This page relates to the year 1918 Gregorian Calendrier.
Events
- January 8th: The president Wilson announces his programme of peace in “Fourteen points”: sovereignty of the Russia, release of the France, autonomous development of the people of the Austria-Hungary, creation of a Company of the Nations. It aims transposing the liberal democracy to the international scales and at sitting the commercial expansion on an international order mutually authorized.
- Rectification of the Italian army to the beginning of the year.
- February: Failure of the negotiation Armand-Revertera.
- February 9th: Peace separated between the Germany and the Ukrainian government with Kiev.
- March 3rd: Peace separated between Lénine and central empires signed with Brest-Litovsk. the Russia gives up the Russian Poland, the Lithuania, the Courlande. It is committed to evacuate the Livonie, the Estonia, recognizing the independence of the Finland and the Ukraine.
- March 18th: The Romania sign a preliminary peace treaty with the central powers with Buftea.
- March-July: Great battle of France.
- March 21st: Beginning of the battle of Picardy. German offensive against the British between Arras and the Fère-in-Tardenois (Luddendorff and Hindenburg).
- March 23rd: Paris is bombarded by the Pariser Kanonen (and not the Grosse Bertha).
- March 25th: Conference of Abbeville between the Haig marshal and the generals Wilson and Foch, prepares the conference of Doullens.
- March 30th: The general Pershing places the American forces at the disposal of Foch.
- Two million American soldiers is sent in Europe starting from April (50 000 victims). This continuous reinforcement (200 000 men per month) shift balance with the profit of the Agreement.
Europe
Portugal
- Création by the dictator Sidónio Feed of a republican nationalist party gathering the republicans of right-hand side.
- October: Flu epidemic, which makes more 100 000 victims.
- December 14th: Assassination of Sidónio Feed. Civil war in north.
- February 6th: Vote for all for the men (21 years) and the women (30 years).
- April 1st: Creation of the Royal Air Force (RAF), fusion of the Royal Flying Body and the Royal Navy Air Service .
- July: First air link between London and Cairo.
- Program of the workers party which promises the introduction of “the collective ownership of the means of production” and “the administration and control by the people of each industry”.
- December 14th: Electoral victory of the coalition of liberals and conservatives carried out by Lloyd George: 478 elected officials (144 liberals, 334 conservatives) vis-a-vis 28 dissenting liberals (Asquith) and 63 members of the Labor Party.
- the 73 nationalist deputies elected officials in Ireland refuse to sit at Westminster in the name of the Home Rule and autoproclament “Parliament of Ireland”. They appoint the chief of the Sinn Féin, Eamon de Valera, like “President of the Republic”.
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1,9 billion £ of budget deficit. It is financed by the interior loan (5,5 billion in 1918), by the realization of the fifth of the investments overseas and by the loan abroad (1,3 billion foreign debt in 1918).
- Six million men has summers mobilized in Great Britain during the conflict, to which the three million provided by the Empire is added. The war made 723 000 victims.
- Plus of four million women works. Unemployment disappeared. The real incomes increased by 25% since 1914.
- 1918 - 1921: laws on education (compulsory schooling at 14 years), on the maternal condition (in order to decrease infant mortality) and on social housing construction.
France
See also: 1918 in France
Italy
- the war made 700 000 died on the Italian side. Areas are devastated, the country is ruined.
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the war with favoured industrial development: the index of the industrial production passes from 54 to 62 between 1914 and 1918 (1938 =100) and the percentage of industry in the product gross private from 25% to 30%. The declared profits of iron and steel industry increase by 6,30 to 16,50%, those of the auto industry from 8 to 30%. FIAT employs 40 000 people against 4000 before the war, the aircraft industry produced 10 000 planes in 1917 -1918, the shipyards built 17 ships for a total of 92 900 tons in 1919 (45 024 in 1914).
Switzerland
Germany
Central Europe & Balkans
- February 11th: Government Alexandru Averescu in Romania.
- April 8th: The Congress of nationalities of the Austria-Hungary is opened with Rome. Those proclaim their will of independence. The the United States give their agreement to the dismantling of Austria-Hungary at the end of May, followed by the Military council of the Agreement, which includes with the goals of war the creation of the Poland, of the Czechoslovakia and the Slavic State of the south.
- April 9th: Parliament of Bessarabia vote in favor of fastening to the Romania.
- March 15th: Government Alexandru Marghiloman (germanophile) in Romania.
- June: Famine in Cisleithanie.
- the October 4th, the Socialist Victor Adler makes vote with the Reichsrat Vienna a resolution which recognizes with all the people of the Austro-Hungarian empire the right to self-determination.
- October 18th: The emperor Charles Ier of Austria announces in a proclamation the transformation of the Austria-Hungary into a Federal state, without touching with the statute of the Hungary.
- October 25th: Three opposition parties, the radical party, the social democrat party and the party of independence of the count Károlyi train in Hungary the National council.
- October 28th: Proclamation of the First Czechoslovakian Republic by the Czech National committee with Prague. Agreement of Pittsburgh signed by Tomáš Masaryk with Slovak emigrants in the United States, guaranteeing to the Slovakia an autonomous statute in future Czechoslovakia.
- October 29th: The Slovenien National council announces his separation with the Austria to form a State with the Croats and the Serb ones.
- October 30th: The Hungarian National council is carried to the capacity by a merry revolution. Beginning of the coalition government of the count Mihály Károlyi in Hungary.
- November 4th: Foundation of the Hungarian Communist party directed by the journalist close to Lénine Béla Kun.
- November 12th: Abdication of Charles Ier of Austria and proclamation of the German republic of Austria. The right to vote is granted to the women in Austria.
- November 13rd: Union of the Montenegro and the Serbia after the deposition of the king Nicolas Ier of Montenegro.
- November 16th:
- Proclamation of the republic of Hungary. The Károlyi government takes radical measures to democratize the country and to reduce the working and country condition.
- Vote for all in Romania.
- November 29th, Proclamation of the kingdom of Serb, the Croats, the Sloveniens (future Yugoslavia).
- With Zagreb, Slovenien leader Mgr Anton Korošec and Serb the Svetozar Pribićević form a committee recognized by all the Slavic ones of Austro-Hungarian monarchy. Under the pressure of Allied (Clemenceau, Wilson), they adopt the declaration of Corfou. In October, the representatives of the various people under Austrian and Hungarian sovereignty meet in Zagreb, organize a provisional government and approve a resolution of union with the Serbia. The November 29th, they proclaim the suspension of the political bonds with Austria.
- February 1st:
- Resolutions of Alba Julia envisaging the union of the Transylvania to the Romania on the basis of democratic State in the borders traced by the Conference of peace. " Large unification" Romania.
- Pierre I {{er}} Karageorgévitch, becomes king of Serb, the Croats and the Sloveniens (future Yugoslavia) under the regency of his son Alexandre of Serbia.
- December 14th: Government Ion I.C. Brătianu in Romania.
- December 24th: The king Ferdinand Ier of Romania promulgates a decree sanctioning the union of Transylvania to the kingdom of Romania.
- December 26th: Working demonstrations with Bucharest. The police force shoots at crowd, making more than one hundred dead and of many casualties.
Poland and Baltic States
- February 13rd: Declaration of independence of the Lithuania, recognized by the Treated of Versailles in 1919.
- February 24th: Declaration of independence of the Estonia. The government Bolshevik is driven out by the Germans.
- February: Rupture of the Polish opinion with the central Empires when those allot to the Ukraine independent the country of Chelm. The legions of the general Józef Haller, which fight at the sides of the Austro-Germans, start to desert. To haul succeeds in gaining France. It receives the command as a chief of the army of volunteers, formed by the Polish National committee, which fights on the French face.
- March 25th: The Bielorussia is proclaimed independent for the first time. Installation of the Belorusse Popular republic.
- November 11th:
- Nomination of Józef Piłsudski as chief of army of Poland.
- the independence of the Estonia is again proclaimed after the capitulation of the Germans.
- November 14th: In Poland, Józef Piłsudski obtains the full powerss of the Council of regency.
- November 18th: Declaration of independence of the Latvia. The troops Bolsheviks seize Rīga and replace the Latvian government moderate by a mode prosovietic. Civil war (1918-1920).
Russia
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During the civil war, the economy crumbles. The currency loses any value and is replaced by a system of exchange in kind, associated with an attempt at economic state intervention, “the Communism of war”. The Communist party exerts a dictatorial power. 13 million victims is due to the war and the famine
Africa
- February: Resignation of the general governor of the French Sudan Joost van Vollenhoven, in dissension with Blaise Diagne, which recommends a levy in masse among the African populations. It will be killed the same year on the face.
- Blaise Diagne, appointed Senegal promoted police chief of the republic for the recruitment of the troops in Black Africa, manages to mobilize 63 000 recruits. In 1918,95 battalions of “Senegalese” riflemen are engaged in Europe, in Africa and the East. 180 000 African soldiers were recruited by the France for the European face between 1914 and 1918. On their return, having learned how to read and acquired knowledge technical and military, they aspire to new employment, which causes the emergence of a new social class among the Blacks.
- June 5th: foundation of the Afrikaner Broederbond with Johannesburg.
Americas
Canada
- March 28th - April 2nd: Beginning of the riots of Quebec. The army makes fire on the demonstrators: four are killed, one counts several casualties; the police force carries out 58 arrests. The government Robert Borden suspends the Habeas corpus.
- May 24th: The women obtain the right to vote with the federal one. The Quebec will be the last of all provinces to give to the women the right to vote in 1940. This right will be given to the women of all the other provinces between 1918 and 1922.
The United States
- Law on the carried out seditious ones.
- April: Introduction of the National War Labor Board (fine the August 12th 1919). It referee of many conflicts between employers and the trade unions.
- May 15th: Installation of an air service between New York, Philadelphia and Washington.
- the socialist leader Eugene Debs is condemned to ten years of prison for “obstruction with recruitment and to enrôlement” in the forces armed following a speech made in June. Condemned again in call in 1919 by the Supreme court, it will be pardoned in 1921.
- August 18th: The company of the Big lake launches a steel ship of 3500 tons.
Latin America
- Mars: Creation of the Mexican working regional Confederation (CROM).
- Revolt Argentinian coed in :
- March 31st: Mass demonstration to Córdoba.
- April 11th: Foundation of the Argentinian university Federation.
- June 21st: The university Federation of Córdoba launches a Proclamation which completely calls into question the operation of the university.
Oceania & the Pacific
Asia
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Mars: Chinese troops cross the Mongolian border with the authorization of the Bogdo Gegen, under pretext of protect the Eastern border against the Soviet Russia. White Russian arrival in Mongolia with the beginning of the year. Movement panmongolist, supported by the Japan and directed by the Atamna Semionov.
- April: Creation of the autonomous Soviet socialist Republic (RSSA) of the Turkestan, attached to the Soviet federative socialist republic (RSFS) of Russia.
- April 4th: Operation of the Japanese army in Siberia against the Soviet Russia.
- May 10th: Sun Yat-SEN, under the pressure of the soldiers, resigns of its functions of chief of the government of Canton (10/05).
- May 15th, Indonesia: First meeting of the Volksraad . Part of the advisers (half, then the third after 1927) is named. The members of the local Councils form the electorate, divided into 1927 in three colleges (Dutch, prone Dutch of foreign origin, Indonésiens). Not very representative, it is purely advisory until in 1925.
- August 3rd: The Chinese government decides the sending of a task force with Vladivostok with the agreement of the Allies.
- Armed conflict enters the Tibet and the China. A truce is concluded in September with the assistance from the British. Efforts are made to arrive at an agreement, but they do not give results.
- October 10th: Xu Shichang, president of the Republic of China.
The Middle East
- February 14th: The French government sends an official letter to Sokolow in which he affirms that “the agreement is complete between the French governments and British with regard to the question of an establishment Juif in Palestine”. The May 9th, it is with the turn of the Italian government to send a letter to Sokolow, which speaks about the formation “of a national center Jew” and mentions the respect of the “political rights” of the nonJewish communities. The president Wilson does not give an opinion officially.
- February: Conference of Trébizonde (fine the May 31st): a delegation transcaucasienne chaired by Géorgien Tchenkeli meets the Turks. She refuses to recognize the Traité of Brest-Litovsk.
- March 3rd: Peace separated between Lénine and central empires signed with Brest-Litovsk: the Russia will evacuate the provinces of Anatolia Eastern to restore them with the Turkey. Ardahan, Kars and Batoum will be also evacuated by the Russian troops.
- March 12th: The Othomans take again Erbuzum and perpetrate new massacres of Armenians. After three battles (Karakilissé, Sarbarabed and Bach Abaran), the Armenian forces block the Turkish advance on Erivan.
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the war deeply influenced the Egyptian company. Close to 70 000 Egyptians took part in British military operations in the the Sinai, in Palestine and Mésopotamie. Hundreds of thousands of Egyptians have summers recruited by drudgery to take part in necessary works with the war (earthwork, fortification, railroad, etc). This puncture, which also touched the agricultural livestock, weighed on the farming community. Tens of thousands of families are ruined with left the war. On the other hand, the military orders allowed a beginning of industrialization and an enrichment of part of the middle-class.
Arts & culture
See also: 1918 with the cinema, 1918 in music, 1918 in literature, 1918 with the theater, 1918 as a cartoon, 1918 on television
Beautiful arts
- January 23rd: Exposure Matisse and Picasso to Paris.
- August: Chagall takes the direction of the school of painting of Vitebsk.
- September: Art nouveau , exposure Hobby-horse to Zurich, with Hans Arp, Otto Morach and Hans Richter.
Bullfighting
Sciences & technology
Sports
Births in 1918
January
February
March
April
May
June
July
August
September
October
November
December
Death in 1918
- January 9th: Emile Reynaud, inventor of the cartoon (° December 8th 1844)
- February 6th: Gustav Klimt, Austrian painter (° July 14th geologist]] [[the United States|states-unien]]
* [[June 19th]]: [[Francesco Baracca]], [[List of the aces of aviation|ace of aviation]] Italian. (° [[May 9th]] [[1888]], 30 years).
* [[July 17th]]: [[Nicolas II of Russia]] and its family.
* [[August 24th]]: [[Henriette Moriamé]], resistant Frenchwoman at the time of [[First World War]]
* [[September 28th]]: [[Georg Simmel]], philosopher and German sociologist
* [[October 2nd]]: [[Emile Moselly]], French regionalistic writer, price [[Goncourt]] [[1907]]
* [[October 5th]]: [[Roland Garros]], pioneer of French aviation (° [[October 6th]] [[1988]])
* [[October 7th]]: [[Raymond Duchamp-Villon]], French sculptor
* [[October 26th]]: [[César Ritz]], hotel and Swiss contractor
* [[October 31st]]: [[Egon Schiele]], Austrian painter (° [[1890]])
* [[November 3rd]]: [[Alexandre Liapounov]], Russian mathematician (° [[June 6th]] [[1857]])
* [[November 9th]]: [[Guillaume Apollinaire]], French poet (° [[August 26th]] [[1880]])
* [[December 2nd]]: [[Edmond Rostand]], writer (° {{April 1st}} [[1868]])
* [[Arthur Cravan]]: writer and boxer of origin [[the United Kingdom|British]]
* [[Nicolas Rouszki]], general Russian shot by [[Tcheka]]
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