1918

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Events of 1918

January

February

  • February 1 - Russia switches from the Julian calendar to the Gregorian calendar, date skips to February 14.
  • February 16 - The Council of Lithuania adopts an "Act of Independence of Lithuania", declaring Lithuania's independence from Russia.
  • February 24 - Estonia declares itself a sovereign and independent republic. Tallinn (Reval), the capital of the country, is occupied by German forces the next day. Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Georgia also declare their independence from the Russia calling themselves the Transcaucasian Democratic Federal Republic.

March

  • March 1 - German submarine U 19 sinks HMS Calgarian off Rathlin Island, Northern Ireland.
  • March 3 - World War I: Germany, Austria and Bolshevist Russia sign the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk ending Russia's involvement in the war.
  • March 4 - A soldier at Camp Fuston, Kansas falls sick with the first confirmed case of the Spanish Flu.
  • March 5 - The Soviet Russia moves its national capital from Petrograd to Moscow
  • March 6 - Finnish Air Force founded. The blue swastika is adopted as its tail symbol as a tribute to the Swedish explorer and aviator Eric von Rosen who donated the first plane. Von Rosen had painted the Buddhist symbol on the plane as his personal lucky insignia.
  • March 7 - World War I: Finland forms an alliance with Germany.
  • March 12 – Moscow becomes the capital of Soviet Russia.
  • March 19 - The U.S. Congress establishes time zones and approves daylight saving time (DST went into effect on March 31).
  • March 21 - World War I: Second Battle of the Somme begins in France.
  • March 23 -
  • March 25 - for the first time White Russia declares independence.

April

  • April 1 - The army's Royal Flying Corps and the Royal Naval Air Service are merged to form the British Royal Air Force.
  • April 12 -The United Baltic Duchy declared in Riga constituting the duchies of Estonia, Livonia, and Kurland.

May

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September

October

November

December

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