42 events found for 1918
The Left SR uprising in Russia starts with the assassination of German ambassador Wilhelm von Mirbach by Cheka members.
In Nashville, Tennessee, an inbound local train collides with an outbound express, killing 101 and injuring 171…
The Imperial Japanese Navy battleship Kawachi blows up at Shunan, western Honshu, Japan, killing at least 621.
World War I: The Second Battle of the Marne begins near the River Marne with a German attack.
Tsar Nicholas II of Russia and his immediate family and retainers are executed by Bolshevik Chekists at the Ipatiev…
The RMS Carpathia is sunk off Ireland by the German SM U-55; five lives are lost.
Emmy Noether's paper, which became known as Noether's theorem was presented at Göttingen, Germany, from which…
The first general strike in Canadian history takes place in Vancouver.
World War I: The Battle of Amiens begins a string of almost continuous Allied victories with a push through the German…
Women enlist in the United States Marine Corps for the first time. Opha May Johnson is the first woman to enlist.
Bayerische Motoren Werke AG (BMW) is established as a public company in Germany.
The Battle of Lake Baikal was fought between the Czechoslovak Legion and the Red Army.
The Battle of Lake Baikal is fought between the Czechoslovak Legion and the Red Army.
Bolshevik revolutionary leader Moisei Uritsky is assassinated.
World War I: The Second Battle of the Somme begins.
Mexican Revolution: Battle of Ambos Nogales: U.S. Army forces skirmish against Mexican Carrancistas as part of the…
World War I: Bapaume taken by the New Zealand Division in the Hundred Days Offensive.
Fanni Kaplan shoots and seriously injures Bolshevik leader Vladimir Lenin, which, along with the assassination of…
World War I: Start of the Battle of Mont Saint-Quentin, a successful assault by the Australian Corps during the…