April 1918
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This article covers current news and events at the time - April 1918 .
Continuous month: the First World War ; The economic crisis of the last months of the war continued in April 1918 .
Daily events
Monday April 1, 1918
- London: The Royal Air Force is formed by the merger of the Royal Flying Corps with the Royal Naval Air Service .
Friday April 5, 1918
- Trabzon : The Ottoman delegation gives the Transcaucasian representatives an ultimatum to recognize the border demarcation in the Caucasus in accordance with the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk.
- Tonga : Enthronement of Queen Salote Tupou III.
Saturday April 6, 1918
- Adelaide : Elections to the parliament of the state of South Australia in Australia
- Tampere : is captured by German-Finnish troops
Sunday 7th April 1918
![](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/dc/British_55th_Division_gas_casualties_10_April_1918.jpg/130px-British_55th_Division_gas_casualties_10_April_1918.jpg)
British gas victims during the Fourth Flandernschl. , April 10, 1918
Tuesday April 9, 1918
- The second part of the German spring offensive, Operation Georgette , the Fourth Battle of Flanders, begins.
Saturday April 13, 1918
- Helsinki : captured by German-Finnish troops
Sunday April 14, 1918
Sunday April 28, 1918
- General parliamentary elections after his coup / boycott of this election:
- Sidónio Pais is elected President of Portugal by referendum.
Tuesday April 30, 1918
- Tashkent : The Autonomous Soviet Republic of Turkestan (ASR) is proclaimed.
See also
- April (for month name)
- Chronology of the First World War, April 1918
- Nekrolog April 1918 for deaths that month
- List of annually recurring days of remembrance and action in April
- Category for commemorative days, public holidays or days of action in April
Web links
Commons : April 1918 - Collection of Pictures, Videos and Audio Files
- Chronicle 1918 (Living virtual museum online at dhm.de)
- Digitized newspapers from 1918 in the newspaper information system (ZEFYS) of the Berlin State Library