March 1918
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This article covers current news and events at the time - March 1918 .
Continuous month: the First World War ; The economic crisis of the last months of the war continued in March 1918 .
Daily events
Friday March 1, 1918
Born:
- João Goulart , President of Brazil 1961 to 1964 († 1976 )
Died
- Harlan Carey Brewster , Canadian politician (* 1870 )
Sunday March 3, 1918
- Brest-Litovsk : the Imperial German Empire and the post-revolutionary Soviet Union agree on the Brest-Litovsk Peace Treaty
Born
- Arthur Kornberg , American biochemist († 2007 )
- Fritz Thiedemann , German show jumper († 2000 )
Tuesday March 5, 1918
- Åland Islands : The islands claimed by Sweden are occupied by German troops.
- Preliminary peace between the Central Powers and Romania
Wednesday March 6, 1918
- Murmansk : With Russia's approval, British troops land at Murmansk to prevent German troops from advancing into Finland .
- At the first ordinary party congress of the Bolsheviks after the seizure of power, the party renames itself the " Communist Party of Russia (Bolsheviks) " and adopts measures for a planned economy .
Thursday March 7, 1918
- Peace and friendship treaty between the German Reich and Finland
Friday March 8, 1918
- The imperial German headquarters is relocated to Spa .
- Duchy of Courland and Zemgale : independence is proclaimed
Sunday March 10, 1918
- Moscow: The Soviet government is moving its seat there
Tuesday March 12, 1918
- Moscow is declared the capital of Russia by Lenin and the seat of government is the Moscow Kremlin
Wednesday March 13, 1918
- Vienna : according to reports from Austrian diplomats, including the consul in Trabzon and Samsun , Dr. Kwatkiowski, this refers to six eastern provinces around Trabzon and Samsun, that most of the one million deportees died . From Adrianople ( Edirne ), Consul Dr. Nadamlenzki did the same for the entire Ottoman Empire, in which 1.5 million had already been deported. The Austrian vicemarashal Joseph Pomiankowski (head of the Austro-Hungarian military mission in Constantinople) estimated the losses among the Armenians at around one million people.
Thursday March 14, 1918
- Trabzon : Peace conference between members of the Transcaucasian Sejm and representatives of the Ottoman Empire begins (until April 14)
Friday March 15, 1918
- March 18th:
- Georgia : The Georgian-South Ossetian conflict, which has lasted about two years, begins.
Tuesday March 19, 1918
- Romania : The Romanian Averescu government resigns, the new government is formed by Alexandru Marghiloman .
Wednesday March 20, 1918
Born
- Marian McPartland , American jazz musician of British origin († 2013 )
- Ilse Petri , German actress († 2018 )
- Bernd Alois Zimmermann , German composer († 1970 )
Thursday March 21, 1918
- The German spring offensive on the western front begins north of St. Quentin (" Operation Michael ").
Friday March 22, 1918
- Berlin: The peace treaty of Brest-Litowsk is ratified in the Reichstag against the votes of the Independent Social Democratic Party of Germany (USPD), the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD) abstains.
- Berlin: The Reichstag adopts the new war loan proposal against the votes of the Independent Social Democrats.
Saturday March 23, 1918
- Paris: Three “ Paris guns ” begin the - militarily useless - bombardment of Paris. By the end of the bombardment on August 8, 1918, around 800 shells were consumed, killing 256 civilians and wounding 620.
Born
- Émile Derlin Henri Zinsou , President of Benin (1968/69) († 2016 )
Monday March 25, 1918
- The Belarusian People's Republic is proclaimed in Minsk .
Died:
- Claude Debussy , French composer (* 1862 )
Tuesday March 26, 1918
- Ferdinand Foch is appointed Generalissimo of the Allied Forces at the Doullens Conference
Wednesday March 27, 1918
- The first battle for Amman begins (through March 31)
Thursday March 28, 1918
- The Czechoslovak legions begin their transport to Vladivostok , from where they are to be embarked on to Western Europe.
Friday March 29, 1918
Died
- Timm Kröger , German writer (* 1844 )
Saturday March 30, 1918
- Baku : Beginning of the pogrom against Azerbaijanis by Bolsheviks and Dashnaks (until April 2nd)
Sunday March 31, 1918
Born
- Ted Post , American director († 2013 )
- Jean-Jacques Siegrist , Swiss historian († 1992 )
Died
- March 31 : Richard Mandl , Austrian composer (* 1859 )
See also
- March (for month name)
- Chronology of the First World War, March 1918
- Nekrolog March 1918 for deaths that month
- List of annually recurring commemorative and action days in March
- Category for commemorative days, holidays or action days in March
Web links
Commons : March 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
- Library of the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung, fes, chronology 1918