October 1918
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This article covers current news and events in October 1918 .
Continuous month: the First World War ; The economic crisis of the last months of the war continued in October 1918 .
Daily events
The newly appointed Chancellor v. Baden, Vice Chancellor v. Payer leaving the Reichstag building
Thursday October 3, 1918
- Bucharest : After the resignation of his father Ferdinand I because of the military defeat in the First World War , Boris III. new tsar in Bulgaria .
- Berlin : Prince Max von Baden becomes German Chancellor . Members of the majority parties in the Reichstag are represented in his government for the first time .
Friday 4th October 1918
- Washington, DC : Notes from the German and Austro-Hungarian governments to US President W. Wilson to explore the terms of a ceasefire
Saturday 5th October 1918
Tuesday, October 8, 1918
- Istanbul: The Ottoman government of Grand Vizier Talât Pascha resigns, followed by that of Ahmed İzzet Pascha .
Thursday October 10, 1918
- London: Sinking of the RMS Leinster ("Royal Mail Steamer") off the Irish coast by the submarine SM UB 123 , 501 dead.
Saturday, October 12, 1918
- Reply of the Reich leadership, the bourgeois government , to the first Wilson note, conditions are accepted.
- Serbian troops liberate Niš .
Died :
- Pierre Gailhard , French opera singer (bass)
- Émile Guimet , French industrialist and explorer
- Hermann Henschel , German inventor
- Bernhard Adalbert Emil Koehne , German botanist and teacher
Monday October 14, 1918
- Washington: The second Wilson note specifies the conditions of a ceasefire, including calls for democratic reforms and an end to the submarine war.
- Paris: The first Czechoslovak government is formed under Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk . (in office until November 14th)
Died :
Wednesday October 16, 1918
- Vienna: People's Manifesto of Charles I, in which he announces a reorganization of the Austro-Hungarian dual monarchy into a federal state.
Died :
Thursday October 24, 1918
- Wilhelmshaven : The German admiralty announces a decisive battle with an order to the entire navy (the so-called fleet order)
Died :
Monday, October 28, 1918
- Berlin: The German Reichstag adopts the October constitution .
- Budapest: aster revolution in Hungary. During the Lánchíd csata (Battle of the Chain Bridge) three people were killed and around 50 to 60 injured.
Tuesday October 29, 2018
The social democrat Karl Renner
Tuesday October 29, 1918
- Wilhelmshaven : Units of the German deep sea fleet refuse to sail.
- Zagreb : The Croatian parliament decides to abolish all constitutional relations between Croatia and the Austro-Hungarian monarchy.
- There the "State of Slovenes, Croats and Serbs" is proclaimed by the National Council (this state only existed until December 1, 1918).
Wednesday October 30, 1918
- Vienna : Provision of the first government (Renner) of “German Austria”. National Assembly
- Limnos / Istanbul: The Moudros armistice , which ended hostilities between the Ottoman Empire and the Entente in the Middle East, was signed by the Turkish Navy Minister Rauf Orbay and the British Admiral Somerset Gough-Calthorpe on board the British Agamemnon . The Ottomans had to give up almost their entire empire with the exception of Anatolia ( Hejaz , Yemen , Syria , Mesopotamia , Tripolitania and Cyrene ). In addition, the Allied occupation of key positions around the Sea of Marmara and control over the Bosporus . It will take effect from midday on October 31.
- The Slovak National Council approves the common state of Czechs and Slovaks.
Thursday October 31, 1918
- Munich: The epidemic flu reached its peak in Bavaria in the last days of October 1918. For all of 1918, the "Statistical Yearbook for the Free State of Bavaria" records 20,321 Bavarian civilians as the cause of death "flu", another 4,424 in the following year, plus many soldiers. Many of the victims of this flu pandemic are also very many whose cause of death is called "pneumonia" : Between 1914 and 1917, mostly 8,000 to 8,500 people per year died of pneumonia in Bavaria. In 1918, however, there were 13,711, over 5,000 more than in previous years. The influenza pandemic of 1918/19 probably killed more than 30,000 people in Bavaria alone. The relatively high proportion of younger women in the death toll is striking.
- Albania : Allied troops take the capital Shkodra . Temporary Austrian occupation of Albania.
- Vienna: The Austro-Hungarian monarchy ends with Hungary's unilateral exit .
See also
- October (for month name)
- Chronology of the First World War, October 1918
- Nekrolog October 1918 for deaths that month
- List of annually recurring commemorative and action days in October
- Category for commemorative days, holidays or action days in October
Web links
Commons : May 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
Individual evidence
- ↑ Stat. Jahrb. Fd Free State of Bavaria 15, 1921, pp. 46–47