1918
January
8- President Wilson outlines his Fourteen Points Peace Plan
February
18- Fighting between Russia and Germany resumes
21- British capture Jericho
March
3- Treaty of Brest-Litovsk signed by Russia and Germany
21- German breakthrough on the Somme
23- Artillery bombardment of Paris begins; ends 8/17/18
29- Foch becomes supreme Allied commander on the Western Front
April
9- German Lys offensive in Flanders
23- Zeebrugge/Ostend Raid
May
7- Treaty of Bucharest
27- 6/6/18- German Aisne offensive
28- Battle of Cantigny
June
1- U.S. troops drive back Germans at Chateau-Thierry
9-13- Germans launch Noyon-Montdidier offensive
15-22- Italians repulse Austrian attack across the Piave
July
13- Turkish army launches final offensive in Palestine
15-18- Second Battle of the Marne; German retreat begins
July
18- 8/5/18- Allied Aisne-Marne offensive (Belleau Wood)
August
8 - Allied Amiens offensive
18- British advance in Flanders begins
September
12-16- American offensive at St. Mihiel
15-29- Allied offensive against Bulgarians
19-21- Battle of Megiddo
25- Bulgaria seeks armistice
26- Foch begins final offensive on Western Front; first phase of the U.S. Meuse-Argonne Offensive, through 9/30/18
29- Bulgaria concludes armistice
October
1- British troops enter Damascus; Second phase, U.S. Meuse-Argonne Offensive, through 10/6/18
5- British troops breach the Hindenburg Line
6- Germany requests armistice
9- Allies sieze Cambrai
7-31- Third through Fifth Phases, Meuse-Argonne Offensive
20- Germany abandons submarine warfare
26- Groener replaces Ludendorff
29- German High Seas Fleet mutinies; Battle of Vittorio Veneto - ends 11/4/18
November
1-11- Second Operation of the U.S. Meuse Argonne Offensive
3- Austria-Hungary makes peace
4- Armistice concluded on the Italian Front
9- Kaiser Wilhelm Abdicates; German Republic proclaimed
10- Emperor Charles of Austria abdicates
11- Germany signs armistice. Fighting ends on the Western Front, but continues in other theaters of war
12- Austria proclaimed a republic
13- Hungary signs Armistice
14- Czechoslovakia proclaimed a republic, Lettow-Vorbeck surrenders in Rhodesia, German U-boats interned
21- German High Seas Fleet surrenders to Britain
27- Germans evacuate Belgium
December
1- Yugoslavia proclaimed an independent state