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Prior to the uprising, the Ukrainian National Council was established on 18 October 1918. The Council sought Austro-Hungarian support in establishing a Ukrainian administration within Austria-Hungary, [ 1 ] and formally declared itself as such on 20 October 1918 with the blessing of Ukrainian Greek Catholic Metropolitan Andrey Sheptytsky .
1918 was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Monday of the Julian calendar, the 1918th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 918th year of the 2nd millennium, the 18th year of the 20th century, and the 9th year of the 1910s decade. As of the start of 1918, the ...
12 Aug 1918 Monash was made a Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath by King George V in the field. A British monarch had done this for the first time in 200 years. Australian Alfred Gaby earned himself a Victoria’s Cross for his actions on 08 Aug 1918. Albert was acting as commander when the advance was checked by a large German force ...
In November 1918, after seizing power in Siberia, Admiral Alexander Kolchak pursued a policy of persecuting revolutionaries as well as socialists of several factions. Kolchak's government issued a broadly worded decree on December 3, 1918, revising articles of the criminal code of Imperial Russia "in order to preserve the system and rule of the ...
October 13, 1918 (Sunday) The League of Free Nations Association and the League of Nations Society merged to form the League of Nations Union to promote a new system of international relations, human rights and world peace through disarmament. [83] The Republic of Zakopane was established in Zakopane, Galicia.
World War I[ j ] or the First World War (28 July 1914 – 11 November 1918), also known as the Great War, was a global conflict between two coalitions: the Allies (or Entente) and the Central Powers. Fighting took place mainly in Europe and the Middle East, as well as in parts of Africa and the Asia-Pacific, and in Europe was characterised by ...
On 5 December 1918, the National Guards (an armed force of the National Council of the State of Slovenes, Croats and Serbs) and Sokol volunteers suppressed a protest and engaged in an armed clash against the soldiers of the 25th Regiment of the Royal Croatian Home Guard and the 53rd Regiment of the former Austro-Hungarian Common Army on 5 December 1918, four days after the proclamation of the ...
National Liberal. The 1918 United Kingdom general election was called immediately after the Armistice with Germany which ended the First World War, and was held on Saturday, 14 December 1918. The governing coalition, under Prime Minister David Lloyd George, sent letters of endorsement to candidates who supported the coalition government.