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===Undated Events===
 
===Undated Events===
  
*[[:Category:Chronology:Cthulhu Mythos| Cthulhu Mythos]]:* [[Ward, Charles Dexter| Charles Dexter Ward]] learns that he is descended from [[Curwen, Joseph| Joseph Curwen]]. ("The Case of Charles Dexter Ward," H.P. Lovecraft)
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*'''[[:Category:Chronology:Cthulhu Mythos| Cthulhu Mythos]]:''' [[Ward, Charles Dexter| Charles Dexter Ward]] learns that he is descended from [[Curwen, Joseph| Joseph Curwen]]. ("The Case of Charles Dexter Ward," H.P. Lovecraft)
  
 
==Births==
 
==Births==

Revision as of 18:27, 9 November 2005

Contents

Events

Dated Events

  • Real World: January 8. U.S. President Woodrow Wilson announces his so-called "Fourteen Points" for reconstructing Europe after World War I. Few were actually followed.
  • Real World: February 14. The Soviet Union adopts the Gregorian Calendar.
  • Real World: March 3. The Treaty of Brest-Litovsk is signed, ending Russian involvement in World War I.
  • Real World: March 5. The Soviet Union moves its capitol from Petrograd to Moscow.
  • Real World: March 19. The U.S. Congress adopts Daylight Savings Time and time zones.
  • Real World: March 21. Second Battle of the Somme begins.
  • Real World: April 1. The Royal Air Force is formed from the merger of the Royal Flying Corps and the Royal Naval Air Service.
  • Real World: May 15. The U.S. Postal Service initiates the world's first air mail service.
  • Real World: May 16. The U.S. Congress approves the Sedition Act of 1918, making it a crime to use "disloyal, profane, scurrilous, or abusive language" towards the government or armed forces.
  • Real World: July 15. The Second Battle of the Marne begins.
  • Real World: July 16. Bolsheviks execute Czar Nicholas II and his family.
  • Real World: August. A flu pandemic begins that ultimately kills 25 million people.
  • Real World: August 8. In the Battle of Amiens, Canadian and Australian troops begin to significantly push back the German lines.
  • Real World: November 3. Austria-Hungary signs an armistice with the Allies.
  • Real World: November 11. Germany signs an armistice with the Allies. End of World War I.
  • Cthulhu Mythos: *After November 11.* By this time, Thomas Delapore has bought Exham Priory, his family's ancestral home in England. His son Alfred returns from World War I as a maimed invalid; his father halts his plans to restore Exham Priory to care for his son. ("The Rats in the Walls," H.P. Lovecraft)
  • Real World: December 1. Transylvania becomes part of Romania.


Undated Events

Births

Deaths

New Fictional Works

Notable Books

The Gods of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs.

Notable Films

Tarzan of the Apes.


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