1918
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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.
- World-as-Myth, Future History: November 4. Corporal Theodore Bronson (aka Lazarus Long) is reported missing in action in France. (Time Enough for Love)
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" by H.P. Lovecraft)
Real World December 1. Transylvania becomes part of Romania.
Undated Events
- Cthulhu Mythos: Charles Dexter Ward learns that he is descended from Joseph Curwen. ("The Case of Charles Dexter Ward" by H.P. Lovecraft)
- Gargoyles, Gargoyles: The Goliath Chronicles: Obsidiana and Zafiro are born. (Ask Greg)
New Fictional Works
Notable Books
The Gods of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs.
Notable Films
Tarzan of the Apes.
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