1918 |
| 1 February |
Austrian navy mutinies at Cattaro. |
| 9 February |
Germans signs separate peace with Ukraine. |
| 16 February |
Trotsky ends negotiations, declares 'Neither war nor peace'. |
| 19 February |
Germans advance to within 80 miles of Petrograd |
| 3 March |
Treaty of Brest-Litovsk; Russia leaves the war |
| 21 March |
German operation Michael offensive begins in Picardy. |
| 26 March |
Foch appointed to co-ordinate Allied operations on Western Front. |
| 9 April |
German Georgette offensive begins in Flanders |
| 27 May |
German Blucher offensive begins on the Aisne. |
| 9 June |
Start of German Gneisenau offensive. |
| 15 July |
Last German offensive begins near Rheims. |
| 18 July |
Allied counterstroke on the Marne. |
| 8 August |
Battle of Amiens begins. |
| 14 September |
Final Allied offensive starts in Macedonia with battle of the river Vardar; mutinies break out in Bulgarian army. |
| 19 September |
Allenby fights and wins battle of Megiddo; RAF aircraft destroy the Turkish 7th Army in defiles of Wadi Far. See Related reading: Megiddo 1918: The last great cavalry victory (Campaign 61) |
| 23 September |
British capture Acre and Haifa. |
| 26 September |
Start of FrancoAmerican offensive in Meuse Argonne sector; Bulgaria seeks peace terms as mutinous troops march on Sofia to declare a republic. |
| 28 September |
Start of Allied offensive in Flanders.. |
| 29 September |
British, Australian and American troops open main offensive on Hindenburg Line; Bulgaria signs armistice after talks at Salonika |
| 1 October |
Allenby and Lawrence arrive simultaneously at Damascus. |
| 24 October |
Allies attack on wide front and win battle of Vittorio Veneto, followed by rout of Austrian army with mass desertions of Czech, Serb, Croat and Polish troops. |
| 26 October |
General Ludendorff resigns. |
| 30 October |
Ottoman Empire sues for peace. |
| 3 November |
Austria-Hungary signs armistice. |
