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| 1918 October 5 |
| | The new German chancellor, Prince Max of Baden, sends a message to President Wilson requesting an immediate armistice | |
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| 1918 October 5 |
| | The British, under Douglas Haig, break through Germany's heavily defended Hindenburg Line | |
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| 1918 October 30 |
| | An armistice is signed between Turkey and the Allies on the warship Agamemnon in the Greek port of Mudros | |
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| 1918 October 30 |
| | A mutiny in Germany's fleet in Kiel sparks uprisings in several German cities | |
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| 1918 November 7 |
| | Austria-Hungary signs a separate armistice with the Allied powers, in a villa near Padua, without waiting for the Germans | |
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| 1918 November 8 |
| | The Allied commander-in chief, Marshal Foch, meets a German delegation in a railway carriage in the forest of Compiègne to discuss an armistice | |
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| 1918 November 9 |
| | Friedrich Ebert, leader of the Social Democrats, becomes the first chancellor of the newly proclaimed German republic | |
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| 1918 November 9 |
| | The Spartacus League proclaims a rival German republic on soviet lines | |
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| 1918 November 10 |
| | Kaiser Wilhelm II abdicates and goes into exile in the Netherlands | |
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| 1918 November 11 |
| | The Allies and the Germans finally agree the terms of an armistice at 5 a.m. | |
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