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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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| 1918 November 11 |
| | | The war ends with the official cessation of hostilities at 11 a.m., the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month | |
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| 1918 November 13 |
| | | The deposition of the emperor Charles I by the Austrian government brings to a formal end the empire of Austria-Hungary and more than six centuries of Habsburg rule | |
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| 1918 November 13 |
| | | With the end of the Habsburg empire, German-speaking Austrians declare their own much smaller territory to be an independent republic | |
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| 1918 November 14 |
| | | The new nation of Czechoslovakia is established from within Austria-Hungary, with Tomas Masaryk as its first president | |
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