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| 1917 March 11 |
| | | Crowds demonstrating in Petrograd are fired on after tsar Nicholas II sanctions the use of force | |
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| 1917 March 15 |
| | | With his capital city in the hands of rebels, tsar Nicholas II abdicates | |
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| 1918 July 17 |
| | | Tsar Nicholas II and his wife and children are murdered by the Bolsheviks at Ekaterinburg | |
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| 1918 October 4 |
| | | The Kaiser appoints a new chancellor, Prince Max von Baden, to negotiate an end to the war | |
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| 1918 November 10 |
| | | Kaiser Wilhelm II abdicates and goes into exile in the Netherlands | |
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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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| 1920 |
| | | A national congress in Damascus proclaims Faisal king of an independent Syria | |
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| 1920 |
| | | French intervention in Syria forces Faisal off the throne and out of the country | |
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| 1921 |
| | | Abdullah ibn Hussein, of the Hashemite family, becomes emir of the new province of Transjordan | |
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| 1921 |
| | | Faisal, having lost Syria, is given the throne in the British mandated territory of Iraq | |
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