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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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| 1918 November 16 |
| | Prime minister Mihaly Karolyi proclaims the republic of Hungary, after the demise of Austria-Hungary | |
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| 1918 November 23 |
| | Paul von Lettow-Vorbeck, commander of the German army in East Africa, surrenders after four stubborn years of resistance | |
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| 1918 December 1 |
| | Serbia, Slovenia, Croatia and Montenegro merge as the new Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes, with the Serbian Peter I as king | |
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| 1914-1918 |
| | The Great War has resulted in some 8 million dead in the armed forces of the rival nations | |
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| 1914-1918 |
| | Approximately 7 million civilians are calculated to have died as a direct result of the four years of world war | |
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| 1919 January 4 |
| | Finland wins freedom from Russia and becomes an independent republic | |
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| 1919 |
| | Composer and pianist Ignacy Jan Paderewski becomes prime minister of the newly independent Poland | |
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| 1919 |
| | The Sinn Fein members elected to Westminster establish their own parliament in Dublin, the Dáil Eireann (Assembly of Ireland), soon declared illegal by Britain | |
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| 1919 |
| | The armed supporters of Sinn Fein become the IRA, or Irish Republican Army, in Ireland's war of independence | |
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| 1919 |
| | Quia Pauper Amavi contains the first three of Ezra Pound's eventually more than 100 cantos | |
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| 1919 |
| | Michael Collins springs de Valera from Lincoln gaol, with the help of a duplicate key | |
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| 1919 |
| | Returning from active service with the Royal Navy, Erskine Childers devotes his energies to Sinn Fein and Irish independence | |
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| 1919 |
| | Mussolini founds the Fasci di Combattimento, dedicated to opposing the Socialist party | |
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| 1919 |
| | Edward Elgar completes his last great work, the Cello Concerto in E minor | |
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| 1919 |
| | More than 300 die when British troops fire on a peaceful demonstration in Amritsar | |
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| 1919 |
| | H.L. Mencken's The American Language traces the gradual evolution of American from English | |
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| 1919 |
| | The Swiss theologian Karl Barth publishes his influential Commentary on Romans, taking St Paul's epistle as his text | |
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| 1919 |
| | The Soviet system of Gulag slave labour camps is introduced, under the control of the secret service, the Cheka | |
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| 1919 |
| | Music-hall artist Harry Lauder is knighted for his wartime performances entertaining troops at the front | |
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