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The British, under Douglas Haig, break through Germany's heavily defended Hindenburg Line
An armistice is signed between Turkey and the Allies on the warship Agamemnon in the Greek port of Mudros
A mutiny in Germany's fleet in Kiel sparks uprisings in several German cities
Austria-Hungary signs a separate armistice with the Allied powers, in a villa near Padua, without waiting for the Germans
The Allied commander-in chief, Marshal Foch, meets a German delegation in a railway carriage in the forest of Compiègne to discuss an armistice
Friedrich Ebert, leader of the Social Democrats, becomes the first chancellor of the newly proclaimed German republic
The Spartacus League proclaims a rival German republic on soviet lines
Kaiser Wilhelm II abdicates and goes into exile in the Netherlands
The Allies and the Germans finally agree the terms of an armistice at 5 a.m.
The war ends with the official cessation of hostilities at 11 a.m., the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month
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
With the end of the Habsburg empire, German-speaking Austrians declare their own much smaller territory to be an independent republic
The new nation of Czechoslovakia is established from within Austria-Hungary, with Tomas Masaryk as its first president
Prime minister Mihaly Karolyi proclaims the republic of Hungary, after the demise of Austria-Hungary
Paul von Lettow-Vorbeck, commander of the German army in East Africa, surrenders after four stubborn years of resistance
Serbia, Slovenia, Croatia and Montenegro merge as the new Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes, with the Serbian Peter I as king
The Great War has resulted in some 8 million dead in the armed forces of the rival nations
Approximately 7 million civilians are calculated to have died as a direct result of the four years of world war
Emmy Noether, regarded now as the greatest female mathematician, publishes her proof of of the first of several theorems known by her name
The Sinn Fein members elected to Westminster establish their own parliament in Dublin, the Dáil Eireann (Assembly of Ireland), soon declared illegal by Britain
Hitler returns to Munich and in the prevailing mood of post-defeat resentment begins to take an interest in extremist politics
Composer and pianist Ignacy Jan Paderewski becomes prime minister of the newly independent Poland
The armed supporters of Sinn Fein become the IRA, or Irish Republican Army, in Ireland's war of independence
Quia Pauper Amavi contains the first three of Ezra Pound's eventually more than 100 cantos
Michael Collins springs de Valera from Lincoln gaol, with the help of a duplicate key
