1918

• Jan. 8

  President Wilson's fourteen points.

• Jan. 20

  Breslau sunk Goeben damaged.

• Feb. 1

  Germany recognized Ukraine.

• Feb. 9

  Ukraine peace of Brest-Litovsk.

• Feb. 18

  German invasion of Russia.

  

• Feb. 21

  British capture Jericho.

• Feb. 24

  Turks recover Trebizond.

• Feb. 25

  Germans at Reval.

• March 3

  Russian peace of Brest-Litovsk.

• March 7

  German peace with Finland.

• March 11

  Turks recover Erazerum.

• March 13

  Germans at Odessa.

• March 14

  Brest-Litovsk treaty ratified at Moscow.

• March 21

  German offensive in France.

• March 23

  First long-distance bombardment of Paris.

• March 24

  Bapaume and Péronne lost.

• March 28

  General Foch made allied Generalissimo.

• April 5

  Allied landing at Vladivostok.

• April 11

  Armentiènes lost.

• April 13

  Turks occupied Batum.

• April 22

  Naval raid on Zeebrugge and Ostend.

• April 24

  Battle for Amiens.

• April 20

  Kemmel Hill lost.

• April 27

  Turks occupied Kars.

• April 30

  Germans at Viborg.

• May 1

  Germans at Sebastopol.

• May 7

  Rumanian peace of Bucharest.

• May 9

  Second raid on Ostend.

• May 27

  Second German offensive.

• May 29

  Soissons lost; Rheims held.

• May 31

  Germans reach Marne.

• June 1

  Attacks toward Paris held.

• June 9

  New German assault.

• June 15

  Austrian offensive in Italy.

• June 23

  Great Austrian defeat.

• July 2

  One million Americans are in France.

• July 15

  Last German offensive. Second Marne battle begun.

• July 16

  Ex-Czar shot at Ekaterinburg.

• July 18

  General Foch's counterattack. Victorious Franco-American offensive on the Marne and Aisne.

• July 20

  Germans recrossed the Marne.

• Aug. 2

  Soissons recovered.

• Aug. 8

  British attack at Amiens.

• Aug. 29

  Bapaume and Noyon regained.

• Sept. 1

  Péronne recovered.

• Sept. 2

  Drocourt-Quéant line breached.

• Sept. 12

  American attack at St. Mihiel.

• Sept. 15

  Austrian peace note.

• Sept. 17

  New Macedonian offensive.

• Sept. 25

  Bulgaria proposed armistice.

• Sept. 27

  Hindenburg line broken.

• Sept. 29

  Bulgaria surrendered.

• Sept. 30

  Fall of Damascus. Chancellor Hertling resigns.

• Oct. 1

  St. Quentin regained.

• Oct. 4

  Abdication of King Ferdinand.

• Oct. 9

  Cambral regained.

• Oct. 13

  French recovered Laon.

• Oct. 14

  British troops at Irkutsk.

• Oct. 15

  British in Homs.

• Oct. 17

  Ostend, Lille, Douai regained.

• Oct. 19

  Bruges reoccupied.

• Oct. 20

  Belgian coast clear.

• Oct. 25

  Ludendorff resigned.

• Oct. 26

  Aleppo fell to the Allies.

• Oct. 27

  Austria sued for peace.

• Oct. 28

  Italians crossed Plave.

• Oct. 29

  Serbians reached the Danube.

• Oct. 30

  Turkey granted armistice.

• Nov. 1

  Versailles Conference opened.

• Nov. 2

  British at Valenciennes.

• Nov. 3

  Austria surrenders. Kiel mutiny.

• Nov. 4

  Versailles armistice agreement.

• Nov. 5

  Armistice powers for Marshal Foch. Mr. Wilson's last note to Germany.

• Nov. 6

  Americans reach Sedan.

• Nov. 7

  Bavarian Republic proclaimed.

• Nov. 9

  Foch received German envoys. Abdication of the Kaiser. Chancellor Prince Max resigned. Berlin revolution.

• Nov. 10

  Kaiser's flight to Holland. British at Mons.

• Nov. 11

  Armistice terms accepted by Germany.

• Nov. 28

  Kaiser abdicated.

Excerpted from The War of the Nations: Portfolio of Rotogravure Etchings, 526-27.