1918

7]: Year in Review 20th Century

19th century - 20th century - 21st century

Decades: 1890s - 1900s - 1910s - 1920s - 1930s - 1940s - 1950s - 1960s - 1970s - 1980s - 1990s - 2000s

1913 1914 1915 1916 1917 1918 1919 1920 1921 1922 1923

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World Events -

• World War I ends.
• Poland gains its independence.
• Iceland becomes an independent state, under the Danish crown, with foreign affairs handled by Denmark.
• Russia adopts the Gregorian calendar, which has the bizarre consequence that the anniversary of the Russian Revolution, previously October, now falls in November.
• Change of emperor of the Ottoman Empire from [Mehmed V]? (Resad) (1909-1918) to [Mehmed VI]? (Vahdettin) (1918-1922)
• August - Influenza? pandemic begins, over twenty-five million people die in the following six months (three times as many as died during the war).

Births -

• December 11 - Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Russian writer
• Frederic Sanger (molecular biologist)

Nobel Prizes

• Physics - Max Karl Ernst Ludwig Planck
• Chemistry - [Fritz Haber]?
• Medicine - not awarded
• Literature - - not awarded
• Peace - not awarded