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  • Ireland
    Apr, 1918
    Irish War of Independence

    The Conscription Crisis

    Ireland
    Apr, 1918

    This further alienated Irish nationalists and produced mass demonstrations during the Conscription Crisis of 1918. In the 1918 general election Irish voters showed their disapproval of British policy by giving Sinn Féin 70% (73 seats out of 105) of Irish seats, 25 of these uncontested.




  • U.S.
    Apr, 1918
    Spanish Flu

    Over 4 million soldiers

    U.S.
    Apr, 1918

    Before the finish of World War I, the U.S. military developed in size from 378,000 warriors in April 1918 to 4.7 million soldiers.




  • Kansas, U.S.
    Friday Apr 5, 1918
    Spanish Flu

    First public Health Report

    Kansas, U.S.
    Friday Apr 5, 1918

    The first mention of influenza was reported in a weekly public health report. The report had 18 severe cases and death tally of three in Haskell, Kansas.




  • Ireland
    Monday Apr 8, 1918
    Irish War of Independence

    The Report of the Irish Convention

    Ireland
    Monday Apr 8, 1918

    In April 1918, the British Cabinet, in the face of the crisis caused by the German Spring Offensive, attempted with a dual policy to simultaneously link the enactment of conscription into Ireland with the implementation of Home Rule, as outlined in the report of the Irish Convention of 8 April 1918.




  • Moldova (Then Bessarabia)
    Tuesday Apr 9, 1918
    Hungarian–Romanian War

    Signing The Union of Bessarabia with Romania

    Moldova (Then Bessarabia)
    Tuesday Apr 9, 1918

    The Union of Bessarabia with Romania was signed on 9 April 1918. The unification act that brought these lands within the modern Romanian state was not recognized by Bolshevik Soviet Russia, but it was occupied with fighting the White movement, Poland and the Ukraine in its war for independence, and resources were not available to challenge Romania.




  • Harlem, New York, U.S.
    Apr, 1918
    Marcus Garvey

    Negro World

    Harlem, New York, U.S.
    Apr, 1918

    In April, Garvey launched a weekly newspaper, the Negro World, which Cronon later noted remained "the personal propaganda organ of its founder".




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