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  • Alba Iulia, Romania
    Sunday Dec 1, 1918
    Hungarian–Romanian War

    Union of Transylvania With Romania

    Alba Iulia, Romania
    Sunday Dec 1, 1918

    On 1 December, the Union of Transylvania with Romania was officiated by the elected representatives of the Romanian people of Transylvania, who proclaimed a union with Romania. Later the Transylvanian Saxons and Banat Swabians also supported the union.




  • Mureș River, Romania
    Dec, 1918
    Hungarian–Romanian War

    Reaching The Line of The Maros (Mureş) River

    Mureș River, Romania
    Dec, 1918

    Later, Romanian units reached the line of the Maros (Mureş) River. This was a demarcation line agreed upon by the representatives of the Allied powers and Hungary at the Armistice of Belgrade. At the same time units of the German army, under the command of Marshal August von Mackensen, retreated to the west.




  • France
    Sunday Dec 1, 1918
    Charles de Gaulle

    De Gaulle returned to his father's house after the war

    France
    Sunday Dec 1, 1918

    On 1 December 1918, three weeks later, he returned to his father's house in the Dordogne to be reunited with his three brothers, who had all served in the army and survived the war.




  • U.S.
    Dec, 1918
    Spanish Flu

    Officials start Education Programs in U.S.

    U.S.
    Dec, 1918

    Public health officials start instruction projects and exposure about perils of hacking and wheezing; thoughtless removal of "nasal releases."




  • Turkey (then Ottoman Empire)
    Thursday Dec 5, 1918
    Armenian Genocide

    Lt. Hasan Maruf

    Turkey (then Ottoman Empire)
    Thursday Dec 5, 1918

    Lt. Hasan Maruf of the Ottoman army describes how a population of a village were taken all together and then burned. The Commander of the Third Army Vehib's 12-page affidavit, which was dated 5 December 1918, was presented in the Trebizond (Trabzon) trial series (29 March 1919) included in the Key Indictment, reporting such a mass burning of the population of an entire village near Muş: "The shortest method for disposing of the women and children concentrated in the various camps was to burn them".




  • Stockholm, Swedan
    Tuesday Dec 10, 1918
    Max Planck

    The Nobel Prize

    Stockholm, Swedan
    Tuesday Dec 10, 1918

    The discovery of Planck's constant enabled him to define a new universal set of physical units (such as the Planck length and the Planck mass), all based on fundamental physical constants upon which much of quantum theory is based. In recognition of Planck's fundamental contribution to a new branch of physics, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics for 1918 (he actually received the award in 1919).




  • Berlin
    Thursday Dec 12, 1918
    Treaty of Versailles

    Germany was occupied

    Berlin
    Thursday Dec 12, 1918

    In late 1918, Allied troops entered Germany and began the occupation.


  • Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany
    Friday Dec 13, 1918
    Treaty of Versailles

    Rhineland was occupated

    Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany
    Friday Dec 13, 1918

    In late 1918, American, Belgian, British, and French troops entered the Rhineland to enforce the armistice. Before the treaty, the occupation force stood at roughly 740,000 men.


  • Ireland
    Saturday Dec 14, 1918
    Irish War of Independence

    The Republican party Sinn Féin won a landslide victory in Ireland

    Ireland
    Saturday Dec 14, 1918

    In the December 1918 election, the republican party Sinn Féin won a landslide victory in Ireland.


  • London, England, United Kingdom
    Saturday Dec 14, 1918
    Winston Churchill

    Lloyd George called a general election with voting

    London, England, United Kingdom
    Saturday Dec 14, 1918

    With the war over, Lloyd George called a general election with voting on Saturday, 14 December 1918.


  • Germany
    Wednesday Dec 18, 1918
    Heinrich Himmler

    Discharged

    Germany
    Wednesday Dec 18, 1918

    In November 1918, while Himmler was still in training, the war ended with Germany's defeat, denying him the opportunity to become an officer or see combat. After his discharge on 18 December, he returned to Landshut. After the war, Himmler completed his grammar-school education.


  • Turkey (then Ottoman Empire)
    Saturday Dec 21, 1918
    Armenian Genocide

    Trabzon

    Turkey (then Ottoman Empire)
    Saturday Dec 21, 1918

    Trabzon was the main city in Trabzon province; Oscar S. Heizer, the American consul at Trabzon, reported: "This plan did not suit Nail Bey ... Many of the children were loaded into boats and taken out to sea and thrown overboard". Hafiz Mehmet, a Turkish deputy serving Trabzon, testified during a 21 December 1918 parliamentary session of the Chamber of Deputies that "the district's governor loaded the Armenians into barges and had them thrown overboard".


  • Cluj-Napoca (Kolozsvár), Romania
    Tuesday Dec 24, 1918
    Hungarian–Romanian War

    Entering Kolozsvár

    Cluj-Napoca (Kolozsvár), Romania
    Tuesday Dec 24, 1918

    On 24 December, units of the Romanian Army entered Kolozsvár.


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