World War I 1918

  • British forces captured Albert

  • Canadian troops broke through the Hindenburg Line.

  • New Zealand troops occupied Baupanne.

  • Australian forces occupied Péronne. Canadian troops continued their advance past the Hindenburg Line.

  • 1,476 Allied aircraft supported an US attack at St. Mihiel.

  • US forces occupy St. Mihiel.

  • Turkish forces collapsed at Megiddo

  • French and American forces started an offensive against German positions at Argonne.

  • New British offensive started

  • Fourth Battle of Ypres started.

  • Luderndorff asked for an immediate armistice.

  • Damascus taken by Australian and Arab forces.

  • Germany asked the Allies for an armistice based on Woodrow Wilson’s ‘Fourteen Points’.

  • British troops advanced to the last line of trenches in the Hindenburg Line.

  • French troops occupied Laon.

  • German troops started to abandon the Belgian coastline.

  • British troops occupied Lille. Belgian troops reoccupied Ostend

  • Zeebruge occupied by the British.

  • Start of the Battle of Vittorio Veneto.

  • Luderndorff dismissed by Wilhelm II.

  • The German Army experienced mutinies in certain sectors.

  • Turkey made peace with the Allies. The Italians captured Vittorio Veneto.

  • A major French-US offensive started in the Aisne-Meuse sector.

  • Austria-Hungary signed an armistice with Italy. A mutiny occurred within the High Seas Fleet based at Kiel – generally seen as the spark that caused the German Revolution.

  • The poet Wilfred Owen was killed. Start of the final Allied offensive on the Western Front.

  • General retreat of German forces along the Meuse started.

  • German representatives arrived at Compiègne and are handed the terms of an armistice.

  • Wilhelm II of Germany abdicated. Belgian forces occupied Ghent.

  • Wilhelm II crossed into the Netherlands after it became clear that the German Army and Navy no longer supported him.

  • Germany signed an armistice with the Allies, which came into force at 11.00. World War One ended.