1918

Events

• January 27 to May 15 - The Finnish Civil War is fought.
• January 28 - The 1918 Porvenir Massacre takes place when Texas Rangers, U.S. Cavalry soldiers, and local ranchers killed 15 unarmed Mexican villagers, both men and boys.
• March 3 - The Central Powers and Bolshevist Russia sign the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk, ending Russia's involvement in World War I.
• May 23 - The Axeman of New Orleans commits his first confirmed murder when he breaks into the home of Joseph and Catherine Maggio, killing them both.
• July 16 to 17 - The Execution of the Romanov family: deposed Tsar Nicholas II, his wife, and five children are executed by Bolsheviks on the orders of Vladimir Lenin.
• August 30 - Vladimir Lenin survives an assassination attempt after being shot by a Jewish woman named Fanny Kaplan at an arms factory in south Moscow.
• September 1 - Carlisle Indian Industrial School is closed.
• September 3 - Beginning of the Red Terror in Russia.
• October - The Communist Party of Lithuania is founded.
• October 4 - Enver Pasha is dismissed as Ottoman Minister of War.
• October 8 - Talaat Pasha is removed as Grand Vizier of the Ottoman Empire, ending the Young Turks' control of the empire.
• November 9 - Kaiser Wilhelm II abdicates as German Emperor. The German Empire is subsequently dissolved.
• November 28 - Beginning of the Estonian War of Independence.
• December 14 - President of Portugal Sidónio Pais is assassinated in Lisbon by left-wing political activist José Júlio da Costa.
• December 30 - The Communist Party of Germany is founded.
• Unknown - The first group of Stolen Generations children arrives at the Moore River Native Settlement.

Births

Villain births

• January 15 - Gamal Abdel Nasser
• January 26 - Nicolae Ceaușescu
• February 23 - Richard Girnt Butler
• March 9 - George Lincoln Rockwell
• March 27 - Bronius Urbanavicius
• May 2 - Julius Rosenberg
• May 4 - Kakuei Tanaka
• June 15 - Francois Tombalbaye
• November 9 - Spiro Agnew
• December 25 - Anwar Sadat

Deaths

Villain deaths

• February 10 - Abdul Hamid II
• March 1 - Jacob H. Smith
• April 28 - Gavrilo Princip
• July 3 - Benjamin Tillman
• July 17 - Nicholas II

Victim deaths

• February 8 - Jim McIlherron
• May 23 - Joseph and Catherine Maggio
• December 14 - Sidónio Pais