Editing 1918 (section)

== 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]].