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1918 October 1
 
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After a victory at the historic battle site of Megiddo, Allenby captures the city of Damascus        
1918 October 4
 
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The Kaiser appoints a new chancellor, Prince Max von Baden, to negotiate an end to the war       
1918 October 5
 
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The new German chancellor, Prince Max of Baden, sends a message to President Wilson requesting an immediate armistice       
1918 October 5
 
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The British, under Douglas Haig, break through Germany's heavily defended Hindenburg Line       
1918 October 30
 
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An armistice is signed between Turkey and the Allies on the warship Agamemnon in the Greek port of Mudros     
1918 October 30
 
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A mutiny in Germany's fleet in Kiel sparks uprisings in several German cities     
1918 November 7
 
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Austria-Hungary signs a separate armistice with the Allied powers, in a villa near Padua, without waiting for the Germans     
1918 November 8
 
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The Allied commander-in chief, Marshal Foch, meets a German delegation in a railway carriage in the forest of Compiègne to discuss an armistice       
1918 November 9
 
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Friedrich Ebert, leader of the Social Democrats, becomes the first chancellor of the newly proclaimed German republic      
1918 November 9
 
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The Spartacus League proclaims a rival German republic on soviet lines