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1918 November 10
 
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Kaiser Wilhelm II abdicates and goes into exile in the Netherlands      
1918 November 11
 
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The Allies and the Germans finally agree the terms of an armistice at 5 a.m.      
1918 November 11
 
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The war ends with the official cessation of hostilities at 11 a.m., the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month      
1918 November 13
 
    
The deposition of the emperor Charles I by the Austrian government brings to a formal end the empire of Austria-Hungary and more than six centuries of Habsburg rule       
1918 November 13
 
  
With the end of the Habsburg empire, German-speaking Austrians declare their own much smaller territory to be an independent republic     
1918 November 14
 
    
The new nation of Czechoslovakia is established from within Austria-Hungary, with Tomas Masaryk as its first president       
1918 November 16
 
    
Prime minister Mihaly Karolyi proclaims the republic of Hungary, after the demise of Austria-Hungary       
1918 November 23
 
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Paul von Lettow-Vorbeck, commander of the German army in East Africa, surrenders after four stubborn years of resistance      
1918 December 1
 
   
Serbia, Slovenia, Croatia and Montenegro merge as the new Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes, with the Serbian Peter I as king      
1914-1918
 
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The Great War has resulted in some 8 million dead in the armed forces of the rival nations      
1914-1918
 
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Approximately 7 million civilians are calculated to have died as a direct result of the four years of world war      
1919  January 4
 
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Finland wins freedom from Russia and becomes an independent republic     
1919
 
   
Composer and pianist Ignacy Jan Paderewski becomes prime minister of the newly independent Poland      
1919
 
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The Sinn Fein members elected to Westminster establish their own parliament in Dublin, the Dáil Eireann (Assembly of Ireland), soon declared illegal by Britain       
1919
 
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The armed supporters of Sinn Fein become the IRA, or Irish Republican Army, in Ireland's war of independence       
1919
 
    
Quia Pauper Amavi contains the first three of Ezra Pound's eventually more than 100 cantos       
1919
 
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Michael Collins springs de Valera from Lincoln gaol, with the help of a duplicate key       
1919
 
    
Returning from active service with the Royal Navy, Erskine Childers devotes his energies to Sinn Fein and Irish independence       
1919
 
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Mussolini founds the Fasci di Combattimento, dedicated to opposing the Socialist party       
1919
 
   
Edward Elgar completes his last great work, the Cello Concerto in E minor      
1919
 
   
More than 300 die when British troops fire on a peaceful demonstration in Amritsar      
1919
 
    
H.L. Mencken's The American Language traces the gradual evolution of American from English       
1919
 
   
The Swiss theologian Karl Barth publishes his influential Commentary on Romans, taking St Paul's epistle as his text      
1919
 
    
The Soviet system of Gulag slave labour camps is introduced, under the control of the secret service, the Cheka       
1919
 
   
Music-hall artist Harry Lauder is knighted for his wartime performances entertaining troops at the front