June 1918
Date | Events |
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Fighting continues as Germans press forward in their offensive south of River Marne: ends 6 June | |
3 | British, French and Italian governments declare support of national aspirations of Poles, Czecho-Slovaks and Yugo-Slavs |
4 | Section of British marines land at Pechenga on north Russian coast |
4 | Don Cossacks declare independence |
5 | British Independent Air Force is constituted under command of Major-General Sir Hugh Trenchard |
6 | Seven lose their lives as Dutch hospital ship "Koningin Regentes" is sunk by German submarine UB-107 on way from Boston (England) to Rotterdam |
6 | Allied Commander in Chief in Salonika, French General Guillaumat, is recalled to France to become Governor of Paris |
7 | British force lands at Kem in north Russia |
7 | Czech force in Russia ocupies key railway town of Omsk |
8 | German Expeditionary Force to the Caucasus lands at Poti in Georgia |
8 | Bolshevik government orders Allied forces out of north Russia |
8 | Georgian givernment and Armenian Council sign peace agreement with Turkey; Georgia also signs with Germany |
9 | German offensive operation "Gneisenau" begins: also known as the Battle of the Matz: ends 14 June |
9 | Anglo-German conference on prisoners of war takes place in the Hague |
12 | German force occupies Tiflis in Georgia |
12 | Turkish force occupies Kirdamir in east Caucasus |
12 | Ukraine and Bolshevik Russia conclude an armistice |
14 | Turkish force occupies Tabriz in north Persia |
15 | Battle of the Piave begins in Italy and lasts to 24 June: for British forces, their part is the Battle of the Asiago Plateau; Austro-Hungarian attack soon halted |
18 | Russian battlship "Svobodnaya Rossiya" is destroyed in Black Sea to avoid it falling into German hands |
16 | French General Franchet d'Esperey is appointed Allied Commander in Chief in Salonika |
23 | British expeditionary forces "Syren" and "Elope" join North Russian Expeditionary Force at Murmansk |
27 | British hospital ship "Llandovery Castle" sunk by German submarine off coast of Ireland |
29 | United States government announces a view that all Slav races should be free of German and Austrian rule |
30 | First elements of United States forces land in Italy |
30 | Allied forces seizes Murmansk railway at Soroki |
30 | Murman Soviet declares support for Allies against Bolshevik gvernment of Russia |
30 | Treaty signed between Italy and Czecho-Slovaks recognises Czecho-Slovak Council and its jurisdiction over the people of their nations |