Editing 1918 (section)

=== October ===
{{main|October 1918}}
* [[October 1]] – WWI: The Desert Mounted Corps [[Capture of Damascus (1918)|captures Damascus]].
* [[October 2]] – WWI: The [[Charge at Khan Ayash]] is begun north of Damascus, by the [[3rd Light Horse Brigade]].
* [[October 3]]
** Kaiser [[Wilhelm II of Germany]] appoints [[Max von Baden]] [[Chancellor of Germany (German Reich)|Chancellor of Germany]].
** King [[Ferdinand I of Bulgaria]] abdicates in the wake of the Bulgarian military collapse in WWI. He is succeeded by his son, [[Boris III of Bulgaria|Boris III]].
** WWI: The [[Pursuit to Haritan]] by the Desert Mounted Corps begins.
* [[October 4]]
** [[Wilhelm II of Germany]] forms a new, liberal government to sue for peace.
** The [[T. A. Gillespie Company Shell Loading Plant explosion]] in New Jersey kills 100+, and destroys enough ammunition to supply the Western Front for 6 months.
* [[October 7]] – The [[Regency Council (Poland)]] declares Polish independence from the [[German Empire]], and demands that Germany cede the Polish provinces of [[Poznań]], [[Upper Silesia]] and [[Polish Corridor|Polish Pomerania]].
* [[October 8]]–[[October 10|10]] – WWI: [[Battle of Cambrai (1918)|Second Battle of Cambrai]]: British and Canadian troops take [[Cambrai]] from the Germans and the First and Third British Armies break through the Hindenburg Line.
* [[October 8]] – WWI: In the [[Forest of Argonne]] in France, U.S. Corporal [[Alvin C. York]] almost single-handedly kills 25 German soldiers and captures 132.
* [[October 9]] – Landgrave [[Prince Frederick Charles of Hesse]] is elected [[Kingdom of Finland (1918)|King of Finland]].
* [[October 11]] – The magnitude (M<sub>w</sub>) 7.1 [[1918 San Fermín earthquake|San Fermín earthquake]] shakes Puerto Rico with a maximum [[Mercalli intensity scale|Mercalli intensity]] of IX (''Violent''), killing 76–116 people. A destructive tsunami contributes to the damage and loss of life.
* [[October 12]] – [[1918 Cloquet Fire|Cloquet Fire]]: The city of [[Cloquet, Minnesota]], and nearby areas are destroyed in a fire, killing 453.
* [[October 16]] – Emperor Karl IV of Austria publishes the ''Völkermanifest'' manifesto, declaring the Cisleithanian part of the empire will be federalized on the basis of national councils 
* [[October 18]] – The [[Czechoslovak declaration of independence|Washington Declaration]] proclaims the independent [[First Czechoslovak Republic|Czechoslovak Republic]].
* [[October 21]] – German representatives of the ''Reichsrat'' in Austria-Hungary form the Provisional National Assembly for German-Austria 
* [[October 24]] – WWI: The [[Battle of Vittorio Veneto]] opens.
* [[October 25]]
** WWI: [[Battle of Aleppo (1918)|Aleppo]] is captured, by [[Faisal I of Iraq|Prince Feisal's]] Sheifial Forces.
** The steamer ''[[SS Princess Sophia|Princess Sophia]]'' sinks on [[Vanderbilt Reef]] near [[Juneau, Alaska]]; 353 people die, in the greatest maritime disaster in the Pacific Northwest.
* [[October 26]] – WWI – [[Charge at Haritan]]: Units of the Desert Mounted Corps battle with Ottoman forces for the last time in WWI.
* [[October 28]]
** [[Czechoslovakia]] declares its independence from [[Austria-Hungary]].
** A new Polish government is declared in Western [[Galicia (Eastern Europe)]].
* [[October 29]] 
** The [[Wilhelmshaven mutiny]] of the German [[High Seas Fleet]] breaks out.
** The [[State of Slovenes, Croats and Serbs]] declares its independence from Austria-Hungary.
* [[October 30]]
** The [[Martin Declaration]] is published, including [[Slovakia]] in the formation of the Czecho-Slovak state.
** The [[Armistice of Mudros]] ends conflict between the [[Ottoman Empire]] and the [[Allies of World War I]], and grants independence to the [[Mutawakkilite Kingdom of Yemen]].
* [[October 31]] – [[Aster Revolution|Revolution]] overthrows the pro-Habsburg government in [[Hungary]], effectively dissolving the [[Austro-Hungarian Empire]].