Editing 1918 (section)

=== February ===
{{main|February 1918}}
* [[February 1]] – [[Cattaro Mutiny]]: Austrian sailors in the Gulf of Cattaro (Kotor), led by two Czech Socialists, mutiny.
* [[February 3]] – [[Battle of Oulu]]
* [[February 5]] – The {{SS|Tuscania|1914|6}} is torpedoed off the Irish coast; it is the first ship carrying American troops to Europe to be torpedoed and sunk.
[[File:Declaration of Estonian independence in Pärnu.jpg|thumb|[[February 23]]: [[Estonian Declaration of Independence]] ]]
* [[February 6]] – [[Women's suffrage in the United Kingdom]]: [[Representation of the People Act 1918|Representation of the People Act]] gives most women over 30 the vote.<ref name="Pocket On This Day">{{cite book|title=Penguin Pocket On This Day|publisher=Penguin Reference Library|isbn=0-14-102715-0|year=2006}}</ref>
* [[February 10]] – Deposed Sultan of the Ottoman Empire [[Abdul Hamid II]] dies in [[Istanbul]].
* [[February 13]] – A [[1918 Shantou earthquake|magnitude (M<sub>w</sub>) 7.2 earthquake]] shakes the Chinese city of [[Shantou]] leaving 1,000 dead and causing a moderate tsunami.<ref name=Engdahl>{{cite book|title=International Handbook of Earthquake & Engineering Seismology |series=Part A, Volume 81A |chapter=Global seismicity: 1900–1999 |first1=E. R. |last1=Engdahl |first2=A. |last2=Vallaseñor |year=2002 |chapter-url=https://earthquake.usgs.gov/data/centennial/centennial.pdf |publisher=[[Academic Press]] |edition=First |isbn=978-0124406520 |page=674 }}</ref>
* [[February 14]] – [[Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic|Russia]] switches from the [[Julian calendar]] to the [[Gregorian calendar]]; the date skips from [[January 31]] to [[February 14]].
* [[February 16]] – The [[Council of Lithuania]] adopts the [[Act of Independence of Lithuania]], declaring Lithuania's independence from Germany, Russia or any other state.
* [[February 18]] – [[Operations against the Marri and Khetran tribes]] in [[Balochistan]] by British authorities begin.
* [[February 19]] – WWI: The [[Capture of Jericho]] by the [[Egyptian Expeditionary Force]] begins the [[British occupation of the Jordan Valley]].
* [[February 19]]–[[February 25|25]] – WWI: The [[Imperial Russian Navy]] evacuates [[Tallinn]] [[Ice Cruise of the Baltic Fleet|through thick ice]], over the [[Gulf of Finland]].
* [[February 23]] – [[Estonian Declaration of Independence]] from [[Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic|Russia]], after seven centuries of foreign rule; German forces capture [[Tallinn]] the following day.