- Source: 1918 in France
Events from the year 1918 in France.
Incumbents
President: Raymond Poincaré
President of the Council of Ministers: Georges Clemenceau
Events
21 March – Operation Michael begins in the vicinity of Saint-Quentin, launching Germany's Spring Offensive.
23 March – The giant German cannon, called the Paris Gun, begins to shell Paris from 114 km (71 mi) away.
27 May – The Third Battle of the Aisne begins, an attempt by the Germans to capture the Chemin des Dames Ridge before the arrival of the American Expeditionary Force to support France.
1 June – The Battle of Belleau Wood begins, near the Marne River.
6 June – Third Battle of the Aisne ends with the German advance halted after initial gains.
26 June – Battle of Belleau Wood ends in Allied victory.
15 July – The Second Battle of the Marne begins, the last major German offensive on the Western Front.
18 July-22 July – The Battle of Soissons is fought between the French (with American assistance) and German armies.
5 August – Second Battle of the Marne ends with Allied victory.
8 August – Battle of Amiens begins.
12 September – British victory in Battle of Havrincourt.
12 September-15 September – Battle of Saint-Mihiel, Allied victory.
18 September – British victory in the Battle of Épehy.
8 October-10 October – The Battle of Cambrai ends in a decisive Allied victory.
7 November – The Anglo-French Declaration is signed between France and the United Kingdom, agreeing to implement a "complete and final liberation" of countries that had been part of the Ottoman Empire.
11 November – Battle of Amiens ends, when the armistice is signed.
Births
6 February – Marcel Mouly, artist (died 2008)
25 April – Alain Savary, politician and Minister (died 1988)
25 April – Gérard de Vaucouleurs, astronomer (died 1995)
11 May – Roger Trézel, bridge player (died 1986)
26 June – Roger Voisin, trumpeter (died 2008)
26 August – Marcel Bleibtreu, Trotskyist activist and theorist (died 2001)
31 August – Camille Bonnet, rugby union player (died 2020)
14 September – Paul Bonneau, composer (died 1995)
30 September – René Rémond, historian and political economist (died 2007)
6 October – André Pilette, motor racing driver (died 1993)
16 October – Louis Althusser, Marxist philosopher (died 1990)
22 October – René de Obaldia, playwright (died 2022)
7 November – Paul Aussaresses, general (died 2013)
8 December – Gérard Souzay, baritone (died 2004)
16 December – Pierre Delanoë, songwriter/lyricist (died 2006)
30 December – Lucien Leduc, soccer player and manager (died 2004)
= Full date unknown
=Madeleine Giteau, historian (died 2005)
Gilbert Martineau, author and curator of the French properties on St Helena (died 1995)
Deaths
9 January – Charles-Émile Reynaud, science teacher, responsible for the first animated films (born 1844)
23 March — Hans Gottfried von Häbler, World War I German flying ace (born 1893)
25 March – Claude Debussy, composer (born 1862)
25 August – Henri Chantavoine, writer (born 1850)
5 October – Roland Garros, aviator and World War I fighter pilot (born 1888)
12 October – Émile Étienne Guimet, industrialist, traveller and connoisseur (born 1836)
13 October – Marcel Deprez, electrical engineer (born 1843)
9 November – Guillaume Apollinaire, poet, writer and art critic (born 1880)
3 December – Étienne Destot, radiologist and anatomist (born 1864)
22 December – Philippe Alexandre Jules Künckel d'Herculais, entomologist (born 1843)
= Full date unknown
=Thérèse Humbert, fraudster (born 1856)
See also
List of French films of 1918
References
Kata Kunci Pencarian:
- Flu Spanyol
- Perang Dunia I
- Croix de guerre 1914–1918 (Prancis)
- Fort-de-France
- Paris
- Britania Raya
- Augustin Trébuchon
- Front Barat (Perang Dunia I)
- Kesultanan Utsmaniyah
- Perang Dunia II
- 1918 in France
- Croix de guerre 1914–1918 (France)
- Western Front (World War I)
- Spanish flu
- November 1918 insurgency in Alsace–Lorraine
- 1918
- Battle of Amiens (1918)
- Battle of the Sambre (1918)
- Hundred Days Offensive
- List of French films of 1918
