Main events in 1918 when Chadwick Weir was founded

International

January 15 – Birth of Gamal Abdal Nasser, 2nd President of Egypt.
February 14 – Russia switches from the Julian calendar to the Gregorian calendar, date skips to from February 1 to February 14.
March 1 – Birth of Joao Goulart, former President of Brazil.
March 12 – Moscow becomes the capital of Soviet Russia.
March 25 – Death of Claude Debussy, French composer.
April 22 – Death of Manfred von Richthofen, “Red Baron”, German World War I pilot.
April 28 – Death of Gavrilo Princip, assassin of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria.
July 17 – RMS Carpathia, the rescue ship of the RMS Titanic, is sunk off the coast of Ireland by the Underseeboat 55.
August – “Spanish flu” Influenza becomes pandemic; over twenty-five million people die in the following six months (almost twice as many as died during the war).
October 5 – Death of Roland Garros, French Pilot (shot down).
October 25 – The Princess Sophia sinks on Vanderbilt Reef near Juneau, Alaska, 353 people die in the greatest maritime disaster in the Pacific Northwest.
November 3 – Poland declares its independence from Russia.
November 11 – World War I ends: Germany signs an armistice agreement with the Allies in a railroad car outside of Compiègne in France. It becomes official on the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month.
November 12 – Austria becomes a republic.
November 14 – Czechoslovakia becomes a republic.
November 16 – Hungarian People’s Republic declared.
December 1 – Iceland becomes a self-governing kingdom, yet remains in personal union with the king of Denmark who also becomes king of Iceland.
December 11 – Birth of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Russian writer, Nobel Prize laureate.
December 21 – Birth of Kurt Waldheim, former President of Austria and Secretary-General of the UN.
December 23 – Birth of Helmut Schmidt Head of State – Chancellor of Germany 1974-82.
December 24 – Birth of Anwar Sadat, former President of Egypt, recipient of the Nobel Prize.
Nobel prize in Physics: Max Planck.
“The Decline of the West” by Oswald Spengler.

Minutes

National

January 3 – Promulgation of 2nd National Constitution.
April 18 – Signature of Mandatory Arbitration Treaty with Britain.
May 12 – Foundation of Uruguay Automobile Club.
June 25 – Signature of Arbitration Treaty with Bolivia and Perú.
July 15 – Banco de Londres affiliates to Lloyds’ Bank Limited.
August 25 – Signature of Arbitration Treaty with Colombia.
September 14 – 1st Edition of El País newspaper.
President of Uruguay: Mr. Feliciano Viera.
Director of the Navy: Captain Juan Escabini.
President of the Shipping Association: Mr. R.H. Stapledon.
President of Chadwick Weir & Cia. Ltda.: Mr. Eduardo A. Woodward.
José E. Rodó writes “El Camino de Paros”.
Horacio Quiroga writes “Cuentos de la Selva”
Joaquín Torres García paints “Puerto de Barcelona”
First radio telephone station starts to operate in the country.
Seafarers Union founded.