Armistice between Germany and the Allied powers ends First World War, Tomas Masaryk elected president of Czechoslovakia, Hungary proclaims itself a republic, UK General election voting: Lloyd George's liberal and conservative coalition wins a huge majority; Sinn Féin wins 73 of Ireland's 105 seats, Spartacist uprising crushed in Berlin, Rosa Luxemburg shot, Peace conference opens in Paris, Irish parliament, Dáil Éireann, inaugurated in Dublin. Two policemen killed in an ambush by Irish Volunteers at Soloheadbeg in County Tipperary, Charlie Chaplin, Mary Pickford, Douglas Fairbanks, and D.W. Griffith launch United Artists film studio, Anti-British riots erupt in Cairo, Mussolini launches Italian fascist movement, Following his escape from Lincoln Prison in February, Eamon de Valera elected president of Dáil Éireann, In India, 379 protesting civilians massacred by British troops at Amritsar, General strike in Limerick sees the formation of the Limerick soviet, De Valera arrives in New York at the start of an eighteen-month tour of the United States, Detective Inspector Hunt shot dead in Market Square, Thurles, Treaty of Versailles signed, Detective Patrick Smyth of G Division of the DMP shot dead by IRA Squad in Dublin, Dáil Éireann declared illegal, Viceroy Lord French survives assassination attempt in Dublin.

Chronology 1918-1919

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