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 +[[Image:Salut monde by Guillaume Apollinaire.jpg|thumb|right|200px|"[[Salut monde]]" by [[Guillaume Apollinaire]]]]
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 +'''1918''' (MCMXVIII) was the 918th year of the 2nd millennium, the 18th year of the 20th century, and the 9th year of the 1910s decade.
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 +== Events ==
 +* [[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.
 +* [[March 26]] – Dr. [[Marie Stopes]] publishes her influential book ''[[Married Love]]'' in the U.K.
 +* [[July 17]] – [[Execution of the Romanov family]] by order of the [[Bolshevik Party]]
 +* [[August 30]] - In response to the [[October Revolution]] in Russia, [[Vladimir Lenin]] is shot and wounded by [[Fanny Kaplan]] in Moscow, but survives.
 +* [[November 11]] - End of [[World War I|WWI]] and [[Armistice with Germany (Compiègne)]]
== Art and culture == == Art and culture ==
-*[[Jean Cocteau]] meets [[Raymond Radiguet]] 
*End of [[World War I]] *End of [[World War I]]
-*Start of [[Weimar Republic]] +*Start of [[Weimar Republic]]
-== Literature ==+*[[March 23]] - [[Dada Manifesto (1918) by Tristan Tzara|Dada Manifesto]] by Tristan Tzara
 +*In February 1918, [[Richard Huelsenbeck]] gave his first Dada speech in Berlin, and produced a [[Dada manifesto]] later in the year
 +==Film==
 +*''[[Es werde Licht!]]'' by Richard Oswald
 +== Literature ==
 +===Fiction===
 +*''[[Casanova's Homecoming]]'' by Arthur Schnitzler
 +===Poetry===
*''[[Twenty-Five Poems]]'' by Tzara *''[[Twenty-Five Poems]]'' by Tzara
*''[[Calligrammes]]'' by Guillaume Apollinaire *''[[Calligrammes]]'' by Guillaume Apollinaire
 +===Non-fiction===
 +*''[[The Decline of the West]]'' by Oswald Spengler, first volume published
 +
== Visual arts == == Visual arts ==
*First version of ''[[L.H.O.O.Q.]]'' *First version of ''[[L.H.O.O.Q.]]''
-*[[Red and Blue Chair]] (1918) - [[Gerrit Rietveld]] +*[[Red and Blue Chair]] by Gerrit Rietveld
 +*''[[White on White]]'' by Kazimir Malevich
 + 
== Births == == Births ==
-*[[André Bazin]] (1918 - 1958)+* [[January 20]] - [[Juan García Esquivel]], Mexican bandleader (d. [[2002]])
-*[[Robert Aldrich]] (1918 - 1983)+* [[January 26]] - [[Philip José Farmer]], American writer (d. [[2009]])
-*[[Richard Hoggart]]+* [[February 2]] – [[Hella Haasse]], Dutch writer (d. [[2011]])
-*[[Louis Althusser]] (1918 - 1990)+* [[February 15]] – [[Allan Arbus]], American actor (''[[M*A*S*H (TV series)|M*A*S*H]]'') (d. [[2013]])
-*[[Ingmar Bergman]] +* [[February 16]] – [[Patty Andrews]], American singer ([[The Andrews Sisters]]) (d. [[2013]])
-* [[James Kirkup]], a prolific English poet, translator and travel writer+* [[February 26]] - [[Theodore Sturgeon]], American writer (d. [[1985]])
 +* [[March 9]] - [[Mickey Spillane]], American writer (d. [[2006]])
 +* [[March 12]] – [[Elaine de Kooning]], American artist (d. [[1989]])
 +* [[April 16]] – [[Spike Milligan]], Irish comedian (d. [[2002]])
 +* [[April 18]] - [[Gabriel Axel]], Danish film director (d. [[2014]])
 +* April 18 – [[André Bazin]], French film critic and theorist (d. 1958)
 +* [[April 23]] – [[James Kirkup]], a prolific English poet, translator and travel writer (d. 2009)
 +* [[July 14]] - [[Ingmar Bergman]], Swedish film director (d. [[2007]])
 +* [[August 9]] – [[Robert Aldrich]], American film director (d. 1983)
 +* [[August 25]] – [[Leonard Bernstein]], American composer and conductor (d. [[1990]])
 +* [[September 24]] – [[Richard Hoggart]], British academic (d. 2004)
 +* [[October 16]] – [[Louis Althusser]], French philosopher (d. [[1990]])
 +* [[October 17]] – [[Rita Hayworth]], American actress (d. [[1987]])
 +* [[December 11]] – [[Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn]], Russian writer, [[Nobel Prize in Literature|Nobel Prize]] laureate (d. [[2008]])
 +==Deaths==
 +* [[March 25]] - [[Claude Debussy]], French composer (b. [[1862]])
 +* [[April 18]] – [[Otto Wagner]], Austro-Hungarian architect and urban planner (b. [[1841]])
 +* [[June 27]] – [[Joséphin Péladan]], French occultist (b. [[1858]])
 +* [[September 28]] - [[Georg Simmel]], German sociologist and philosopher (b. [[1858]])
 +* [[October 31]] - [[Egon Schiele]], Austrian artist (b. [[1890]])
 +* [[November 9]] - [[Guillaume Apollinaire]], French poet (b. [[1880]])
-==Deaths == 
-*[[Georg Simmel]] (1858 – 1918) 
-*[[Egon Schiele]] (1890 - 1918) 
-*[[Gustav Klimt]] (1862 - 1918) 
-*[[Guillaume Apollinaire]] (1880 - 1918) 
-*[[Claude Debussy]] (1862 - 1918)  
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