1918

YEAR
1918
Previous	1917
Conflict(s)	World War I
Next	1919

Events

• Louis B. Meyer moves into his first studio.
• The Warner Brothers begin production.
• Leonard Woolley discovers the ancient Sumerian city of Ur, Iraq.
• Active sonar is developed to locate underwater objects.
• Airplanes are used for crop-dusting.
• First electric motor clocks become available.
• Leonardo Sarducci is judged criminally insane and imprisoned after brutally maiming the doctor he blamed for his wife Mona Grimaldi's death.
• Indiana Jones follows Mohandas K. Gandhi's figth for liberty. (Approximate)
• Theodore Roosevelt falls ill.
• Siegfried Sassoon is shot in the head.
• Emanuel Victor Voska was commissioned in the U.S. Army.
• January
  • Indiana Jones has a encounter with Mattias Targo in Transylvania, Romania.
  • January 8: President Woodrow Wilson of the United States of America outlines his "14 Points" peace plan.
• March 3: Treaty of Brest-Litovsk. Russia abandons their European allies and signs a separate peace treaty with Germany. Germany invades Ukraine and takes Kiev.
• March 21-April 6: Battle of the Somme. Germans fail to split Allied lines.
• April
  • The 369th Infantry reaches the trenches of Europe.
  • The terms of Karl I agreeing to Allied demands for the return of Alsace to France are disclosed.
• May 1: Germans take Sevastopol.
• May 7: Germans invade Finland.
• May 15: Two African American soldiers volunteer for sentry duty.
• May 27-June 3: Third Battle of Aisne. Germans advance to Marne.
• July
  • The Schweitzer are freed.
  • July 15-August 2: Second Battle of the Marne. Last major German offensive ends in failure. This is the turning point on the Western Front.
  • July 17: News arrive that Quentin Roosevelt is missing in action and shot down behind enemy lines. His death is confirmed two days later.
• August 8: Allies finally start to get the upper hand on the Western Front and force the Germans into retreat.
• August 12: Remy Baudouin sends a letter.
• September
  • The US army is organized enough to go into battle under its own flag.
  • Indiana Jones proposes to Molly Walder, who dies by a spy's bullet.
  • September 12-13: Battle of St. Mihiel. American victory.
  • September 18: British forces attack Palestine, Damascus, Beirut and Aleppo.
  • September 26-October 31: Battle of Argonne Forest.
  • September 30: War ends in Bulgaria.
• October
  • October 3: Helen Margaret Seymour writes a letter to Indy.
  • October 6: The Americans capture St. Etienne.
  • October 17: The Allies capture Cambrai, Roncroy, Osten and Bruges.
  • October 24: Battle of Vittorio Veneto. Italian victory seizes Trieste and Fiume.
  • October 30: Turks sign armistice.
• November
  • November 3:
    • Austria surrenders and Poland and Hungary secede from Austria-Hungary. Several other new nations form.
    • Kiel mutiny begins the collapse of the German government.
  • November 9: Wilhelm II abdicates after a German revolution.
  • November 11: Germany signs armistice. Armistice Day, World War I ends.
  • Indy and Remy Baudouin go in search of the Peacock's Eye.
  • Charles de Gaulle is freed to return in France.
• Joe Oliver moves to Chicago.
• December 4: President Woodrow Wilson boards the USS George Washington and leaves New York harbor bound for Paris, USA.
• December 13: Americans cross the Rhine.
• Assassins attempt to kill Vladimir Ilyich Lenin but fail. Communists respond by murdering hundreds of thousands in the "Red Terror".
• Women over 30 get the vote in Great Britain.
• British take over the parts of Arabia that will become Iraq.
• Outbreak of influenza.
• Raggedy Ann doll is first sold.
• Pop-up toasters become available.

Births

• Kamala Seshan
• Any men that with a body consitution by 1943 like that of Harvey Bennet, who was actually older.

Deaths

• January: Transylvania
  • Waters
  • Adolf Schmidt
  • Nicholas Hunyadi
  • Mattias Targo
• Nicholas II
• Gavrilo Princip
• April: Manfred von Richthofen over France.
• July: Quentin Roosevelt
• September: Istanbul, Turkey
  • Molly Walder
  • Monty
  • Etienne
• November:
  • November 4: Helen Margaret Seymour in Oxford, England.
  • November 11: Rajendra Sing
  • Zyke in Batavia, Java.
  • Lily in the South China Sea.
  • Ku Wong's Bodyguard
  • Jin Ming
  • Biok

Behind the scenes

The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Hunting for Treasure incorrectly states its setting as 1916, when in reality it should be 1918 to reflect Young Indiana Jones and the Treasure of the Peacock's Eye.

The real Ernest Hemingway arrived in Italy as an ambulance driver in June 1918 (and injured on July 8, 1918) as correctly shown in the "Northern Italy, June 1918". However the episode was edited to become the first part of Tales of Innocence, dated 1917.

Appearances

• Young Indiana Jones and the Tomb of Terror (Historical note)
• Prisoner of War (Historical note)
• Field of Death (Historical note)
• The Day of Destiny (Mentioned only)
• Trek of Doom (Historical note)
• The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Special Delivery (Mentioned only)
• The Secret Peace (Historical note)
• The Secret Treaty (Mentioned only)
• The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles – "Transylvania, January 1918" → Masks of Evil
• The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles – "Northern Italy, June 1918" → Tales of Innocence
• The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles – "Istanbul, September 1918" → Masks of Evil
• The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles – "Young Indiana Jones and the Treasure of the Peacock's Eye" → Treasure of the Peacock's Eye
• The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Hunting for Treasure
• The Roaring Twenties (Glossary)
• Indiana Jones and the Sky Pirates (Mentioned only)
• Indiana Jones and the Philosopher's Stone (Mentioned only)
• Indiana Jones et la Cité de la Foudre (Indirect mention)
• Indiana Jones: The Search For Buried Treasure
• Indiana Jones und das Verschwundene Volk (Indirect mention)

Sources

• Who Are Those Guys? (Non-fiction source)
• "Uncovering the History Behind Young Indy Part Two" - The Lucasfilm Fan Club Magazine 17
• The War to End All Wars (Non-fiction source)
• The World of Indiana Jones
•  Chapter 8: The Trenches of Hell on The Complete Adventures of Indiana Jones (backup link on Archive.org)
•  Chapter 12: Attack of the Hawkmen on The Complete Adventures of Indiana Jones (backup link on Archive.org)
•  Chapter 13: Adventures in the Secret Service on The Complete Adventures of Indiana Jones (backup link on Archive.org)
•  Chapter 15: Daredevils of the Desert on The Complete Adventures of Indiana Jones (backup link on Archive.org)
•  Chapter 16: Tales of Innocence on The Complete Adventures of Indiana Jones (backup link on Archive.org)
•  Chapter 17: Masks of Evil on IndianaJones.com (backup link on Archive.org)
•  Indiana Jones' Marshall College entry on IndianaJones.com (backup link on Archive.org)
• Theodore Roosevelt and The American Century (Non-fiction source)
• Colonel Lawrence's War - T.E. Lawrence and Arabia (Non-fiction source)
• Braque & Picasso - A Collaboration Cubed (Non-fiction source)
• V. I. Lenin - History Will Not Forgive Us (Non-fiction source)
• Woodrow Wilson - American Idealist (Non-fiction source)
• New Gods for Old (Non-fiction source)
• Hellfighters - Harlem's Heroes of World War I (Non-fiction source)
• The Rise of the Moguls - The Men Who Built Hollywood (Non-fiction source)
• Prohibition - America on the Rocks (Non-fiction source)
• Indiana Jones: The Ultimate Guide
• The Lost Journal of Indiana Jones
• Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull Annual 2009
• Indiana Jones Program Collection 2023

External links

• 1918 on Wikipedia