November Revolution

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1918

November

03
- Kiel mutinyOn 3 November 1918 a patrol in Kiel fired on a march of sailors and workers. Next day the city was in the hands of soldiers' councils. The revolution had begun.
07
- Bavarian republicIn the night of 7–8 November 1918 Kurt Eisner proclaimed the Free State of Bavaria in Munich and deposed the Wittelsbachs. King Ludwig III fled the city.
09
- Key eventRevolution in BerlinOn 9 November 1918 the revolution reached Berlin. The chancellor announced the Kaiser's abdication and handed power to Ebert; Scheidemann proclaimed a republic.
10
- Kaiser Wilhelm in the NetherlandsOn 10 November 1918 Wilhelm II left Spa and crossed the Dutch border at Eijsden. The government of the neutral Netherlands granted him asylum.
12
- Women in Germany get the voteOn 12 November 1918 Ebert's revolutionary government announced universal, equal and secret elections for all German men and women aged 20 and over.
13
- Poles in the soldiers' councils in PoznańOn 13 November 1918 Polish conspirators burst into a meeting of the Workers' and Soldiers' Council in Poznań and forced it to admit Poles to its leadership.
14
- Founding of the Supreme People's CouncilOn 14 November 1918 Polish leaders in Poznań came out of hiding as the Commissariat of the Supreme People's Council and called a Provincial Sejm for December.
28
- Abdication of Wilhelm IIOn 28 November 1918 at Amerongen Wilhelm II signed a renunciation of the crowns of Prussia and the Reich, 19 days after his abdication was announced in Berlin.

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