Poland
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1918
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- 11
- Key eventPoland regains independenceOn 11 November 1918 the Regency Council handed Piłsudski command of the army, while Warsaw disarmed the Germans. The day became Independence Day.
- Pogrom in KielceOn 11 November 1918 a crowd attacked people leaving a Jewish meeting at the Kielce theatre. Four people were killed in two days of rioting.
- 14
- Dissolution of the Regency CouncilOn 14 November 1918 the regents dissolved the Regency Council and handed all supreme authority to Piłsudski. That day Piłsudski named Daszyński prime minister.
- 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.
- 22
- Poles take LvivOn the night of 21–22 November 1918 the Ukrainians withdrew from Lviv, and in the morning the Poles took the city. On the day of victory a pogrom broke out.
- Pogrom in LvivOn 22–24 November 1918, after the Poles took Lviv, soldiers and civilians looted and burned the Jewish quarter. Between several dozen and 150 Jews were killed.
- 28
- Polish women get the voteOn 28 November 1918 Piłsudski signed the electoral law for the Legislative Sejm. The vote went to every citizen aged 21 and over "without distinction of sex".
- Voluntary Legion of WomenOn 28 November 1918 the first volunteers in Lviv joined Aleksandra Zagórska's women's militia. In December it became the Voluntary Legion of Women.
December
- 26
- West Ukrainian People's RepublicAt the end of 1918 the government of the West Ukrainian People's Republic sat in Tarnopol. It was building an army and preparing union with Dnieper Ukraine.
- Paderewski in PoznańOn 26 December 1918 Ignacy Jan Paderewski arrived in Poznań. Crowds with torches greeted him, and he spoke to the Poles from a window of the Bazar hotel.