Spanish flu pandemic
1918–1920 · Event
Influenza pandemic kills 50-100 million worldwide; deadlier than WWI; misnamed for early Spanish press coverage.
On these timelines: Master, Medicine & Public Health, World War I
Around 1918
- Russian Revolution (1917)
- Founding of the Soviet Union (1922)
- Pop music: the 1920s (1920)
- Pop music: the 1910s (1910)
- Easter Rising / Irish War of Independence (1916)
- Discovery of penicillin (1928)
- Treaty of Versailles (1919)
- Xinhai Revolution (1911)
- Weimar Republic (1919)
- Japanese annexation of Korea (1910)