Timeline December 1918

Events in December 1918 4

• 1918 Frederick Charles of Hesse King-elect of Finland Frederick Charles was elected King of Finland but never ruled because Finland abandoned plans for monarchy.
• 1918 Iceland becomes a sovereign state Act of Union places Iceland in personal union with Denmark The Danish-Icelandic Act of Union came into force, recognizing Iceland as a fully sovereign kingdom in personal union with Denmark, sharing only a monarch and foreign policy. The agreement ended direct Danish governance of Icelandic affairs. Iceland became a fully independent republic in 1944.
• 1918 Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes proclaimed South Slavic peoples unite in a new Balkan kingdom Serbia, joined by the State of Slovenes, Croats and Serbs formed from former Austro-Hungarian territories, proclaimed the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes under the Serbian Karađorđević dynasty. The new state united most South Slavic peoples for the first time under one government. It was renamed Yugoslavia in 1929.
• 1918 – 2008 Alexander Solzhenitsyn (1918-2008) Died 3 August 2008, aged 89 Russian novelist and Nobel laureate whose works, including The Gulag Archipelago, exposed the brutality of the Soviet labor camp system. His writing and exile from the USSR made him one of the twentieth century's most significant literary dissidents.