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Events from the year1918 inItaly.

• Monarch –Victor Emmanuel III (1900–1946)
• Prime Minister –Vittorio Emanuele Orlando (1917–1919)
• Population – 35,922,000

• Due toWorld War I and theSpanish flu the Italian population declined by 612,937 people

In the autumn of 1917 at theBattle of Caporetto, the Germans and Austrians had defeated the Italians who fell back to thePiave. TheRoyal Italian Army lost over 300,000 men. Italy reorganizes the army under the new commander GeneralArmando Diaz and receives reinforcements of theAllied powers.

• June 10 – TheAustro-HungariandreadnoughtbattleshipSMSSzent István is sunk by two ItalianMAS motortorpedo boats off theDalmatian coast.
• June 15–23 –Battle of the Piave River, the last major Austro-Hungarian attack on theItalian Front, which fails. The Battle of the Piave is the decisive battle ofWorld War I on the Italian Front.

• August 9 –Flight over Vienna. Italian poet and nationalistGabriele D'Annunzio flies overVienna anddropped 50,000 leaflets on a three-colored card (green, white, and red: the colors of theItalian flag).
• August 13-September 3 –Battle of San Matteo on thePunta San Matteo (3678 m) whereAustro-Hungarian troops had set up a fortified position with smallartillery pieces, from which they were able to shell the road to theGavia Pass and thus harass the Italian supply convoys. Italian troops conquer the top but it is retaken by Austro-Hungarian troops.

• October 24-November 3 –Battle of Vittorio Veneto. The Italian victory marked theend of the war on the Italian Front, secured the dissolution of theAustro-Hungarian Empire and contributed to theend of the First World War less than two weeks later.^[1][2]

• November 3 –Armistice of Villa Giusti ends warfare between Italy andAustria-Hungary on theItalian Front duringWorld War I. Thearmistice was signed in theVilla Giusti, outside ofPadua in theVeneto, northernItaly, and was to take effect 24 hours later. The occupation of allTyrol, includingInnsbruck, was completed in the following days.^[3]
• November 9 – After the Austrian defeat, Italian troops unilaterally occupied territories of Austria-Hungary promised to Italy by the secret 1915Pact of London. The city ofSplit inDalmatia was not one of those areas and was placed under Allied military occupation; but the Italian minority publicly demanded the annexation of the city into Italy, supported by some Italian political circles. Two Frenchdestroyers entered the port of Split. The Italians displayed the flag of Italy in the windows of their homes to give the impression citizens supported Italy's bid for annexation. This however incited a riot and the flags were torn down. The incident would lead toa series of violent fights in Split in the next two years between Croats and Italians.

• September 9 –Oscar Luigi Scalfaro, 9th President of the Italian Republic (died 2012)
• December 27 –Mario Pedini, politician (died 2003)

• February 10 –Ernesto Teodoro Moneta, Italian pacifist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1833)
• April 14 –Paolo Pizzetti, Italiangeodesist,astronomer,geophysicist andmathematician (b. 1860)
• April 30 –Amilcare Cipriani, Italian socialist, anarchist and patriot (b. 1844)
• June 10 –Arrigo Boito, Italian poet and composer (b. 1842)
• June 16 –Attilio Deffenu, Italian journalist, exponent of Sardinian autonomism and a syndicalist who died in theBattle of the Piave River (b. 1890)
• October 19 –Prince Umberto, Count of Salemi, died ofSpanish flu (b. 1889)

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