Timeline: John BILLSON: Mills/Rushton Family History

1918 - 1918 (0 years)

	Date	Event(s)
1	1918	1918: Vote for women over 30, men over 21 (except peers, lunatics and felons) 1918: War of Independence in Ireland 18 Jan 1918: Bentley Motors founded 8 Mar 1918: Start of world-wide 'flu pandemic Jul 1918: Second Battle of the Marne: last major German offensive in WW1 (Jul-Aug) 1 Oct 1918: Arab forces under Lawrence of Arabia capture Damascus 11 Nov 1918: Armistice signed Dec 1918: First woman elected to House of Commons, Countess Markiewicz as a Sinn Féin member refused to take her seat