* 1918 – World War I: The Battle of the Lys – the Portuguese Expeditionary Corps is crushed by the German forces during what is called the Spring Offensive on the Belgian region of Flanders.

During a pause in operations necessitated by the Spring Offensive in 1918 on the Western Front joint infantry and mounted infantry attacks towards Amman and Es Salt resulted in retreats back to the Jordan Valley which continued to be occupied by mounted divisions during the summer of 1918.

* 1918 – World War I: The first phase of the German Spring Offensive, Operation Michael, begins.

This left the British forces vulnerable to German attack, and after the German Spring Offensives Lloyd George misled the House of Commons in claiming that Haig's forces were stronger at the start of 1918 than they had been a year earlier-in fact the increase was in the number of Chinese, Indian and black South African labourers, and Haig had fewer infantry, holding a longer stretch of front.

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The German Spring Offensive of 1918 was made possible by the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk that marked the end of the conflict on the Eastern Front.

In early 1918, during the German Spring Offensive, Noel Pemberton Billing, a right-wing Member of Parliament, published an article entitled The Cult of the Clitoris, in which he accused members of Ross ' circle of being at the centre of 47, 000 homosexual traitors who were betraying the nation to the Germans.

Image: IR Lübeck 030 – Meesen. jpg | Mesen on 10 April 1918 during the Fight of the Kemmel as part of the Spring Offensive

The Second Battle of the Marne (), or Battle of Reims ( 15 July – 6 August 1918 ) was the last major German Spring Offensive on the Western Front during the First World War.

These infiltration tactics proved very successful during the German 1918 Spring Offensive against Allied forces.

German Spring Offensive in 1918 ( 2001 )

During World War I, the German army had developed the idea of breaking through a static front by concentration of combined arms, which they applied in their 1918 Spring Offensive.

Redmond was succeeded in the party leadership by John Dillon and spared the experience of further political setbacks when after the German Spring Offensive of April 1918, Britain, caught in a desperate life or death struggle with Imperial Germany, foolishly attempted to introduce conscription in Ireland linked with implementation of Home Rule.

French was pleased at the removal of Robertson and Derby early in 1918, and during the German Spring Offensive urged that Haig be sacked and replaced by Plumer.

Despite being surprised by the German offensive on the Chemin des Dames, the Allied armies under Foch's command ultimately held the advance of the German forces during the great Spring Offensive of 1918 and at the Second Battle of Marne in July 1918.

The Convention's work was disrupted in March 1918 by Redmond's death and the fierce German Spring Offensive on the Western Front, causing Britain to attempt to extend conscription to Ireland unwisely linked with immediate implementation of Home Rule.

Heavy losses on the Western Front following Operation Michael after the great German Spring Offensive in 1918, resulted in the transfer of ten of the division's battalions from Palestine to France, their place being taken by Indian Army battalions.

Thomas William Spring Rice was the father of the diplomat Sir Cecil Spring Rice, British Ambassador to the United States from 1912 to 1918.

In March 1918 the Germans launched their Spring Offensive near Saint-Quentin and as the Allied line collapsed, the German forces advanced swiftly into the Somme valley.

* Early Spring, 1918 – Planned date for the first revolt, which is crushed by the Iron Heel due to its poor coordination and planning

* 23 March / 24: Joined 6 Corps ( Lt-General Sir Aylmer Haldane ) in Third Army, initially in reserve, then at Ervillers, to defend the line against the German Seventeenth Army ( General Otto von Below ) on the right ( i. e. north ) wing of the " Michael 1 " German Spring Offensive ( Kaiserschlacht ) in the First Battle of the Somme ( 1918 ).

The remains of the division survived the Spring battles and received reinforcements in time for Haig's Allied offensives of August 1918 onward.

A small Chinese garden, known as the Tianjin Garden, is located at the northern end of Spring Street.

Image: Spring Outing of the Tang Court. jpg | Spring Outing of the Tang Court, by Zhang Xuan, 8th century, Chinese

* In Spring 2007, a team ( Steven Zhang and Christine Sun ) from Wootton's Research, Design, and Experimentation Club won 1st place at the Montgomery Science Fair, exploring the validity of hormesis.

Spring Outing of the Tang Court, by Zhang Xuan.

According to the New History of the Five Dynasties, which the Spring and Autumn Annals of the Ten Kingdoms ( 十國春秋 ) also adopted, he became a servant of Li Rang ( 李讓 ), who later loaned money to Zhu and became an adoptive son of Zhu's, with his name changed to Zhu Yourang ( 朱友讓 ); the Spring and Autumn Annals of the Ten Kingdoms further indicated that also serving as Zhu Yourang's servants then were later prominent military / political figures Dong Zhang and Kong Xun.

Dicky Cheung is married to Zhang Qian who had a miscarriage in Spring of 2008.

* Easter, or Resurrection Day ( Christians )-celebrated the First Sunday after the first full moon on or after the Spring Equinox, near March 21st ( between March 22 and April 25 )

* The first day of Takayama Spring Festival ( Takayama, Gifu, Japan )

Savka Dabčević-Kučar, Croatian Spring participant ; Europe's first female prime minister

In around 500 BCE, after the Zhou state weakened and China moved into the Spring and Autumn Period, the classic period of Chinese philosophy began ( it is an interesting fact that this date nearly coincides with the emergence of the first Greek philosophers ).

Although tradition holds that in the Zhou, the year began on the new moon which preceded the winter solstice, the Spring and Autumn Annals seem to indicate that ( in Lu at least ) the Yin calendar ( the calendar used in Shang dynasty, with years beginning on the first new moon after the winter solstice ) was in use until the middle of the 7th century, and that the beginning of the year was shifted back one month around 650 BC.

In 1913 — the year of Edmund Husserl's Ideas, Niels Bohr's quantized atom, Ezra Pound's founding of imagism, the Armory Show in New York, and, in Saint Petersburg, the " first futurist opera ," Victory Over the Sun — another Russian composer Igor Stravinsky, working in Paris for Sergei Diaghilev and the Ballets Russes, composed The Rite of Spring for a ballet, choreographed by Vaslav Nijinsky, that depicted human sacrifice.

While February 1 was the first day of Spring, May 1 was the first day of summer ; hence, the summer solstice on June 25 ( now June 21 ) was Midsummer.

Grand Prismatic Spring in Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming, USA Yellowstone was the first national park in the world.

File: Spring Sandstorm Scours China. jpg | The first day of spring 2010 brought a massive sandstorm blowing from Inner Mongolia

< i > The Prague Spring and Its Aftermath: Czechoslovak Politics, 1968 – 1970 .</ i > Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 1997, pp 67 .</ ref > The first tangible manifestation of this new policy of openness was the production of the previously hard-line communist weekly < i > Literarni noviny </ i >, renamed < i > Literarni listy </ i >.< ref > Bren, Paulina.

Heda Margolius Kovály also ends her memoir Under a Cruel Star with a first hand account of the Prague Spring and the subsequent invasion, and her reflections upon these events.

Sima Tan wanted to follow the Annals of Spring and Autumn-the first chronicle in the history of Chinese literature.

It is also believed that the last day of Winter ( the white ), which is the first day of Spring ( also known as Nowrouz ), is the day that all the " Good " s will over come all the " Bad " s for ever.

* Spring – Possible first performance of William Shakespeare's tragedy Hamlet.

In 2010, a team of UK scientists funded by BBSRC announced they had decoded the wheat genome for the first time ( 95 % of the genome of a variety of wheat known as Chinese Spring line 42 ).

In the musical Spring Awakening, based on the play of the same title by Frank Wedekind, schoolboys study the Latin text, and the first verse of Book 1 is incorporated into the number " All That's Known ".

He first achieved international fame with three ballets commissioned by the impresario Sergei Diaghilev and first performed in Paris by Diaghilev's Ballets Russes: The Firebird ( 1910 ), Petrushka ( 1911 ) and The Rite of Spring ( 1913 ).

* Spring – The first complete printed translation of the New Testament into English by William Tyndale arrives in England from Germany, having been printed in Worms.

The first, from 722 to 481 BC, is called the Spring and Autumn Period, after a famous historical chronicle of the time ; the second is known as the Warring States Period ( 403 – 221 BC ), after another famous chronicle and initiated by the partitioning of Jin.

Williams spent the spring and summer of 1948 in Rome in the company of a teenaged Italian boy to whom he provided financial assistance for several years afterward ( a situation which planted the seed of Williams ' first novel The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone ).

Also in 1927, she appeared alongside her good friend, William Haines in Spring Fever, it would be the first of three films in which they worked together.

By Spring 1646, his father was losing the war, and Charles left England due to fears for his safety, going first to the Isles of Scilly, then to Jersey, and finally to France, where his mother was already living in exile and his first cousin, eight-year-old Louis XIV, was king.