saves the life of the 9th Company Commander. 4 August: Adolf Hitler awarded the Iron Cross, 1st Class. 13 October: Adolf Hitler gassed near Ypres. 3 November: Kiel mutiny triggered the German revolution. 7 November: 100,000 workers march on the Royal House of Wittelsbach. Kaiser Wilhelm II flees. 8 November: All 22 of Germany's lesser kings, princes, grand dukes, and ruling dukes have been deposed. Kaiser Wilhelm told to abdicate. 9 November: Emil Eichhorn, radical leftist of the Independent Socialists, leads an armed mob and seizes the HQ of Berlin; Kaiser Wilhelm consents to abdicate; Social Democrats demand government from Prince Max; Friedrich Ebert assumes the chancellery; First German Republic established. 11 November: World War I ends. 19 November: Hitler discharged from hospital at Pasewalk. 25 December: German first World War ex-servicemens' organization, Der Stahlhelm founded by former German Army reserve officer and industrialist Franz Seldte in Magdeburg. Mid-December: First modern Freikorps unit formed, the Maercker Volunteer Rifles (Freiwilliges Landesjägerkorps). 1919 January: Independent Socialists and Spartacist League staged large protests, known as the Spartacist uprising; sections of Berlin occupied; decision made for the National Assembly to meet in the city of Weimar instead of Berlin. 5 January: Anton Drexler, along with Dietrich Eckart, Karl Harrer, Gottfried Feder and Hermann Esser, founds the German Workers' Party (DAP) from the branch of "Free Workers' Committee for a good Peace" league and the Political Workers' Circle in Munich. 10 January: Battle for Berlin begins; Counter-revolution with Freikorps takes crucial role. 13 January: Battle of Berlin ends. 15 January: Communist leaders Karl Liebknecht and Rosa Luxemburg are murdered by Freikorps officers March: Adolf Hitler finishes job of guarding Russian prisoners. 3 March: 2nd Battle for Berlin; Communists seize Berlin; Gustav Noske appointed dictator of Germany. 7 March: Communist Strike Committee withdraws proclamation and makes peace overtures to government. 10 March: Gustav Noske orders Peoples' Naval Division disbanded. Battle for Berlin has ended. 14 April: Freikorps suppress communists in Dresden. 16 April: "Battle" of the Bavarian government troops at Dachau; Communists defeat Republican forces. 18 April: Freikorps suppress communists in Brunswick. 27 April: Battle for Munich occurs between Communists and Freikorps units. 2 May: City of Munich taken; not declared secure until 6 May; approximately 1200 Communists killed. 10 May: Freikorps suppress communists in Leipzig. 22 June: German Reichstag ratifies the Versailles Treaty. 28 June: Versailles Treaty signed in the Hall of Mirrors (Palace of