SomeFacts | January 18

On this day - January 18

350 — General Magnentius is proclaimed emperor by Roman aristocrats ...

474 — Seven-year-old Leo II succeeds his maternal grandfather Leo I ...

532 — Nika riots in Constantinople fail.

1126 — Emperor Huizong abdicates the Chinese throne in favour of his ...

1486 — King Henry VII of England marries Elizabeth of York, daughter ...

1562 — Pope Pius IV reopens the Council of Trent for its third and ...

1586 — The magnitude 7.9 Tenshō earthquake strikes Honshu, Japan, ...

1670 — Henry Morgan captures Panama.

1701 — Frederick I crowns himself King in Prussia in Königsberg.

1778 — James Cook is the first known European to discover the ...

1788 — The first elements of the First Fleet carrying 736 convicts ...

1806 — Jan Willem Janssens surrenders the Dutch Cape Colony to the ...

1866 — Wesley College is established in Melbourne, Australia.

1871 — Wilhelm I of Germany is proclaimed Kaiser Wilhelm in the Hall ...

1886 — Modern field hockey is born with the formation of The Hockey ...

1896 — An X-ray generating machine is exhibited for the first time by ...

1911 — Eugene B. Ely lands on the deck of the USS Pennsylvania ...

1913 — First Balkan War: A Greek flotilla defeats the Ottoman Navy in ...

1915 — Japan issues the "Twenty-One Demands" to the ...

1919 — Ignacy Jan Paderewski becomes Prime Minister of the newly ...

1919 — World War I: The Paris Peace Conference opens in Versailles, ...

1932 — Alt Llobregat insurrection breaks out in Central Catalonia, ...

1941 — World War II: British troops launch a general ...

1943 — Warsaw Ghetto Uprising: The first uprising of Jews in the ...

1945 — World War II: Liberation of Kraków, Poland by the Red Army.

1958 — Willie O'Ree, the first Black Canadian National Hockey ...

1960 — Capital Airlines Flight 20 crashes into a farm in Charles City ...

1967 — Albert DeSalvo, the "Boston Strangler", is convicted ...

1969 — United Airlines Flight 266 crashes into Santa Monica Bay ...

1972 — Members of the Mukti Bahini lay down their arms to the ...

1974 — A Disengagement of Forces agreement is signed between the ...

1976 — Lebanese Christian militias kill at least 1,000 in Karantina, ...

1977 — SFR Yugoslavia's Prime minister, Džemal Bijedić, his wife ...

1977 — Australia's worst rail disaster occurs at Granville, ...

1977 — Scientists at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention ...

1978 — The European Court of Human Rights finds the United ...

1981 — Phil Smith and Phil Mayfield parachute off a Houston ...

1983 — The International Olympic Committee restores Jim Thorpe's ...

1986 — An Aerovías Sud Aviation Caravelle crashes on approach to ...

1988 — China Southwest Airlines Flight 4146 crashes near Chongqing ...

1990 — Washington, D.C., Mayor Marion Barry is arrested for drug ...

1993 — Martin Luther King, Jr. Day is officially observed for the ...

2002 — The Sierra Leone Civil War is declared over.

2003 — A bushfire kills four people and destroys more than 500 homes ...

2005 — The Airbus A380, the world's largest commercial jet, is ...

2007 — The strongest storm in the United Kingdom in 17 years kills 14 ...

2008 — The Euphronios Krater is unveiled in Rome after being returned ...

2012 — More than 115,000 websites engage in an online protest against ...

2018 — A bus catches fire on the Samara–Shymkent road in Yrgyz ...

2019 — An oil pipeline explosion near Tlahuelilpan, Hidalgo, Mexico, ...

2023 — A helicopter crash in Ukraine leaves 14 people dead, including ...

2025 — The popular social media app, TikTok, is banned in the United ...

2026 — At least 45 people are killed and 292 others injured after two ...