SomeFacts | October 18

On this day - October 18

33 — Heartbroken by the deaths of her sons Nero and Drusus, and ...

320 — Pappus of Alexandria, Greek philosopher, observes an eclipse of ...

614 — King Chlothar II promulgates the Edict of Paris (Edictum ...

629 — Dagobert I is crowned King of the Franks.

1009 — The Church of the Holy Sepulchre, a Christian church in ...

1016 — The Danes defeat the English in the Battle of Assandun.

1081 — The Normans defeat the Byzantine Empire in the Battle of ...

1166 — Michael the Syrian, one of the most important Syriac ...

1281 — Pope Martin IV excommunicates King Peter III of Aragon for ...

1356 — Basel earthquake, the most significant historic seismological ...

1540 — Spanish conquistador Hernando de Soto's forces destroy ...

1561 — In Japan the fourth Battle of Kawanakajima is fought between ...

1565 — Ships belonging to the Matsura clan of Japan fail to capture ...

1597 — King Philip II of Spain sends his third and final armada ...

1599 — Michael the Brave, Prince of Wallachia, defeats the Army of ...

1630 — Frendraught Castle in Scotland, the home of James Crichton of ...

1648 — Boston shoemakers form the first American labor organization.

1748 — Signing of the Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle ends the War of the ...

1775 — American Revolutionary War: The Burning of Falmouth (now ...

1775 — African-American poet Phillis Wheatley is freed from slavery.

1779 — American Revolutionary War: The Franco-American Siege of ...

1851 — Herman Melville's Moby-Dick is first published as The ...

1860 — The Second Opium War finally ends at the Convention of Peking ...

1867 — United States takes possession of Alaska after purchasing it ...

1887 — Johannes Brahms conducts the premiere of his Double Concerto, ...

1898 — The United States takes possession of Puerto Rico from Spain.

1900 — Count Bernhard von Bülow becomes chancellor of Germany.

1912 — First Balkan War: King Peter I of Serbia issues a declaration ...

1914 — The Schoenstatt Apostolic Movement is founded in Germany.

1921 — The Crimean Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic is formed as ...

1922 — The British Broadcasting Company (later Corporation) is ...

1929 — The Judicial Committee of the Privy Council overrules the ...

1944 — World War II: The state funeral of Field Marshal Erwin Rommel ...

1944 — World War II: Soviet Union begins the liberation of ...

1945 — Argentine military officer and politician Juan Perón marries ...

1945 — A group of the Venezuelan Armed Forces, led by Mario Vargas, ...

1945 — The USSR's nuclear program receives plans for the United ...

1954 — Texas Instruments announces the Regency TR-1, the first ...

1963 — Félicette, a black and white female Parisian stray cat, ...

1967 — The Soviet probe Venera 4 reaches Venus and becomes the first ...

1977 — German Autumn: A set of events revolving around the kidnapping ...

1978 — Based on the world's first children's art museum, ...

1979 — The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) begins allowing ...

1989 — The Space Shuttle Atlantis launches on STS-34 to deploy the ...

1991 — The Supreme Council of Azerbaijan adopts a declaration of ...

1992 — Merpati Nustantara Airlines Flight 5601 crashes into Mount ...

2003 — Bolivian gas conflict: Bolivian President Gonzalo Sánchez de ...

2007 — Karachi bombing: A suicide attack on a motorcade carrying ...

2019 — Riots in Chile's capital Santiago escalate into open ...

2019 — NASA Astronauts Jessica Meir and Christina Koch take part in ...