On this day: 18 January
Events, births and deaths on 18 January. Every date is checked against Wikidata.
Years ago today
1 year ago2025
- Deaths · Claire van Kampen
10 years ago2016
- Deaths · Glenn Frey
- Deaths · Michel Tournier
- Deaths · Johnny Bach
100 years ago1926
Within 10 years of that
- 1936 · Deaths ·
- 1925 · Births · Gilles Deleuze
- 1919 · Events · Paris Peace Conference
1000 years ago1026
Nothing recorded for that year.
Events · 23
- 1535(Julian date)Lima — capital and largest city of Peru
- 15861586 Tenshō earthquake — Earthquake in Japan
- 1871unification of Germany — creation of a politically and administratively integrated nation state of German-speaking populations on 18 January 1871, in the form of the German Empire
- 1871proclamation of the German Empire — event marking the existence of the German Empire
- 1913Battle of Lemnos — 1913 naval battle during the First Balkan War
- 1919Paris Peace Conference — meeting of the Allied Powers after World War I
- 1932Alt Llobregat insurrection — 1932 Catalonian strike
- 1955Battle of Yijiangshan Islands — 1955 battle in the Chinese Civil War
- 1958Battle of Hayes Pond — 1958 armed confrontation between Ku Klux Klan members and Lumbee Native Americans
- 1960Capital Airlines Flight 20 — 1960 plane crash of a Capital Airlines Vickers Viscount in Charles City County, Virginia, USA
- 19641964 Baihe earthquake — January 1964 earthquake in Taiwan
- 1969United Airlines Flight 266 — 1969 aviation accident
- 1969The University of Tokyo Yasuda Auditorium Incident — New Left occupation incident at the University of Tokyo in which most arrestees were non–University of Tokyo students
- 1976Karantina massacre — Massacre during the Lebanese Civil War
- 1977Granville rail disaster — Australian most-deadly rail disaster
- 19861986 Aerovias Guatemala air crash — 1986 aviation accident in Guatemala
- 1988China Southwest Airlines Flight 4146 — aviation accident
- 1992Deng Xiaoping's southern tour — tour by Deng Xiaoping of southern China from January 18 to February 21 1992
- 20032003 Canberra bushfires — 2003 Bushfires Near Canberra Australia
- 2012protests against SOPA and PIPA — Series of protests from 2011 to 2012
- 2019Tlahuelilpan pipeline explosion — 2019 gasoline pipeline explosion in the state of Hidalgo, Mexico
- 20232023 Brovary helicopter crash — helicopter crash in Brovary, Ukraine
- 20262026 Adamuz train derailments — 2026 crash in Córdoba, Spain
Births · 60
- 1689
- 1752John Nash — British architect (1752–1835)
- 1782Daniel Webster — 14th and 19th United States Secretary of State (1782–1852)
- 1835César Cui — Russian composer and army officer
- 1841Emmanuel Chabrier — French Romantic composer and pianist
- 1849Edmund Barton — Australian politician, first Prime Minister of Australia and founding justice of the High Court of Australia (1849-1920)
- 1867Rubén Darío — Nicaraguan poet, journalist and diplomat (1867–1916)
- 1868Kantarō Suzuki — 29th Prime Minister of Japan (1868-1948)
- 1879Henri Giraud — French general \ (1879-1949)
- 1880Paul Ehrenfest — Austrian and Dutch theoretical physicist (1880–1933)
- 1882A. A. Milne — British author known for creating Winnie-the-Pooh (1882–1956)
- 1892Oliver Hardy — American comic actor famous as one half of Laurel and Hardy (1892–1957)
- 1893Jorge Guillén — Spanish poet (1893–1984)
- 1904Cary Grant — British-American actor (1904–1986)
- 1908Jacob Bronowski — Polish-born British mathematician (1908–1974)
- 1911Danny Kaye — American actor, singer, dancer, and comedian (1911–1987)
- 1911José María Arguedas — Peruvian writer (1911–1969)
- 1915Santiago Carrillo — Spanish politician (1915–2012)
- 1921Yoichiro Nambu — American theoretical physicist (1921-2015)
- 1925Gilles Deleuze — French philosopher (1925–1995)
- 1931Chun Doo-hwan — 11th and 12th President of the Republic of Korea (1931~2021)
- 1932Robert Anton Wilson — American author, futurist, and agnostic mystic (1932-2007)
- 1933John Boorman — British film director, producer and screenwriter
- 1933Ray Dolby — American engineer and inventor of the Dolby noise reduction system (1933-2013)
- 1937John Hume — Irish politician from Northern Ireland (1937–2020)
Deaths · 60
- 52 BCE(Julian date)Publius Clodius Pulcher — Roman politician and street agitator (93–52 BC)
- 748(Julian date)Odilo, Duke of Bavaria — Duke of Bavaria
- 896(Julian date)Khumarawayh ibn Ahmad ibn Tulun — Emir of Egypt from 884 to 896
- 1213(Julian date)Tamar of Georgia — Queen regnant of Georgia from 1184 to 1213
- 1253(Julian date)Henry I of Cyprus — King of Cyprus, 1218-1253
- 1270(Julian date)Margaret of Hungary — Hungarian princess and saint (1242-1270)
- 1357Maria of Portugal — queen consort of Castile
- 1367Peter I of Portugal — King of Portugal from 1357 to 1367
- 1411(Julian date)Jobst of Moravia — Margrave of Moravia, Duke of Luxembourg, and Elector of Brandenburg (1351-1411)
- 1471(Julian date)Go-Hanazono — emperor of Japan
- 1479(Julian date)Louis IX — Duke of Bavaria-Landshut
- 1547(Julian date)Pietro Bembo — Catholic cardinal and poet (1470–1547)
- 1586Margaret of Parma — Habsburg noble (1522-1586)
- 1646Hosokawa Tadaoki — daimyo
- 1677Jan van Riebeeck — Dutch colonial governor (1619–1677)
- 1769Hakuin Ekaku — Japanese Zen Buddhist master (1686-1769)
- 1859Alfred Vail — American inventor (1807–1859)
- 1862John Tyler — president of the United States from 1841 to 1845
- 1873Edward Bulwer-Lytton — British statesman and author (1803–1873)
- 1878Antoine César Becquerel — French scientist and pioneer in the study of electric and luminescent phenomena (1788-1878)
- 1890Amadeo I of Spain — Italian Royal and temporary Head of State of Spain (1845–1890)
- 1896Charles Floquet — French politician (1828-1896)
- 1919Prince John of the United Kingdom — Son of King George V
- 1923Wallace Reid — American actor (1891–1923)
- 1936
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