On this day: 18 March
Events, births and deaths on 18 March. Every date is checked against Wikidata.
Years ago today
1 year ago2025
- Events · Operation Might and Sword
10 years ago2016
- Deaths · Guido Westerwelle
- Deaths · Jan Němec
- Deaths · Barry Hines
100 years ago1926
- Births · Peter Graves
- Events · Academy of Athens
- Events · March 18 Massacre
1000 years ago1026
Within 100 years of that
- 978 · Deaths · Edward the Martyr
- 1075 · Births · Al-Zamakhshari
- 1076 · Deaths · Ermengarde of Anjou, Duchess of Burgundy
Events · 30
- 1068(Julian date)1068 Near East earthquake — series of earthquakes in the Arabian Peninsula and Palestine
- 1793Battle of Neerwinden — 1793 battle during the War of the First Coalition
- 1848Five Days of Milan — insurrection and a major event in the Revolutionary Year of 1848
- 1861Spanish Province of Santo Domingo — 1861 Santo Domingo Rejoins Spain as an overseas province
- 1871Paris Commune — revolutionary city council of Paris in 1871
- 1900AFC Ajax — Dutch association football team
- 1921Peace of Riga — peace treaty between Soviet Russia, Ukraine and Poland, signed on March 18, 1921 in Riga
- 1925Tri-State Tornado — deadliest tornado in United States history
- 1926Academy of Athens — academy of sciences in Greece
- 1926March 18 Massacre — massacre by the Peiyang Government in 1926
- 1938
- 1942War Relocation Authority — US government agency established to handle the internment of Japanese Americans during World War II
- 1953Yenice–Gönen earthquake of 1953 — 7.3-magnitude earthquake that struck Balıkesir and Çanakkale in northwestern Turkey on March 18, 1953
- 1962Evian Accords — treaty signed by France and the Provisional Government of the Algerian Republic to end the Algerian War
- 1965Voskhod 2 — Soviet crewed spacecraft
- 1966United Arab Airlines Flight 749 — 1966 aviation accident
- 1969Operation Menu — 1969 military operation
- 19701970 Cambodian coup d'état — coup d'état in Cambodia
- 19801980 Plesetsk launch pad disaster — Vostok-2M rocket explosion during refueling
- 1985Neighbours — long-running Australian soap opera
- 19901990 East German general election — election in East Germany
- 1994Washington Agreement — ceasefire agreement between the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina and the Croatian Republic of Herzeg-Bosnia
- 1996Ozone Disco Club fire — 1996 fire in Quezon City, Philippines
- 1997Stavropolskaya Aktsionernaya Avia Flight 1023 — 1997 aviation accident
- 2014Republic of Crimea — unrecognized administrative division of Russia
- 2014Sunflower Student Movement — 2014 protest movement in Taiwan
- 2015Bardo National Museum attack — 2015 mass killing of hostages by militants in Tunis
- 20192019 U.S. airstrike in Baghuz — incident concealed by the U.S. military
- 20222022 Moscow rally — political rally
- 2025Operation Might and Sword — military operation of IDF in January 2025
Births · 60
- 1075(Julian date)Al-Zamakhshari — Persian scholar
- 1496(Julian date)Mary Tudor — Queen of France from 1514 to 1515 (1496-1533)
- 1609(Julian date)Frederick III of Denmark — King of Denmark and Norway from 1648 to 1670
- 1634Madame de Lafayette — French writer (1634-1693)
- 1690Christian Goldbach — German mathematician
- 1782John C. Calhoun — vice president of the United States from 1825 to 1832 (1782–1850)
- 1813Friedrich Hebbel — German poet and dramatist (1813-1863)
- 1828Randal Cremer — English politician (1828–1908)
- 1837Grover Cleveland — 22nd & 24th President of the United States (1885–1889; 1893–1897)
- 1842Stéphane Mallarmé — French Symbolist poet (1842–1898)
- 1844Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov — Russian composer (1844–1908)
- 1848Princess Louise, Duchess of Argyll — Viceregal consort of Canada (1848–1939)
- 1858Rudolf Diesel — German inventor and mechanical engineer (1858–1913)
- 1869Neville Chamberlain — Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1937 to 1940
- 1877Edgar Cayce — purported clairvoyant healer and psychic (1877–1945)
- 1893Wilfred Owen — English poet and soldier (1893-1918)
- 1903Galeazzo Ciano — Italian noble, diplomat and politician (1903-1944)
- 1905Robert Donat — English actor (1905–1958)
- 1913René Clément — French film director and screenwriter (1913–1996)
- 1913Werner Mölders — German officer and fighter pilot during World War II (1913-1941)
- 1922Seymour Martin Lipset — American sociologist (1922–2006)
- 1926Peter Graves — American actor (1926-2010)
- 1928Fidel Ramos — President of the Philippines from 1992 to 1998
- 1928Lennart Carleson — Swedish mathematician
- 1932John Updike — American novelist, poet (1932–2009)
Deaths · 60
- 978(Julian date)Edward the Martyr — King of the English (975-978)
- 1076(Julian date)Ermengarde of Anjou, Duchess of Burgundy — Countess consort of Gâtinais and later Duchess consort of Burgundy
- 1086(Julian date)Anselm of Lucca — Catholic cardinal and saint
- 1227(Julian date)Honorius III — head of the Catholic Church from 1216 to 1227
- 1314(Julian date)Jacques de Molay — Grand Master of the Knights Templar
- 1314Geoffroi de Charney — French Knight Templar
- 1321Máté Csák III — Hungarian nobleman (1260–1321)
- 1584(Julian date)Ivan the Terrible — Tsar of all Russia from 1547 to 1584
- 1703Maria de Dominici — Maltese artist, sculptor (1645–1703)
- 1745(Julian date)Robert Walpole — British statesman and art collector, 1st Earl of Orford (1676–1745)
- 1768Laurence Sterne — Anglo-Irish novelist and Anglican cleric (1713–1768)
- 1781Anne Robert Jacques Turgot — French economist and statesman (1727–1781)
- 1845Johnny Appleseed — American nurseryman and missionary (1774–1845)
- 1856Henry Pottinger — 1st Governor of Hong Kong (1789-1856)
- 1871Augustus De Morgan — British mathematician and logician (1806–1871)
- 1898Matilda Joslyn Gage — American writer, Native American civil rights activist, abolitionist, freethinker
- 1899Othniel Charles Marsh — American paleontologist (1831–1899)
- 1907Marcellin Berthelot — French chemist and politician (1827-1907)
- 1913George I of Greece — King of Greece (r. 1863–1913)
- 1930Jean Leon Gerome Ferris — American painter (1863–1930)
- 1936Eleftherios Venizelos — Greek politician, former Prime Minister of Greece (1864–1936)
- 1941Henri Cornet — French racing cyclist (1884–1941)
- 1947William Crapo Durant — American automotive businessman (1861–1947)
- 1956Louis Bromfield — American author and conservationist (1896-1956)
- 1964Norbert Wiener — American mathematician, scientist in cybernetics and artificial intelligence (1894–1964)
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