On this day: 18 April
Events, births and deaths on 18 April. Every date is checked against Wikidata.
Years ago today
1 year ago2025
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10 years ago2016
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100 years ago1926
Within 10 years of that
- 1927 · Births · Samuel P. Huntington
- 1927 · Births · Tadeusz Mazowiecki
- 1936 · Deaths · Ottorino Respighi
1000 years ago1026
Within 100 years of that
- 1025 · Events · Kingdom of Poland
- 963 · Deaths · Stephen Lekapenos
Events · 26
- 1025(Julian date)Kingdom of Poland — Polish state from the coronation of the first King Bolesław I the Brave in 1025 to the union with Lithuania and the rule of the Jagiellon dynasty in 1385
- 1506(Julian date)St. Peter's Basilica — church in Vatican City
- 16891689 Boston revolt — April 1689 revolt in Boston
- 1738Royal Academy of History — Spanish institution that studies history
- 1797Treaty of Leoben — 1797 treaty during the War of the First Coalition
- 1847Battle of Cerro Gordo — 1847 battle of the Mexican-American War
- 1864Battle of Dybbøl — battle in Denmark 1864
- 1864Battle of Poison Spring — 1864 battle of the American Civil War
- 19061906 San Francisco earthquake — major earthquake that struck San Francisco and the coast of Northern California
- 1942Doolittle Raid — first air raid on the Japanese mainland conducted by the U.S. military on April 18, 1942
- 1943Operation Vengeance — 1943 American military operation to kill Japanese Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto
- 1947Operation Big Bang — planned explosion that occurred in Helgoland Archipelago
- 1951Treaty of Paris — treaty signed in 1951 that established the European Coal and Steel Community
- 1955Asian–African Conference — 1955 meeting of Asian and African states in Bandung, West Java, Indonesia
- 1961Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations — treaty that lays the framework for most diplomatic relationships
- 1972East African Airways Flight 720 — Flight between Addis Ababa and Rome crashed on 18 April 1972
- 1978Ba Chúc massacre — genocidal massacre in Vietnam
- 1980Zimbabwe — sovereign state in southern Africa
- 1980Prime Minister of Zimbabwe — former political office of Zimbabwe
- 19831983 United States embassy bombing — 1983 suicide bombing in Beirut, Lebanon
- 1988Operation Praying Mantis — 1988 United States naval offensive against Iran during the Iran-Iraq War
- 1991Hong Kong Science Museum — science museum
- 19961996 Qana massacre — 1996 bombardment
- 20022002 Pirelli Tower plane crash — April 18, 2002 plane crash into the upper floors of the Pirelli Tower in Milan, Italy
- 2007Qinghe Special Steel Corporation disaster — 2007 industrial disaster in Qinghe District, China
- 20262026 Kyiv shooting — mass shooting in Kyiv, Ukraine
Births · 60
- 359(Julian date)Gratian — Roman emperor from 367 to 383
- 1480(Julian date)Lucrezia Borgia — Spanish-Italian duchess-consort of Ferrara, Modena and Reggio (1480-1519)
- 1503Henri II of Navarre — king of Navarre
- 1580(Julian date)Thomas Middleton — English playwright and poet
- 1590Ahmed I — 14th Sultan of the Ottoman Empire (1603–1617)
- 1605Giacomo Carissimi — Italian composer (1605–1674)
- 1772David Ricardo — British banker, classical economist and politician (1772-1823)
- 1819Franz von Suppè — Austrian composer and conductor (1819–1895)
- 1819Carlos Manuel de Céspedes del Castillo — Cuban revolutionary hero, plantation, poet, musician; 1st (wartime) President of Cuba (1816-1874)
- 1838Paul-Émile Lecoq de Boisbaudran — French chemist (1838–1912)
- 1857Clarence Darrow — American lawyer and politician (1857–1938)
- 1874Ivana Brlić-Mažuranić — Croatian writer (1874–1938)
- 1882Leopold Stokowski — British-born American conductor (1882–1977)
- 1902Giuseppe Pella — Italian politician (1902-1981)
- 1905George H. Hitchings — Nobel Prize-winning American physician
- 1907Miklós Rózsa — Hungarian-American composer (1907–1995)
- 1917Frederica of Hanover — Queen consort of Greece as the wife of King Paul; daughter of Ernest Augustus, Duke of Brunswick (1887-1953)
- 1918André Bazin — French film critic and theorist (1918–1958)
- 1918Gabriel Axel — Danish film director (1918-2014)
- 1922Barbara Hale — American actress (1922–2017)
- 1927Samuel P. Huntington — American political scientist (1927–2008)
- 1927Tadeusz Mazowiecki — Polish politician and prime minister (1927-2013)
- 1940Joseph L. Goldstein — American biochemist
- 1941Michael D. Higgins — President of Ireland (2011–2018; 2018–2025)
- 1942Jochen Rindt — German racing driver (1942–1970)
Deaths · 49
- 850(Julian date)Perfectus — Spanish saint
- 963(Julian date)Stephen Lekapenos — Byzantine emperor
- 1161(Julian date)Theobald of Bec — Abbot of Bec; Archbishop of Canterbury
- 1176(Julian date)Galdino della Sala — Christian saint
- 1552(Julian date)John Leland — English poet and antiquary
- 1556(Julian date)Luigi Alamanni — Italian poet
- 1587John Foxe — 16th-century English historian
- 1674John Graunt — British demographer and statistician
- 1689George Jeffreys, 1st Baron Jeffreys — Welsh judge, aka the Hanging Judge (1645–1689)
- 1732Louis Feuillée — French scientist (1660-1732)
- 1742Arvid Horn — Swedish politician (1664-1742)
- 1794Charles Pratt, 1st Earl Camden — English lawyer, judge and Whig politician; (1714-1794)
- 1796Johan Wilcke — Swedish physicist (1732-1796)
- 1802Erasmus Darwin — English physician (1731-1802)
- 1832Jeanne-Élisabeth Chaudet — French painter (1767-1832)
- 1859Tatya Tope — leader in the Indian Rebellion of 1857
- 1864Juris Alunāns — Latvian poet, publicist and linguist (1832–1864)
- 1873Justus von Liebig — German chemist (1803-1873)
- 1898Gustave Moreau — 19th century French Symbolist painter (1826-1898)
- 1905Enoch Mankayi Sontonga — South African composer (1873-1905)
- 1906Luis Martín — Spanish author (1846-1906)
- 1917Vladimir Serbsky — Russian psychiatrist (1858–1917)
- 1923Savina Petrilli — religious figure (1851-1923)
- 1936Ottorino Respighi — Italian composer, musicologist and conductor
- 1938Phil Bryant — American archer (1878–1938)
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