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Date | Event |
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Jan 18, 336 |
St Mark elected Catholic Pope |
Jan 18, 474 |
Leo II briefly becomes Byzantine emperor. |
Jan 18, 532 |
Nika uprising at Constantinople fails, 30-40,000 die |
Jan 18, 1126 |
Emperor Huizong abdicates the Chinese throne in favour of his son Emperor Qinzong. |
Jan 18, 1307 |
German king Albrecht I makes his son Rudolf king of Bohemia |
Jan 18, 1478 |
Grand Duke Ivan II of Moscow occupies Novgorod |
Jan 18, 1520 |
Christian II of Denmark & Norway defeats Swedes at Lake Asunde |
Jan 18, 1535 |
Francisco Pizarro founds the city of Lima, Peru |
Jan 18, 1591 |
King Naresuan of Siam kills Crown Prince Minchit Sra of Burma in single combat, for which this date is now observed marked as Royal Thai Armed Forces day. |
Jan 18, 1644 |
Perplexed Pilgrims in Boston reported America's 1st UFO sighting |
Jan 18, 1650 |
French Prince Louis II of Condé captured |
Jan 18, 1671 |
Pirate Henry Morgan defeats Spanish defenders, captures Panama |
Jan 18, 1691 |
English king Willem III travels to The Hague |
Jan 18, 1701 |
Frederick I and Sophie Charlotte van Hanover crowned king/queen of Prussia |
Jan 18, 1733 |
1st polar bear exhibited in America (Boston) |
Jan 18, 1776 |
James Wright, Royal Governor of Georgia, is placed under house arrest by Major Joseph Habersham |
Jan 18, 1777 |
San Jose California, founded |
Jan 18, 1778 |
Capt James Cook stumbles over Sandwich Islands (Hawaiian Islands) |
Jan 18, 1779 |
John Dickinson is appointed to be a delegate for Delaware to the Continental Congress |
Jan 18, 1788 |
The first elements of the First Fleet carrying 736 convicts from England to Australia arrives at Botany Bay to set up a penal colony |
Jan 18, 1795 |
French admitted to Amsterdam without resistance |
Jan 18, 1795 |
governor/viceroy Willem V flees Scheveningen to England |
Jan 18, 1817 |
José de San Martín leads a revolutionary army over the Andes to attack Spanish royalists in Chile |
Jan 18, 1840 |
Electro-Magnetic Intelligencer, 1st US electrical journal, appears |
Jan 18, 1850 |
British blockade Piraeus, Greece to enforce mercantile claims |
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