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What happened on September 18
On September 18 history recorded 98 notable events. 160 people who left a mark were born on this day, and 103 died. Here is the full almanac.
- 98events
- 160births
- 103deaths
- 14observances
Highlights
Highlights
96
Nerva, the first of the "Five Good Emperors" of ancient Rome, came to power following the assassination of his predecessor Domitian.
AD 96 (XCVI) was a leap year starting on Friday of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Valens and Vetus. The denomination AD 96 for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calend
96
Nerva, the first of the "Five Good Emperors" of ancient Rome, came to power following the assassination of his predecessor Domitian.
AD 96 (XCVI) was a leap year starting on Friday of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Valens and Vetus. The denomination AD 96 for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calend
1048Byzantine–Seljuk wars: Byzantine forces defeated their Seljuk opponents in the flanks of the nocturnal Battle of Kapetron, but learned of their Georgian allies' defeat in the centre the next morning.
The Byzantine–Seljuk wars were a series of conflicts in the Middle Ages between the Byzantine Empire and the Seljuk Empire. They shifted the balance of power in Asia Minor, Armenia and Syria, sparking multiple wars for control over these regions, including the
September 18
On this day
I century
- 96
96Emperor Domitian is assassinated as a result of a plot by his wife Domitia and two Praetorian prefects. Nerva is then proclaimed as his successor.
IV century
XI century
XII century
XV century
XVI century
XVII century
XVIII century
- 1714
1714George I arrives in Great Britain after becoming king on August 1. - 1739
1739The Treaty of Belgrade is signed, whereby Austria cedes lands south of the Sava and Danube rivers to the Ottoman Empire. - 1759
1759French and Indian War: The Articles of Capitulation of Quebec are signed. - 1793
1793The first cornerstone of the United States Capitol is laid by George Washington.
XIX century
- 1809
1809The Royal Opera House in London opens. - 1810
1810First Government Junta in Chile. Though supposed to rule only during the Peninsular War in Spain, it is in fact the first step towards independence from Spain, and is commemorated as such. - 1812
1812The 1812 Fire of Moscow dies down after destroying more than three-quarters of the city. Napoleon returns from the Petrovsky Palace to the Moscow Kremlin, spared from the fire. - 1837
1837Tiffany & Co. (first named Tiffany & Young) is founded by Charles Lewis Tiffany and Teddy Young in New York City. The store is called a "stationery and fancy goods emporium". - 1838
1838The Anti-Corn Law League is established by Richard Cobden. - 1850
1850The U.S. Congress passes the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850. - 1851
1851First publication of The New-York Daily Times, which later becomes The New York Times. - 1860
1860Second Opium War: Battle of Zhangjiawan: Now heading towards Beijing after having recently occupied Tianjin, the allied Anglo-French force engages and defeats a larger Qing Chinese army at Zhangjiawan. - 1860
1860Wars of Italian Unification: Battle of Castelfidardo: Royal Sardinian Army defeats forces of the Papal States, resulting in the conquest of Umbria and Marche by the Kingdom of Italy. - 1862
1862The Confederate States celebrate for the first and only time a Thanksgiving Day. - 1863
1863American Civil War: The Battle of Chickamauga begins between Confederate and Union forces. It involves the second highest amount of casualties for any American Civil War battle apart from Gettysburg. - 1864
1864American Civil War: John Bell Hood begins the Franklin–Nashville Campaign in an unsuccessful attempt to draw William Tecumseh Sherman back out of Georgia. - 1867
1867The first provincial election for the Nova Scotia Legislative Assembly after Canada's Confederation returns a large majority for the Anti-Confederation Party, led by William Annand, who becomes Premier. - 1867
1867The fourth and current State Constitution of Maryland is ratified by voters. - 1870
1870During an expedition to the Wyoming Territory, Henry D. Washburn observes and names the Old Faithful Geyser. - 1873
1873The U.S. bank Jay Cooke & Company declares bankruptcy, contributing to the Panic of 1873. - 1879
1879The Blackpool Illuminations are switched on for the first time. - 1882
1882The Pacific Stock Exchange opens. - 1885
1885Five Chinese people were lynched outside of Pierce City in the Idaho Territory of the United States. - 1897
1897Veal Oscar, a dish of veal, seafood, asparagus, and Bernaise sauce, is first served at the Grand Hotel in Stockholm, in honour of the 25th anniversary of the reign of King Oscar II of Sweden and Norway. - 1898
1898The Fashoda Incident triggers the last war scare between Britain and France.
XX century
- 1906
1906The 1906 Hong Kong typhoon kills an estimated 10,000 people. - 1910
1910In Washington, D.C., George Owen Squier demonstrated the first system to allow multiplexing of telephone transmissions, sending a message between two laboratories of the U.S. Signal Corps. - 1914
1914The Irish Home Rule Act becomes law, but is delayed until after World War I. - 1915
1915The Saturday Evening Post publishes the short story "Extricating Young Gussie" by P.G. Wodehouse, featuring the first appearance of Bertie Wooster and his valet Jeeves. - 1919
1919Fritz Pollard becomes the first African American to play professional football for a major team, the Akron Pros. - 1919
1919In the Netherlands, a law granting full voting rights to women is granted royal assent by Queen Wilhelmina. - 1921
1921Rif War: In Ajdir, Spanish Morocco, a secessionist group of Berbers led by Abd el-Krim proclaim the Republic of the Rif, in rebellion against the Sultan of Morocco and the Spanish Army. French and Spanish forces suppress the Republic by May 1926. - 1922
1922The Kingdom of Hungary is admitted to the League of Nations. - 1924
1924The U.S. ends its military occupation of the Dominican Republic, after invading in May 1916 to force the Dominican government to pay its debts to European creditors. - 1926
1926A hurricane devastates Miami, Florida, killing 372 people. - 1927
1927The Columbia Broadcasting System goes on the air. - 1928
1928Juan de la Cierva makes the first Autogyro crossing of the English Channel. - 1931
1931Imperial Japan instigates the Mukden incident as a pretext to invade and occupy Manchuria. - 1932
1932The body of actress Peg Entwistle is discovered by police, two days after her suicide by jumping off of the Hollywoodland sign. - 1934
1934The Soviet Union is admitted to the League of Nations. - 1939
1939World War II: The Polish government of Ignacy Mościcki flees to Romania. - 1939
1939World War II: The radio show Germany Calling begins transmitting Nazi propaganda. - 1941
1941World War II: The Soviet Union introduces conscription for all males between the ages of 16 and 50. - 1943
1943World War II: Adolf Hitler orders the deportation of Danish Jews. - 1944
1944World War II: The British submarine HMS Tradewind torpedoes Jun'yō Maru, killing 5,600, mostly slave labourers and POWs. - 1944
1944World War II: Operation Market Garden results in the liberation of Eindhoven. - 1944
1944World War II: The Battle of Arracourt begins. - 1945
1945General Douglas MacArthur moves his general headquarters from Manila to Tokyo. - 1947
1947The National Security Act reorganizes the United States government's military and intelligence services. - 1948
1948Operation Polo is terminated after the Indian Army accepts the surrender of the army of Hyderabad. - 1948
1948Margaret Chase Smith of Maine becomes the first woman elected to the United States Senate without completing another senator's term. - 1950
1950Korean War: U.S. Eighth Army and United Nations forces break out of the Pusan Perimeter in southeast Korea. - 1950
1950TV Tupi Difusora, the first television station to broadcast in Brazil, begins transmissions on Channel 3 in São Paulo. - 1954
1954Finnish president J. K. Paasikivi becomes the first Western head of state to be awarded the highest honor of the Soviet Union, the Order of Lenin. - 1955
1955A four-person landing party, led by Lt.-Cdr. Desmond Scott RN, disembarks from a Royal Navy helicopter and raises the Union Flag on Rockall, claiming the uninhabited Atlantic island for the United Kingdom. - 1958
1958The Bank of America introduces its first credit card, the BankAmericard (later renamed the VISA Card), in a test market in Fresno County, California. - 1960
1960Fidel Castro arrives in New York City as the head of the Cuban delegation to the United Nations. - 1961
1961United Nations Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjöld dies in an air crash while attempting to negotiate peace in the Katanga region of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. - 1962
1962Burundi, Jamaica, Rwanda and Trinidad and Tobago are admitted to the United Nations. - 1962
1962Aeroflot Flight 213 crashes into a mountain near Chersky Airport, killing 32 people. - 1964
1964The wedding of Constantine II of Greece and Princess Anne-Marie of Denmark takes place in Athens. - 1964
1964The first television adaptation of Charles Addams's "The Addams Family" premieres on ABC Television. - 1965
1965Mel Brooks and Buck Henry's spy-comedy series Get Smart premieres on NBC Television. - 1973
1973The Bahamas, East Germany and West Germany are admitted to the United Nations. - 1974
1974Hurricane Fifi strikes Honduras with 110 mph winds, killing 5,000 people. - 1977
1977Voyager I takes the first distant photograph of the Earth and the Moon together. - 1980
1980Soyuz 38 carries two cosmonauts (including one Cuban) to the Salyut 6 space station. - 1980
1980A fuel leak from a Titan II intercontinental ballistic missile at a USAF base near Damascus, Arkansas, results in an explosion in a missile silo, killing one person and injuring 21 others. - 1981
1981The Assemblée Nationale votes to abolish capital punishment in France. - 1984
1984Joe Kittinger completes the first solo balloon crossing of the Atlantic. - 1988
1988The 8888 Uprising in Myanmar comes to an end. - 1988
1988General Henri Namphy, president of Haiti, is ousted from power in a coup d'état led by General Prosper Avril. - 1988
1988The Magna Charta Universitatum, asserting key principles essential to the free operation of universities, is signed in Bologna by the rectors of 388 institutions of higher learning, to commemorate the 900th anniversary of the University of Bologna. - 1989
1989An attempted coup d'état against Burkina Faso president Blaise Compaoré is uncovered and foiled. - 1990
1990Liechtenstein becomes a member of the United Nations. - 1992
1992An explosion rocks Giant Mine at the height of a labor dispute, killing nine replacement workers in Yellowknife, Canada. - 1997
1997United States media magnate Ted Turner donates US$1 billion to the United Nations. - 1997
1997The Anti-Personnel Mine Ban Convention is adopted.
XXI century
- 2001
2001First mailing of anthrax letters from Trenton, New Jersey in the 2001 anthrax attacks. - 2006
2006The CW Television Network debuts in the US, following the merger of UPN and The WB. - 2007
2007Buddhist monks join anti-government protesters in Myanmar, starting what some call the Saffron Revolution. - 2009
2009After 72 years on radio and television, CBS Television broadcasts the final episode of Guiding Light, the longest-running soap opera in American history. - 2010
2010Philippe Croizon becomes the first quadruple amputee to swim across the English Channel. - 2011
2011The 2011 Sikkim earthquake is felt across northeastern India, Nepal, Bhutan, Bangladesh and southern Tibet. - 2013
2013A VIA Rail train crashes into a double-decker bus at a train station in Ottawa, Canada, killing six people and injuring 35 others. - 2014
2014Scotland votes against independence from the United Kingdom, by 55% to 45%. - 2015
2015Two security personnel, 17 worshippers in a mosque, and 13 militants are killed during a Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan attack on a Pakistan Air Force base on the outskirts of Peshawar. - 2016
2016The 2016 Uri attack in Jammu and Kashmir, India by terrorist group Jaish-e-Mohammed results in the deaths of nineteen Indian Army soldiers and all four attackers. - 2017
2017Toy retail chain Toys "R" Us files for bankruptcy protection in the United States and Canada. - 2018
2018Cannabis is legalized in South Africa, through a ruling of the Constitutional Court.
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Holidays and observances
- Christian feast day: Constantius (Theban Legion)
- Christian feast day: Edward Bouverie Pusey (Episcopal Church)
- Christian feast day: Eustorgius I
- Christian feast day: Joseph of Cupertino
- Christian feast day: Juan Macias
- Christian feast day: Methodius of Olympus
- Christian feast day: Richardis
- Christian feast day: September 18 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
- Day of National Music (Azerbaijan)
- Island Language Day (Okinawa Prefecture, Japan)
- National Day or Dieciocho (Chile)
- National HIV/AIDS and Aging Awareness Day (United States)
- Navy Day (Croatia)
- World Water Monitoring Day
Frequently asked questions
What happened on September 18?
98 documented historical events happened on September 18, from antiquity to the present day. The best known is this: Nerva, the first of the "Five Good Emperors" of ancient Rome, came to power following the assassination of his predecessor Domitian. On the same day, in another year: Nerva, the first of the "Five Good Emperors" of ancient Rome, came to power following the assassination of his predecessor Domitian. On Almanaccolo every event is listed in chronological order, grouped by century, and links to the Wikipedia article it comes from, so you can always read further or check the source. Alongside the events you find who was born and who died on this date, and which observances are celebrated around the world.
Who was born on September 18?
160 people with a Wikipedia article were born on September 18, including June Foray, Henry Wittenberg, Jack Warden. The list spans every era and every field — art, science, politics, sport, entertainment — ordered by year of birth, from the earliest to the most recent. The six featured people are those most has been written about: the ordering uses the length of their Wikipedia article as an indicator of prominence. For each one you find their occupation, year of birth and a link to the full biography.
Who died on September 18?
103 people with a Wikipedia article died on September 18, including AD 411, Eric II of Denmark, Louis VII of France. The list is in chronological order by year of death and spans all of documented history, from antiquity to the present day. For each person you find their occupation, the year and a link to the Wikipedia biography, where the full story and its sources can be read.
What is celebrated on September 18?
14 observances are celebrated on September 18 around the world: Christian feast day: Constantius (Theban Legion), Christian feast day: Edward Bouverie Pusey (Episcopal Church), Christian feast day: Eustorgius I, Christian feast day: Joseph of Cupertino, Christian feast day: Juan Macias, Christian feast day: Methodius of Olympus. The list gathers national holidays, international days and religious or civil observances falling on this date in different countries, as recorded on Wikipedia. Some are fixed and recur on the same day every year; others depend on the local calendar. Each links to the article explaining its origin and meaning.
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