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| January 18th, 2052 (January 18 2052) | Death | Publius Clodius Pulcher (murdered) | |
| January 18th, 2008 (January 18 2008) | Death | Georgia Frontiere, American football team owner (born in 1927) | |
| January 18th, 2008 (January 18 2008) | Death | Frank Lewin, American composer and music theorist (born in 1925) | |
| January 18th, 2008 (January 18 2008) | Death | John Stroger, first African-American Cook County Board President (born in 1929) | |
| January 18th, 2007 (January 18 2007) | Event | The strongest storm in the United Kingdom in 17 years kills 14 people, Germany sees the worst storm since 1999 with 13 deaths. Hurricane Kyrill, causes at least 44 deaths across 20 countries in Western Europe. Other losses include the Container Ship MSC Napoli destroyed by the storm off the coast of Devon, England. | Devo Quotes |
| January 18th, 2007 (January 18 2007) | Death | Brent Liles, American musician (Agent Orange/Social Distortion) (born in 1963) | |
| January 18th, 2006 (January 18 2006) | Death | Jan Twardowski, Polish poet (born in 1915) | |
| January 18th, 2005 (January 18 2005) | Death | Lamont Bentley, American actor (born in 1973) | |
| January 18th, 2003 (January 18 2003) | Event | A bushfire kills 4 people and destroys more than 500 homes in Canberra, Australia. | |
| January 18th, 2003 (January 18 2003) | Death | Edward "The Sheik" Farhat, American professional wrestler (born in 1924) | |
| January 18th, 2002 (January 18 2002) | Event | Sierra Leone Civil War was finally declared over. | |
| January 18th, 2001 (January 18 2001) | Death | Al Waxman, Canadian actor (born in 1935) | |
| January 18th, 2000 (January 18 2000) | Event | The Tagish Lake meteorite impacts the Earth. | |
| January 18th, 2000 (January 18 2000) | Death | Margarete Schutte-Lihotzky, Austrian architect (born in 1897) | |
| January 18th, 1998 (January 18 1998) | Event | Lewinsky scandal: Matt Drudge breaks the Bill Clinton-Monica Lewinsky affair story on his website The Drudge Report. | Bill Clinton Quotes |
| January 18th, 1997 (January 18 1997) | Event | In north west Rwanda, Hutu militia members kill 3 Spanish aid workers, 3 soldiers and seriously wound one other. | |
| January 18th, 1997 (January 18 1997) | Event | Boerge Ousland of Norway becomes the first person to cross Antarctica alone and unaided. | |
| January 18th, 1997 (January 18 1997) | Death | Paul Tsongas, U.S. Senator from Massachusetts (born in 1941) | |
| January 18th, 1996 (January 18 1996) | Death | Nandamuri Taraka Rama Rao, Indian actor (born in 1923) | |
| January 18th, 1995 (January 18 1995) | Death | Adolf Butenandt, German chemist, Nobel laureate (born in 1903) | |
| January 18th, 1995 (January 18 1995) | Death | Ron Luciano, American baseball umpire (born in 1937) | |
| January 18th, 1994 (January 18 1994) | Event | The Cando event, a possible bolide impact in Cando, Spain. Witnesses claim to have seen a fireball in the sky lasting for almost one minute. | |
| January 18th, 1993 (January 18 1993) | Event | For the first time, Martin Luther King, Jr. Day is officially observed in all 50 states. | Martin Luther Quotes |
| January 18th, 1993 (January 18 1993) | Birth | Morgan York, American Actress | |
| January 18th, 1993 (January 18 1993) | Death | Eleanor Hibbert, British author (born in 1906) | |
| January 18th, 1991 (January 18 1991) | Event | Eastern Air Lines goes out of business after 62 years, citing financial problems. | |
| January 18th, 1990 (January 18 1990) | Event | Washington, D.C. Mayor Marion Barry was arrested for drug possession in an FBI sting. | Marion Barry Quotes |
| January 18th, 1990 (January 18 1990) | Death | Rusty Hamer, American actor (born in 1947) | |
| January 18th, 1989 (January 18 1989) | Death | Bruce Chatwin, English novelist (born in 1940) | Bruce Chatwin Quotes |
| January 18th, 1988 (January 18 1988) | Birth | Ronald Guglielmone Jr., American singer-songwriter | |
| January 18th, 1985 (January 18 1985) | Birth | Dale Begg-Smith, Australian freestyle skier | |
| January 18th, 1985 (January 18 1985) | Birth | Riccardo Montolivo, Italian soccer player | |
| January 18th, 1985 (January 18 1985) | Death | Wilfrid Brambell, Irish actor (born in 1912) | |
| January 18th, 1984 (January 18 1984) | Birth | Benji Schwimmer, American dancer | |
| January 18th, 1984 (January 18 1984) | Birth | Michael Kearney, American child prodigy | |
| January 18th, 1984 (January 18 1984) | Birth | Maarja Kivi, Estonian singer | |
| January 18th, 1984 (January 18 1984) | Birth | Seung-Hui Cho, shooter at Virginia Tech | |
| January 18th, 1984 (January 18 1984) | Birth | Kristy Lee Cook, American singer and finalist on American Idol season seven | |
| January 18th, 1984 (January 18 1984) | Death | Vassilis Tsitsanis, Greek singer and songwriter (born in 1915) | |
| January 18th, 1983 (January 18 1983) | Event | The International Olympic Committee restores Jim Thorpe s Olympic medals to his family. | |
| January 18th, 1983 (January 18 1983) | Birth | Samantha Mumba, Irish singer and actress | |
| January 18th, 1982 (January 18 1982) | Birth | Joanna Newsom, American harpist/singer-songwriter | |
| January 18th, 1981 (January 18 1981) | Birth | Kang Dong-won, South Korean model and actor | |
| January 18th, 1981 (January 18 1981) | Birth | Olivier Rochus, Belgian tennis player | |
| January 18th, 1981 (January 18 1981) | Birth | Khari Stephenson, Jamaican footballer | |
| January 18th, 1980 (January 18 1980) | Birth | Robert Green, English footballer | |
| January 18th, 1980 (January 18 1980) | Birth | Julius Peppers, National Football League defensive end | |
| January 18th, 1980 (January 18 1980) | Birth | Jason Segel, American actor | |
| January 18th, 1980 (January 18 1980) | Birth | Estelle Swaray , Singer | |
| January 18th, 1980 (January 18 1980) | Death | Sir Cecil Beaton, English fashion designer (born in 1904) | |
| January 18th, 1979 (January 18 1979) | Birth | Jay Chou, Taiwanese singer and producer | |
| January 18th, 1979 (January 18 1979) | Birth | Paulo Ferreira, Portuguese footballer | |
| January 18th, 1979 (January 18 1979) | Birth | Brian Gionta, American ice hockey player | |
| January 18th, 1979 (January 18 1979) | Birth | Kenyatta Jones, former National Football League player | |
| January 18th, 1978 (January 18 1978) | Event | The European Court of Human Rights finds the United Kingdom government guilty of mistreating prisoners in Northern Ireland, but not guilty of torture. | |
| January 18th, 1978 (January 18 1978) | Birth | Brian Falkenborg, American baseball player | |
| January 18th, 1978 (January 18 1978) | Death | Hasan Askari, Pakistani philosopher, critic and writer (born in 1919) | Philo Quotes |
| January 18th, 1978 (January 18 1978) | Death | Carl Betz, American film and television actor (born in 1921) | |
| January 18th, 1978 (January 18 1978) | Death | Walter H. Thompson, English Scotland Yard detective, bodyguard of Winston Churchill (born in 1890) | Winston Churchill Quotes |
| January 18th, 1977 (January 18 1977) | Event | Scientists identify a previously unknown bacterium as the cause of the mysterious Legionnaires disease. | |
| January 18th, 1977 (January 18 1977) | Event | Australia s worst rail disaster occurs at Granville, Sydney killing 83. | |
| January 18th, 1977 (January 18 1977) | Birth | Curtis Cregan, American actor | |
| January 18th, 1977 (January 18 1977) | Birth | Alina Jidkova, Russian tennis player | |
| January 18th, 1976 (January 18 1976) | Birth | Laurence Courtois, Belgian tennis player | |
| January 18th, 1976 (January 18 1976) | Birth | Damien Leith, Australian Idol 2006 | |
| January 18th, 1974 (January 18 1974) | Event | A Disengagement of Forces agreement is signed between the Israeli and Egyptian governments, ending conflict on the Egyptian front of the Yom Kippur War. | |
| January 18th, 1974 (January 18 1974) | Birth | Michael Tunn, Australian television and radio | |
| January 18th, 1974 (January 18 1974) | Birth | Christian Burns, English musician (BBMak) | |
| January 18th, 1974 (January 18 1974) | Birth | Devon Odessa, American actress | Devo Quotes |
| January 18th, 1974 (January 18 1974) | Birth | Maulik Pancholy, American actor | |
| January 18th, 1974 (January 18 1974) | Birth | Princess Claire of Belgium | |
| January 18th, 1973 (January 18 1973) | Birth | Anthony Koutoufides, Australian rules footballer | |
| January 18th, 1973 (January 18 1973) | Birth | Crispian Mills, British musician (The Jeevas and Kula Shaker) | |
| January 18th, 1972 (January 18 1972) | Birth | Mike Lieberthal, American baseball player | |
| January 18th, 1971 (January 18 1971) | Birth | Jonathan Davis, American singer (KoŸn) | |
| January 18th, 1971 (January 18 1971) | Birth | Christian Fittipaldi, Brazilian race car driver | |
| January 18th, 1971 (January 18 1971) | Birth | Josep Guardiola, Spanish footballer | |
| January 18th, 1971 (January 18 1971) | Birth | Seamus O Regan, Canadian broadcast journalist | |
| January 18th, 1970 (January 18 1970) | Birth | DJ Quik, American rapper | |
| January 18th, 1970 (January 18 1970) | Birth | Peter van Petegem, Belgian cyclist | |
| January 18th, 1970 (January 18 1970) | Death | David O. McKay, president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (born in 1873) | Jesus Christ Quotes |
| January 18th, 1969 (January 18 1969) | Event | United Airlines Flight 266 crashes into Santa Monica Bay resulting in the loss of all 32 passengers and six crew members. | |
| January 18th, 1969 (January 18 1969) | Birth | Jesse L. Martin, American actor and singer | |
| January 18th, 1969 (January 18 1969) | Birth | Batista, American professional wrestler | |
| January 18th, 1969 (January 18 1969) | Birth | Jim O Rourke, American musician and producer (Loose Fur and Wilco) | |
| January 18th, 1969 (January 18 1969) | Death | Hans Freyer, German sociologist (born in 1887) | |
| January 18th, 1968 (January 18 1968) | Birth | Frank Quitely, Scottish comic book artist | |
| January 18th, 1967 (January 18 1967) | Event | Albert DeSalvo, the "Boston Strangler," is convicted of numerous crimes and is sentenced to life in prison. | |
| January 18th, 1967 (January 18 1967) | Birth | Kim Perrot, American basketball player (died in 1999) | |
| January 18th, 1967 (January 18 1967) | Birth | Ivan Zamorano, Chilean footballer | |
| January 18th, 1967 (January 18 1967) | Death | Goose Tatum, American basketball player (born in 1921) | |
| January 18th, 1966 (January 18 1966) | Birth | Alexander Khalifman, Russian chess player | |
| January 18th, 1966 (January 18 1966) | Birth | Andre Ribeiro, Brazilian racing driver | |
| January 18th, 1966 (January 18 1966) | Death | Kathleen Norris, American writer (born in 1880) | |
| January 18th, 1965 (January 18 1965) | Birth | Dave Attell, American writer and comedian | |
| January 18th, 1964 (January 18 1964) | Birth | Jane Horrocks, British actress | |
| January 18th, 1964 (January 18 1964) | Birth | Enrico Lo Verso, Italian actor | |
| January 18th, 1963 (January 18 1963) | Birth | Maxime Bernier, French Canadian politician | |
| January 18th, 1963 (January 18 1963) | Birth | Martin O Malley, Governor of Maryland | |
| January 18th, 1963 (January 18 1963) | Birth | Yury Zakharevich, Soviet Olympic Weightlifter | |
| January 18th, 1963 (January 18 1963) | Death | Hugh Gaitskell, leader of the British Labour Party (born in 1906) | |
| January 18th, 1962 (January 18 1962) | Birth | Alison Arngrim, American actress | |
| January 18th, 1961 (January 18 1961) | Birth | Mark Messier, Canadian ice hockey player | |
| January 18th, 1961 (January 18 1961) | Birth | Peter Beardsley, English footballer | |
| January 18th, 1961 (January 18 1961) | Birth | Jeff Yagher, American actor | |
| January 18th, 1958 (January 18 1958) | Event | Willie O Ree, the first African Canadian National Hockey League player, makes his NHL debut. | |
| January 18th, 1956 (January 18 1956) | Birth | Sharon Mitchell, American porn actress | |
| January 18th, 1956 (January 18 1956) | Birth | Tom Bailey, English singer (Thompson Twins) | |
| January 18th, 1955 (January 18 1955) | Event | Battle of Yijiangshan occurred. | |
| January 18th, 1955 (January 18 1955) | Birth | Kevin Costner, American actor | |
| January 18th, 1955 (January 18 1955) | Birth | Fergus Martin, Irish artist | |
| January 18th, 1954 (January 18 1954) | Birth | Ted DiBiase, Retired Professional Wrestler | |
| January 18th, 1954 (January 18 1954) | Death | Sydney Greenstreet, English actor (born in 1879) | |
| January 18th, 1953 (January 18 1953) | Birth | Brett Hudson, American actor | |
| January 18th, 1952 (January 18 1952) | Birth | R. Stevie Moore, American singer, songwriter, and home recording pioneer | |
| January 18th, 1952 (January 18 1952) | Birth | Michael Behe, American advocate of Intelligent Design | |
| January 18th, 1952 (January 18 1952) | Death | Curly Howard, American actor and comedian (born in 1903) | |
| January 18th, 1951 (January 18 1951) | Birth | Bob Latchford, English footballer | |
| January 18th, 1951 (January 18 1951) | Birth | Bram Behr, Surinamese journalist (died in 1982) | |
| January 18th, 1950 (January 18 1950) | Birth | Gilles Villeneuve, Canadian race car driver (died in 1982) | |
| January 18th, 1949 (January 18 1949) | Birth | Philippe Starck, French designer | |
| January 18th, 1949 (January 18 1949) | Birth | Bill Keller, American newspaper editor | |
| January 18th, 1947 (January 18 1947) | Birth | Takeshi Kitano, Japanese actor and director | |
| January 18th, 1946 (January 18 1946) | Birth | Joseph Deiss, Swiss Federal Councilor | |
| January 18th, 1945 (January 18 1945) | Event | Liberation of the Budapest ghetto by the Red Army. | |
| January 18th, 1945 (January 18 1945) | Birth | Jose Luis Perales, Spanish singer | |
| January 18th, 1944 (January 18 1944) | Event | The Metropolitan Opera House in New York City hosts a jazz concert for the first time. The performers were Louis Armstrong, Benny Goodman, Lionel Hampton, Artie Shaw, Roy Eldridge and Jack Teagarden. | Louis Armstrong Quotes |
| January 18th, 1944 (January 18 1944) | Event | Soviet forces liberate Leningrad, effectively ending a three year Nazi siege, known as the Siege of Leningrad. | |
| January 18th, 1944 (January 18 1944) | Birth | Paul Keating, twenty-fourth Prime Minister of Australia | Paul Keating Quotes |
| January 18th, 1944 (January 18 1944) | Birth | Carl Morton, American baseball player (died in 1983) | |
| January 18th, 1943 (January 18 1943) | Event | Warsaw Ghetto Uprising: The first uprising of Jews in the Warsaw Ghetto. | |
| January 18th, 1943 (January 18 1943) | Birth | Kay Granger, American politician | |
| January 18th, 1941 (January 18 1941) | Birth | Denise Bombardier, Quebec journalist, television host and novelist | |
| January 18th, 1941 (January 18 1941) | Birth | Bobby Goldsboro, American country/pop singer | |
| January 18th, 1941 (January 18 1941) | Birth | David Ruffin, American singer (The Temptations) (died in 1991) | |
| January 18th, 1940 (January 18 1940) | Birth | Pedro Rodriguez, Mexican racing driver (died in 1971) | |
| January 18th, 1940 (January 18 1940) | Death | Kazimierz Tetmajer, Polish writer (born in 1865) | |
| January 18th, 1938 (January 18 1938) | Birth | Curt Flood, American baseball player (died in 1997) | |
| January 18th, 1937 (January 18 1937) | Birth | John Hume, Northern Irish politician, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize in 1998 | |
| January 18th, 1936 (January 18 1936) | Death | Rudyard Kipling, British writer, Nobel laureate (born in 1865) | Rudyard Kipling Quotes |
| January 18th, 1935 (January 18 1935) | Birth | Albert Millaire, Quebec actor and theatre director | |
| January 18th, 1935 (January 18 1935) | Birth | Jon Stallworthy, English poet | |
| January 18th, 1935 (January 18 1935) | Birth | Gad Yaacobi, Israeli minister (died in 2007) | |
| January 18th, 1934 (January 18 1934) | Birth | Raymond Briggs, English writer and illustrator | |
| January 18th, 1933 (January 18 1933) | Birth | John Boorman, Irish film director | |
| January 18th, 1933 (January 18 1933) | Birth | Ray Dolby, American inventor (Dolby noise reduction system) | |
| January 18th, 1932 (January 18 1932) | Birth | Robert Anton Wilson, American author (died in 2007) | Robert Anton Wilson Quotes |
| January 18th, 1931 (January 18 1931) | Birth | Chun Doo-hwan, President of South Korea | |
| January 18th, 1927 (January 18 1927) | Birth | Sundaram Balachander, Indian veena player (died in 1990) | |
| January 18th, 1925 (January 18 1925) | Birth | Gilles Deleuze, French philosopher (died in 1995) | Philo Quotes |
| January 18th, 1923 (January 18 1923) | Death | Wallace Reid, Actor (born in 1891) | |
| January 18th, 1922 (January 18 1922) | Birth | Bob Bell, American clown (died in 1997) | |
| January 18th, 1919 (January 18 1919) | Event | World War I: The Paris Peace Conference opens in Versailles, France. | |
| January 18th, 1919 (January 18 1919) | Event | Ignacy Jan Paderewski becomes Prime Minister of the newly independent Poland. | |
| January 18th, 1919 (January 18 1919) | Event | Bentley Motors Limited is founded. | |
| January 18th, 1918 (January 18 1918) | Birth | Gustave Gingras, French Canadian physician (died in 1996) | |
| January 18th, 1917 (January 18 1917) | Birth | Wang Yung-ching, Taiwanese businessman | An Wang Quotes |
| January 18th, 1916 (January 18 1916) | Event | A 611 gram chondrite type meteorite stikes a house near the village of Baxter in Stone County, Missouri. | |
| January 18th, 1915 (January 18 1915) | Event | Japan issues the "Twenty-One Demands" to the Republic of China in a bid to increase its power in East Asia. | |
| January 18th, 1915 (January 18 1915) | Birth | Vassilis Tsitsanis, Greek singer and songwriter (died in 1984) | |
| January 18th, 1914 (January 18 1914) | Birth | Arno Schmidt, German author (died in 1979) | |
| January 18th, 1913 (January 18 1913) | Event | A Greek flotilla defeats the Ottoman Navy in the Naval Battle of Lemnos during the First Balkan War, securing the islands of the Northern Aegean Sea for Greece. | |
| January 18th, 1913 (January 18 1913) | Birth | Danny Kaye, American actor (died in 1987) | Danny Kaye Quotes |
| January 18th, 1911 (January 18 1911) | Event | Eugene B. Ely lands on the deck of the USS Pennsylvania stationed in San Francisco harbor, marking the first time an aircraft landed on a ship. | |
| January 18th, 1910 (January 18 1910) | Birth | Kenneth E. Boulding, English economist (died in 1983) | |
| January 18th, 1908 (January 18 1908) | Birth | Jacob Bronowski, Polish-born mathematician, poet, and physicist (died in 1974) | |
| January 18th, 1908 (January 18 1908) | Birth | Princess Sibylla of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (died in 1972) | |
| January 18th, 1905 (January 18 1905) | Birth | Joseph Bonanno, Italian-born gangster (died in 2002) | |
| January 18th, 1904 (January 18 1904) | Birth | Cary Grant, English actor (died in 1986) | |
| January 18th, 1904 (January 18 1904) | Birth | Anthony Galla-Rini, American accordionist (died in 2006) | |
| January 18th, 1903 (January 18 1903) | Event | President Theodore Roosevelt sends a radio message to King Edward VII: the first transatlantic radio transmission originating in the United States. | Theodore Roosevelt Quotes |
| January 18th, 1901 (January 18 1901) | Birth | Ivan Petrovsky, Russian mathematician (died in 1973) | |
| January 18th, 1896 (January 18 1896) | Event | The X-ray machine is exhibited for the first time. | |
| January 18th, 1896 (January 18 1896) | Birth | C. M. Eddy, Jr., American writer (died in 1967) | |
| January 18th, 1896 (January 18 1896) | Death | Charles Floquet, French statesman (born in 1828) | |
| January 18th, 1892 (January 18 1892) | Birth | Oliver Hardy, American comedian and actor (died in 1957) | |
| January 18th, 1892 (January 18 1892) | Birth | Paul Rostock, German surgeon (died in 1956) | |
| January 18th, 1892 (January 18 1892) | Death | Anton Anderledy, Swiss Superior General of the Society of Jesus (born in 1819) | |
| January 18th, 1888 (January 18 1888) | Birth | Thomas Sopwith, British aviation pioneer (died in 1989) | |
| January 18th, 1886 (January 18 1886) | Event | Modern field hockey is born with the formation of The Hockey Association in England. | |
| January 18th, 1886 (January 18 1886) | Birth | Clara Nordstrom, German writer and translator (died in 1962) | |
| January 18th, 1886 (January 18 1886) | Death | Baldassare Verazzi, Italian painter (born in 1819) | |
| January 18th, 1884 (January 18 1884) | Event | Dr. William Price attempts to cremate the body of his infant son, Jesus Christ Price, setting a legal precedent for cremation in the United Kingdom. | William King Quotes |
| January 18th, 1882 (January 18 1882) | Birth | A. A. Milne, English author (died in 1956) | A. A. Milne Quotes |
| January 18th, 1881 (January 18 1881) | Birth | Gaston Gallimard, French publisher (died in 1975) | |
| January 18th, 1879 (January 18 1879) | Birth | Henri Giraud, French general (died in 1949) | |
| January 18th, 1878 (January 18 1878) | Death | Antoine Cesar Becquerel, French physicist (born in 1788) | |
| January 18th, 1877 (January 18 1877) | Birth | Samuel Zemurray, U.S. businessman (d.1961) | |
| January 18th, 1873 (January 18 1873) | Death | Edward George Bulwer-Lytton, English author (born in 1803) | |
| January 18th, 1871 (January 18 1871) | Event | Wilhelm I of Germany is proclaimed the first German Emperor in the Hall of Mirrors of the Palace of Versailles towards the end of the Franco-Prussian War. The empire was known as The Second Reich to the Germans. | Wilhelm Reich Quotes |
| January 18th, 1867 (January 18 1867) | Birth | Ruben Dario, Nicaraguan Journalist, Diplomat, Poet (died in 1916) | Ruben Dario Quotes |
| January 18th, 1862 (January 18 1862) | Death | John Tyler, 10th President of the United States (born in 1790) | John Tyler Quotes |
| January 18th, 1861 (January 18 1861) | Event | American Civil WarGeorgia joins South Carolina, Florida, Mississippi, and Alabama in seceding from the United States. | |
| January 18th, 1856 (January 18 1856) | Birth | Daniel Hale Williams, African-American surgeon (died in 1931) | |
| January 18th, 1854 (January 18 1854) | Birth | Thomas Watson, American telephone pioneer (died in 1934) | |
| January 18th, 1850 (January 18 1850) | Birth | Seth Low, American politician (died in 1916) | |
| January 18th, 1849 (January 18 1849) | Birth | Edmund Barton, 1st Prime Minister of Australia (died in 1920) | |
| January 18th, 1848 (January 18 1848) | Birth | Ioan Slavici, Transylvanian writer (died in 1925) | |
| January 18th, 1842 (January 18 1842) | Birth | Albert Alonzo Ames, Mayor of Minneapolis (died in 1911) | |
| January 18th, 1841 (January 18 1841) | Birth | Emmanuel Chabrier, French composer (died in 1894) | |
| January 18th, 1840 (January 18 1840) | Birth | Henry Austin Dobson, English poet (died in 1921) | Henry Austin Dobson Quotes |
| January 18th, 1815 (January 18 1815) | Birth | Constantin von Tischendorf, German biblical scholar (died in 1874) | |
| January 18th, 1813 (January 18 1813) | Birth | Joseph Glidden, American farmer who patented barbed wire (died in 1906) | |
| January 18th, 1803 (January 18 1803) | Death | Ippolit Bogdanovich, Russian poet (born in 1743) | |
| January 18th, 1795 (January 18 1795) | Birth | Anna Pavlovna of Russia, queen of The Netherlands (died in 1865) | |
| January 18th, 1788 (January 18 1788) | Event | The first elements of the First Fleet carrying 736 convicts from England to Australia arrives at Botany Bay. | |
| January 18th, 1782 (January 18 1782) | Birth | Daniel Webster, American statesman (died in 1852) | Daniel Webster Quotes |
| January 18th, 1779 (January 18 1779) | Birth | Peter Roget, British lexicographer (died in 1869) | |
| January 18th, 1778 (January 18 1778) | Event | James Cook is the first known European to discover the Hawaiian Islands, which he names the "Sandwich Islands". | |
| January 18th, 1777 (January 18 1777) | Event | Representatives of the New Hampshire Grants declare the independence of the Vermont Republic from Britain. | |
| January 18th, 1701 (January 18 1701) | Event | Frederick I becomes King of Prussia. | |
| January 18th, 1689 (January 18 1689) | Birth | Montesquieu, French writer (died in 1755) | |
| January 18th, 1688 (January 18 1688) | Birth | Lionel Sackville, 1st Duke of Dorset, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland (died in 1765) | |
| January 18th, 1677 (January 18 1677) | Death | Jan van Riebeeck, Dutch merchant (born in 1619) | |
| January 18th, 1672 (January 18 1672) | Birth | Antoine Houdar de la Motte, French writer (died in 1731) | |
| January 18th, 1670 (January 18 1670) | Event | Henry Morgan captures Panama. | |
| January 18th, 1664 (January 18 1664) | Death | Moses Amyraut, French theologian (born in 1596) | |
| January 18th, 1641 (January 18 1641) | Birth | Francois-Michel le Tellier, Marquis de Louvois, French war minister (died in 1691) | |
| January 18th, 1586 (January 18 1586) | Death | Margaret of Austria, regent of The Netherlands (born in 1522) | |
| January 18th, 1562 (January 18 1562) | Event | Pope Pius IV reopens the Council of Trent for its third and final session. | |
| January 18th, 1543 (January 18 1543) | Birth | (baptised) Alfonso Ferrabosco (I), Italian composer (died in 1588) | |
| January 18th, 1535 (January 18 1535) | Event | Spanish conquistador Francisco Pizarro founded Lima, the capital of Peru. | |
| January 18th, 1520 (January 18 1520) | Event | King Christian II of Denmark and Norway defeats the Swedes at Lake Asunden. | |
| January 18th, 1519 (January 18 1519) | Birth | Isabella Jagiello, queen of Hungary (died in 1559) | |
| January 18th, 1486 (January 18 1486) | Event | King Henry VII of England marries Elizabeth of York, daughter of Edward IV. | |
| January 18th, 1471 (January 18 1471) | Death | Emperor Go-Hanazono of Japan (born in 1419) | |
| January 18th, 1425 (January 18 1425) | Death | Edmund de Mortimer, 5th Earl of March, English politician (born in 1391) | |
| January 18th, 1367 (January 18 1367) | Death | King Peter I of Portugal (born in 1320) | |
| January 18th, 1126 (January 18 1126) | Event | Emperor Huizong abdicates the Chinese throne in favour of his son Emperor Qinzong. | |
| January 18th, 0885 (January 18 0885) | Birth | Daigo, Emperor of Japan (died in 930) | |
| January 18th, 0532 (January 18 0532) | Event | Nika riots in Constantinople fail. | |
| January 18th, 0474 (January 18 0474) | Event | Leo II briefly becomes Byzantine emperor. | |
| January 18th, 0474 (January 18 0474) | Death | Leo I, Byzantine Emperor (born in 401) | |
| January 18th, 0350 (January 18 0350) | Event | Generallus Magnentius deposes Roman Emperor Constans and proclaims himself Emperor. | |
