On June 18, history records 46 notable events, 234 famous births and 105 deaths, spanning the years 618 to 1757.
Events on this day include: Li Yuan becomes Emperor Gaozu of Tang, initiating three centuries of Tang dynasty rule over China. (618); Ali becomes Caliph of the Rashidun Caliphate (656).
Notable people born on June 18 include Eleanor of England, Countess of Bar (1269), John V Palaiologos (1332), Ottaviano Petrucci (1466).
Notable figures who died on this day include Leo III the Isaurian (741), Zhang Hao (Wu) (908), Sophia of Hungary (1095).
Events on 18 June 46
See all →Li Yuan becomes Emperor Gaozu of Tang, initiating three centuries of Tang dynasty rule over China.
Byzantine-Rus' War: A fleet of about 200 Rus' vessels sails into the Bosphorus and starts pillaging the suburbs of the Byzantine capital Constantinople.
Battle of Civitate: Three thousand horsemen of Norman Count Humphrey rout the troops of Pope Leo IX.
Five Canterbury monks see what is possibly the Giordano Bruno crater being formed. It is believed that the current oscillations of the Moon's distance from the Earth (on the order of meters) are a result of this collision.
The Parliament of Ireland meets at Castledermot in County Kildare, the first definitively known meeting of this Irish legislature.
French forces under the leadership of Joan of Arc defeat the main English army under Sir John Fastolf at the Battle of Patay. This turns the tide of the Hundred Years' War.
The charter of the Massachusetts Bay Colony is revoked via a scire facias writ issued by an English court.
Battle of Kolín between Prussian forces under Frederick the Great and an Austrian army under the command of Field Marshal Count Leopold Joseph von Daun in the Seven Years' War.
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Birthdays on 18 June 234
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Deaths on 18 June 105
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