About May 18
May 18, 2025 is the 138th day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 227 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Sunday.
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Taurus is the sun sign of a person born on this day. Emerald is the modern birthstone for this month. Sapphire is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.
According to the lunisolar Chinese calendar, there are 275 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On May 18
- 332 –Constantine the Great announced free distributions of food to the citizens in Constantinople.
- 1268 –The Principality of Antioch, a crusader state, falls to the Mamluk Sultan Baibars in the Battle of Antioch.
- 1302 –Bruges Matins, the nocturnal massacre of the French garrison in Bruges by members of the local Flemish militia.
- 1756 –The Seven Years’ War begins when Great Britain declares war on France.
- 1763 –Fire destroys a large part of Montreal, Quebec.
- 1803 –Napoleonic Wars: The United Kingdom revokes the Treaty of Amiens and declares war on France.
- 1804 –Napoleon Bonaparte is proclaimed Emperor of the French by the French Senate.
- 1843 –The Disruption in Edinburgh of the Free Church of Scotland from the Church of Scotland.
- 1848 –Opening of the first German National Assembly (Nationalversammlung) in Frankfurt, Germany.
- 1860 –Abraham Lincoln wins the Republican Party presidential nomination over William H. Seward, who later becomes the United States Secretary of State.
- 1900 –The United Kingdom proclaims a protectorate over Tonga.
- 1926 –Evangelist Aimee Semple McPherson disappears while visiting a Venice, California beach.
- 1933 –New Deal: President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs an act creating the Tennessee Valley Authority.
- 1953 –Jackie Cochran becomes the first woman to break the sound barrier.
- 1958 –An F-104 Starfighter sets a world speed record of 1,404.19 mph (2,259.82 km/h).
- 1965 –Israeli spy Eli Cohen was hanged in Damascus, Syria.
- 1980 –Gwangju Massacre: students in Gwangju, South Korea begin demonstrations calling for democratic reforms.
- 1993 –EU - riots in Nørrebro, Copenhagen caused by the approval of the four Danish exceptions in the Maastricht Treaty referendum. Police opened fire against civilians for the first time since World War II and injured 11 demonstrators. In total 113 bullets are fired.
- 2006 –The post Loktantra Andolan government passes a landmark bill curtailing the power of the monarchy and making Nepal a secular country.
- 2009 –Sri Lankan Civil War: The LTTE are defeated by the Sri Lankan government, ending almost 26 years of fighting between the two sides.
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