July 18 Historical Events

The following events took place on July 18. The list is arranged in chronological order.

Found 39 events. Showing 1 - 30.

• 390 BC
  Roman-Gaulish Wars: Battle of the Allia: A Roman army is defeated by raiding Gauls, leading to the subsequent sacking of Rome.
• 64
  The Great Fire of Rome causes widespread devastation and rages on for six days, destroying half of the city.
• 362
  Roman–Persian Wars: Emperor Julian arrives at Antioch with a Roman expeditionary force (60,000 men) and stays there for nine months to launch a campaign against the Persian Empire.
• 645
  Chinese forces under general Li Shiji besiege the strategic fortress city of Anshi (Liaoning) during the Goguryeo–Tang War.
• 1290
  King Edward I of England issues the Edict of Expulsion, banishing all Jews (numbering about 16,000) from England; this was Tisha B'Av on the Hebrew calendar, a day that commemorates many Jewish calamities.
• 1334
  The bishop of Florence blesses the first foundation stone for the new campanile (bell tower) of the Florence Cathedral, designed by the artist Giotto di Bondone.
• 1342
  Mu'izz al-Din Husayn defeats the Sarbadars in the Battle of Zava.
• 1389
  France and England agree to the Truce of Leulinghem, inaugurating a 13-year peace, the longest period of sustained peace during the Hundred Years’ War.
• 1391
  Tokhtamysh–Timur war: Battle of the Kondurcha River: Timur defeats Tokhtamysh of the Golden Horde in present-day southeast Russia.
• 1555
  The College of Arms is reincorporated by Royal charter signed by Queen Mary I of England and King Philip II of Spain.
• 1812
  The Treaties of Orebro ends both the Anglo-Russian and Anglo-Swedish Wars.
• 1841
  Coronation of Emperor Pedro II of Brazil.
• 1857
  Louis Faidherbe, French governor of Senegal, arrives to relieve French forces at Kayes, effectively ending El Hajj Umar Tall’s war against the French.
• 1862
  First ascent of Dent Blanche, one of the highest summits in the Alps.
• 1863
  American Civil War: Second Battle of Fort Wagner: One of the first formal African American military units, the 54th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry, supported by several white regiments, attempts an unsuccessful assault on Confederate-held Battery Wagner.

• 1870
  The First Vatican Council decrees the dogma of papal infallibility.
• 1914
  The U.S. Congress forms the Aviation Section, U.S. Signal Corps, giving official status to aircraft within the U.S. Army for the first time.
• 1925
  Adolf Hitler publishes his personal manifesto Mein Kampf.
• 1936
  An army uprising in Spanish Morocco starts Spanish Civil War.
• 1942
  World War II: The Germans test fly the Messerschmitt Me 262 using its jet engines for the first time.
• 1944
  World War II: Hideki Tōjō resigns as Prime Minister of Japan because of numerous setbacks in the war effort.
• 1966
  Human spaceflight: Gemini 10 is launched from Cape Kennedy on a 70-hour mission that includes docking with an orbiting Agena target vehicle.
• 1966
  Australian children’s television series Play School airs for the first time, going on to become the longest-running children’s show in Australia, and the second longest running children’s show in the world
• 1968
  Intel is founded in Mountain View, California.
• 1969
  After a party on Chappaquiddick Island, Senator Ted Kennedy from Massachusetts drives his car off a bridge and his passenger, Mary Jo Kopechne, dies.
• 1976
  Nadia Comăneci becomes the first person in Olympic Games history to score a perfect 10 in gymnastics at the 1976 Summer Olympics.
• 1982
  Two hundred sixty-eight campesinos (“peasants” or “country people”) are slain in the Plan de Sánchez massacre in Ríos Montt’s Guatemala.
• 1984
  McDonald’s massacre in San Ysidro, California: In a fast-food restaurant, James Oliver Huberty opens fire, killing 21 people and injuring 19 others before being shot dead by police.
• 1984
  The dismembered body of Swedish prostitute Catrine da Costa is found in Stockholm, the findings later led to a trial that ended in a mistrial for two accused doctors.
• 1986
  A tornado is broadcast live on KARE television in Minnesota when the station’s helicopter pilot makes a chance encounter.