May 18

The May 18 is the 138th day of the Gregorian Calendar ( 139th in leap years), thus remain still 227 days of the year.

  • 2.1 Before the 19th century
  • 2.2 19th century
  • 2.3 20th century 2.3.1 1901-1950
  • 2.3.2 1951-2000
  • 3.1 Before the 19th century
  • 3.2 19th century
  • 3.3 20th century
  • 3.4 21st century

Events

Politics and World Affairs

Economy

Science and Technology

  • 44 BC: The comet C/-43 K1 ( Comet Caesar ) was discovered in China. In July of the same year it is visible in Rome and is regarded by the people as the deified manifestation of the soul of the murdered Gaius Julius Caesar and used by his adopted son Octavian, later Emperor Augustus, to theo political propaganda purposes.

Culture

Society

Religion

Nature and Environment

Disasters

Minor accidents are listed in the sub- items of disaster.

Sports

Entries of Athletics world records are located under the respective discipline under Athletics.

Born

Before the 19th century

19th century

20th century

1901-1950

1951-2000

Died

Before the 19th century

  • 0978: Frederick I, Duke of Upper Lorraine
  • 1102: Stephen II, Count of Blois, Count of Chartres, Crusaders
  • 1102: Stephen of Burgundy, Count of Burgundy, Mâcon and Vienne, Étiennette of Longwy -Metz, Crusaders
  • 1406: Balthasar of Thuringia, Margrave of Meissen, Landgrave of Thuringia
  • 1410: Ruprecht I, Holy Roman German King and Elector of the Palatinate
  • 1450: Sejong, King of the Korean Joseon Dynasty
  • 1551: Domenico Beccafumi, Italian painter and sculptor

19th century

20th century

21st Century

  • 2002: Wolfgang Schneiderhan, Austrian violinist
  • 2004: Arnold Orville Beckman, American chemist
  • 2004: Francesco Caroli, Italian Artist and Clown
  • 2004: Elvin Jones, American musician
  • 2004: Heinz Maria Oeftering, German Manager, President of the German Federal Railways and the Federal Court
  • 2007: Pierre -Gilles de Gennes, French physicist, Nobel laureate
  • 2008: Jonathan James, American hacker
  • 2008: Joseph Pevney, American film director and actor, film producer and screenwriter
  • 2009: Adolf Beck, German politician
  • 2009: Dolla, American rapper
  • 2009: Paul Parin, Ethno psychoanalyst and writer
  • 2010: Shusaku Arakawa, Japanese painter, printmaker and architect
  • 2010: Edoardo Sanguineti, Italian writer
  • 2012: Dietrich Fischer- Dieskau, German singer
  • 2013: Ernst Klee, German journalist and writer
  • 2013: Lothar Schmid, German publisher and chess player

Holidays and observances

  • Religious observances Christian Heinrich Zeller, German educator ( Protestant)
  • Erik IX. (Sweden), king and martyr ( Roman Catholic, Protestant: ELCA )
  • Name Days Claudia, Erich (not in Germany ), Felix

More entries contains the list of commemorative and Action days.

  • Day
  • Day in May
April May 2 May 3 May 4 May 5 May 6 May 7 May 8 May 9 May 10 May 11 May 12 May 13 May 14 May 15 May 16 May 17 May 19 May 20 May 21 May 22 May 23 May 24 May 25 May 26 May 27 May 28 May 29 May 30 May 31 1152 Louis VII of France Henry II of England Counts and dukes of Anjou 1190 Battle of Iconium (1190) 1291 Siege of Acre (1291) 1302 Flemish people Garrison 1337 Beatrice of Bourbon, Queen of Bohemia 1565 Piyale Pasha Great Siege of Malta 1595 History of Finland 1643 Regency Cardinal Mazarin December 4 1757 Bamar people 1792 Rzeczpospolita Polish–Russian War of 1792 1803 1804 First French Empire 1811 Las Piedras, Uruguay Gaucho 1812 Spencer Perceval John Bellingham 1822 July 21 1845 History of Spain Isabella II of Spain 1848 Frankfurt Parliament 1863 Ulysses S. Grant Vicksburg (Mississippi) July 4 1869 Republic of Ezo History of Japan 1879 Swiss Federal Constitution 1896 Melville Fuller Separate but equal 1899 Hague Conventions of 1899 and 1907 1904 Ion Perdicaris Mulai Ahmed er Raisuni History of Morocco 1912 Marxism Vladimir Lenin Pravda Newspaper Communist Party of the Soviet Union 1930 Richard Steidle Julius Raab 1933 Franklin D. Roosevelt Tennessee Valley Authority 1939 1941 German battleship Bismarck German cruiser Prinz Eugen Battle of the Atlantic Submarine warfare 1943 1944 1947 1948 Nanjing 1953 Deutsches Eck Theodor Heuss 1974 Smiling Buddha List of states with nuclear weapons 1977 1980 Gwangju 1990 Walter Romberg July 1 1991 1992 1993 2003 1830 Edwin Beard Budding 1885 Bank of Japan Banknote Lund Erik Wallenberg 1995 Arrest warrant 1967 Centaurus X-3 Centaurus 1969 Apollo 10 Thomas P. Stafford July 30 August 8 April 3 V150 (train) 1593 Thomas Kyd Christopher Marlowe 1724 1768 Johann Adam Hiller 1894 Moscow 1895 Oskar Marmorek Prater 1897 Vampire literature 1940 Volo di notte Luigi Dallapiccola Teatro della Pergola 1961 Pilote Asterix and the Goths 1961 Cannes Film Festival Viridiana Palme d'Or 1972 Die neuen Leiden des jungen W. 1976 Circus Roncalli History of England 1927 1066 Conrad of Pfullingen Henry IV, Holy Roman Emperor 1743 Pope Benedict XIV 1760 Jesuit Church, Mannheim Georg Dehio 1986 Dominum et Vivificantem Holy Spirit 1966 Moby Dick (Rhine) History of Russia 1980 eruption of Mount St. Helens David A. Johnston George Horine Palo Alto, California 1956 Fritz Luchsinger Ernst Reiss Lhotse 1971 Sherpa people 2005 1048 1452 1533 1616 1711 1728 1736 1746 1774 1777 1778 Andrew Ure 1781 David Hazzard 1782 1783 1809 William Wilson (engineer) 1810 Francesco Maria Piave 1819 1824 John B. Allen 1846 1850 1851 James Budd 1852 1856 1862 1865 1866 1868 Ludwig Landmann 1871 1872 Bertrand Russell 1876 1877 1882 1883 Walter Gropius 1884 Martin Elsaesser 1886 1887 Ernst Wiechert 1889 Gunnar Gunnarsson 1891 Rudolf Carnap 1893 Friedrich Sieburg Frank Capra 1898 Hans Kroll 1900 Wolfgang Heinz (actor) Robert Ochsenfeld 1906 Frederick Zimmermann 1907 Carl Mydans Clifford Curzon 1909 Fred Perry 1911 Big Joe Turner Hermann Langbein Perry Como Richard Brooks 1913 Charles Trenet Neelam Sanjiva Reddy 1914 Pierre Balmain Boris Christoff 1915 1917 Heinz Raack 1918 Massimo Girotti 1919 1920 1922 Adrian Hoven 1924 1925 Justus Dahinden 1926 Bob Benny Kurt Hirschhorn Egon Monk 1928 Pernell Roberts 1929 Roger Matton 1931 Don Martin (cartoonist) 1932 Dean Tavoularis Bernadette Chirac 1934 1935 1937 Jacques Santer 1938 Hark Bohm 1942 Jacques-Pierre Amette Helmut Haussmann Gennadi Sosonko Justus Frantz Albert Hammond 1946 Ray Richards (footballer) John Bruton 1949 Jim McNeely Mark Mothersbaugh Thomas Gottschalk 1952 George Strait Jeana Yeager 1954 Ekkehardt Belle 1955 Kjetil Bjerkestrand Chow Yun-Fat Tatjana Blacher 1957 Frank Plasberg 1958 1959 Lauren Flanigan 1960 Page Hamilton Yannick Noah 1962 John Chabot 1964 1965 Heinz-Harald Frentzen Bob Stephenson (actor) 1968 Sybille Gruner Helena Noguerra Ingo Pohlmann Nordin ben Salah 1973 Chantal Kreviazuk Carolyn Sampson 1975 Flozell Adams Jack Johnson (musician) John Higgins (snooker player) 1978 1979 1981 1982 1984 Johan A. Andersson 1985 Oliver Sin Kevin Anderson (tennis) 1987 Jaana Ehmcke Luisana Lopilato 1988 1989 Stephen, Count of Blois Rupert, King of Germany 1574 1587 Felix of Cantalice 1606 1634 1635 1667 Melchior Schildt 1675 Jacques Marquette 1680 1708 Arvid Axel Mardefelt 1720 1721 1733 1793 1795 Robert Rogers (soldier) 1799 1826 1832 1837 Hans Christian Lyngbye 1843 1849 Samuel Amsler 1853 1854 Henry Lemoine 1861 Friedrich August von Ammon Eduard Weber 1892 John Alexander Anderson Daniel Pollen John F. Potter 1905 George Meredith 1910 Gustav Mahler Eduard Strasburger William Bridges (general) Wendelin Förster 1916 Louis Leitz 1921 Franklin Knight Lane Charles Louis Alphonse Laveran Otto Merz James Truslow Adams Mary McLeod Bethune Enrique Guaita Paul Althaus Ludwig Berger (director) Prentice Cooper Sidney Franklin (director) Leroy Anderson Stewart Adams Ian Curtis Harry Randall Truman 1983 Frank Aiken Nasuh Akar Harald Andersson Hermann Schridde Jill Ireland Gerd Achgelis Marshall Thompson Heinrich Albertz Sabine Sinjen 1996 1997 Bridgette Andersen 1999 Betty Robinson Wolfgang Schneiderhan (violinist) Pierre-Gilles de Gennes Dolla (rapper) Evangelical Lutheran Church in America Felix (name)
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