The August 18th is the 230e Jour of the Année (231e in the event of Leap year) of the Gregorian Calendrier.

Events

1 to 1900

  •    849: The former tutor of Charles the Bald person, Walafrid Strabon, abbot of Reichenau, come as an ambassador from Louis Germanic the near Charles, drowns while crossing the the Loire.

  • 1235 : Important fire with Lausanne
  • 1304: The Flemish militia are crushed by the army of Philippe IV Beautiful the with the Bataille of Mons-in-Pévèle.
  • 1388 : Truce of Leulinghem between the France and the England.
  • 1516 : The pope Leon X yields Parma and Plaisance to the France by the Traité of Bologna.
  • 1572 : The future Henri IV wife Marguerite de France.
  • 1789 : Revolution with Liege.
  • 1792 : Dissolution in France of the religious congregations, including teaching.
  • 1812 : Battle of Smolensk.
  • 1813 : Victoire of Davout to Lauenbourg.
  • 1870 : Battle of Saint-Privat.

XXe century

  • 1920: 19th amendment granting the right to vote with the women to the the United States.

  • 1944 : Release of the camp of Drancy
  • 1966: beginning of the Cultural revolution in China.
  • 1983 : In France, the material of the radio Carbon-14 is seized. The frequency is immediately réattribuée at another station, Merry Fréquence.
  • 1989 : Tadeusz Mazowiecki becomes in Poland Prime Minister for the first noncommunist government of Europe of the East.
  • 1990 : Baghdad announces the taken as hostages of the “nationals of aggressive nations” and decides to gather them in strategic zones, where they will be used like human shields against possible bombardments.
  • 1991 : Beginning of the putsch against Mikhaïl Gorbatchev.
  • 1993 : Swiss modification in of the ordinance of the July 4th 1984 regulating the documentary evidence of the origin of the goods as regards Foreign trade.

Births

Death

Celebrations

First names

  • Lætitia, name given in reference to Notre-Dame de Liesse;
  • Helene, in reference to holy Helene.

Catholic and orthodoxe saints of the day

  • Jean de Rila, (+ 946), higoumene in Bulgaria;
  • Helene, mother of the emperor Constantin {{Ier}};
  • Notre-Dame de Liesse.

See too

Beats-smg: Rogpjūtė 18 Be-X-old: 18 жніўня Fiu-vro: 18. põimukuu päiv Nds-nl: 18 augustus Simple: August 18 Zh-yue: 8 月 18 號

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