Editing March 18 (section)

==Events==
===Pre-1600===
*[[AD 37|37]] &ndash; Roman Senate annuls [[Tiberius]]' will and proclaims [[Caligula|Gaius Julius Caesar Augustus Germanicus]] ''(aka [[Caligula]] = Little Boots)'' emperor.<ref name="tacitus-annals-5-10">Tacitus, ''Annals'' [[s:The Annals (Tacitus)/Book 5#10|V.10]].</ref> 
*[[1068]] &ndash; An [[1068 Near East earthquake|earthquake]] in the [[Levant]] and the [[Arabian Peninsula]] leaves up to 20,000 dead.
*[[1229]] &ndash; [[Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor]], declares himself [[King of Jerusalem]] in the [[Sixth Crusade]].
*[[1241]] &ndash; [[First Mongol invasion of Poland]]: [[Mongol Empire|Mongols]] overwhelm [[History of Poland during the Piast dynasty|Polish]] armies in [[Kraków]] in the [[Battle of Chmielnik]] and plunder the city.
*[[1314]] &ndash; [[Jacques de Molay]], the 23rd and final Grand Master of the [[Knights Templar]], is burned at the stake.
*[[1438]] &ndash; [[Albert II of Habsburg]] becomes [[King of the Romans]].
*[[1571]] &ndash; [[Valletta]] is made the capital city of [[Malta]].<ref>{{cite web |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=7ZQNAAAAQAAJ&q=valletta+capital+malta+18+march&pg=PA79 |title=Report on the Phoœnician and Roman antiquities in ... Malta |first=Antonio Annetto |last=Caruana |author-link=Antonio Annetto Caruana |date=February 2, 1882 |page=79 |via=Google Books |access-date=February 3, 2021 |archive-date=September 18, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210918091906/https://books.google.com/books?id=7ZQNAAAAQAAJ&q=valletta+capital+malta+18+march&pg=PA79 |url-status=live }}</ref>

===1601–1900===
*[[1608]] &ndash; [[Susenyos I|Susenyos]] is formally crowned Emperor of [[Ethiopia]].
*[[1644]] &ndash; The [[Anglo-Powhatan Wars|Third Anglo-Powhatan War]] begins in the [[Colony of Virginia]].
*[[1673]] &ndash; English lord [[John Berkeley, 1st Baron Berkeley of Stratton|John Berkeley]] sold his half of [[New Jersey]] to the [[Quakers]]<ref>Streissguth, Thomas (2002). (New Jersey. San Diego: Lucent Books, Inc.) {{ISBN|1-56006-872-8}}. pp. 24–28</ref>
*[[1741]] &ndash; New York governor [[George Clarke (governor)|George Clarke]]'s complex at [[Fort Amsterdam|Fort George]] is burned in an arson attack, starting the [[New York Conspiracy of 1741]].
*[[1766]] &ndash; [[American Revolution]]: The [[British Parliament]] repeals the [[Stamp Act 1765|Stamp Act]].
*[[1793]] &ndash; The first modern [[republic]] in Germany, the [[Republic of Mainz]], is declared by [[Andreas Joseph Hofmann]].
*[[1793]] &ndash; [[Low Countries theatre of the War of the First Coalition|Flanders Campaign]] of the [[French Revolution]], [[Battle of Neerwinden (1793)|Battle of Neerwinden]].
*[[1834]] &ndash; [[Tolpuddle Martyrs|Six farm labourers]] from [[Tolpuddle]], [[Dorset]], England are sentenced to be transported to Australia for forming a [[trade union]].
*[[1848]] &ndash; The premiere of [[William Henry Fry|Fry]]'s ''Leonora'' in [[Philadelphia]] is the first known performance of a [[grand opera]] by an American composer.<ref name="Ewen1982">{{cite book|author=David Ewen|title=American Composers: A Biographical Dictionary|url=https://archive.org/details/americancomposer00davi|url-access=registration|year=1982|publisher=G.P. Putnam's Sons|isbn=978-0-399-12626-0}}</ref>
*  1848   &ndash; [[Revolutions of 1848]]: A [[Five Days of Milan|rebellion]] arose in [[Milan]] which in five days of street fighting drove [[Marshal Radetzky]] and his Austrian soldiers from the city.<ref name=GOO>{{cite book |title=The unification of Italy |first=John |last=Gooch |year=1986 |place=London}}</ref> 
*[[1865]] &ndash; [[American Civil War]]: The [[Congress of the Confederate States]] adjourns for the last time.
*[[1871]] &ndash; Declaration of the [[Paris Commune]]; President of the French Republic, [[Adolphe Thiers]], orders the evacuation of Paris.
*[[1874]] &ndash; The [[Hawaiian Kingdom]] signs a treaty with the United States granting exclusive [[trade]] rights.
*[[1899]] &ndash; [[Phoebe (moon)|Phoebe]], a [[Moons of Saturn|satellite of Saturn]], becomes the first to be discovered with photographs, taken in August 1898, by [[William Henry Pickering]].<ref>[https://solarsystem.nasa.gov/moons/saturn-moons/phoebe/in-depth/ Phoebe (moon)] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210319220941/https://solarsystem.nasa.gov/moons/saturn-moons/phoebe/in-depth/|date=2021-03-19}}[https://solarviews.com/eng/phoebe.htm] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210211065157/https://solarviews.com/eng/phoebe.htm|date=2021-02-11}}[https://sos.noaa.gov/datasets/phoebe-saturns-moon/] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210427153131/https://sos.noaa.gov/datasets/phoebe-saturns-moon/|date=2021-04-27}}[http://astro.if.ufrgs.br/solar/phoebe.htm] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200804235226/http://astro.if.ufrgs.br/solar/phoebe.htm|date=2020-08-04}}</ref>

===1901–present===
*[[1901]] &ndash; The [[Kumasi Mutiny of 1901]] begins.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2020-05-16 |title=Remembering the Kumasi Mutiny of 1901 |url=https://ghanaianmuseum.com/remembering-the-kumasi-mutiny-of-1901/ |access-date=2023-06-17 |website=Ghanaian Museum |language=en-US}}</ref>
*[[1902]] &ndash; [[Macario Sakay]] issues Presidential Order No. 1 of his [[Tagalog Republic]].<ref>{{cite book |last=Kabigting Abad |first=Antonio |title=General Macario L. Sakay: Was He a Bandit or a Patriot? |year=1955 |publisher=J. B. Feliciano and Sons Printers-Publishers}}</ref>
*[[1913]] &ndash; King [[George I of Greece]] is assassinated in the recently liberated city of [[Thessaloniki]].
*[[1915]] &ndash; [[World War I]]: During the [[Battle of Gallipoli]], three [[battleship]]s are sunk during a failed British and French [[Naval operations in the Dardanelles Campaign|naval attack on the Dardanelles]].
*[[1921]] &ndash; The second [[Peace of Riga]] is signed between Poland and the [[Soviet Union]].
*  1921   &ndash; The [[Kronstadt rebellion]] is suppressed by the [[Red Army]].<ref>{{cite book |last=Avrich |first=Paul |author-link=Paul Avrich |title=Kronstadt, 1921 |title-link=Kronstadt, 1921 |page=211 |date=1970 |publisher=[[Princeton University Press]] |isbn=0-691-08721-0}}</ref>
*  1921   &ndash; [[Mongolian Revolution of 1921]]: The Mongolian People's Army defeated local Chinese forces at [[Altanbulag, Selenge]] (then known as Maimachen). This battle was seen as the birthday of the People's Army and completed the expulsion of Chinese militants in Mongolia.<ref>{{cite book |date= 1973 |title=History of the Mongolian People's Republic |url=https://archive.org/details/HistoryOfTheMPR/page/n1/mode/2up |publisher=Nauka |pages= 293–294|isbn=}}</ref>
*[[1922]] &ndash; In India, [[Mohandas Gandhi]] is sentenced to six years in [[prison]] for [[civil disobedience]], of which he serves only two.
*[[1925]] &ndash; The [[1925 Tri-State tornado]] hits the Midwestern states of [[Missouri]], [[Illinois]], and [[Indiana]], killing 695 people.
*[[1937]] &ndash; The [[New London School explosion]] in [[New London, Texas]], kills 300 people, mostly children.
*  1937   &ndash; [[Spanish Civil War]]: Spanish Republican forces defeat the [[Italy|Italians]] at the [[Battle of Guadalajara]].
*[[1938]] &ndash; Mexico creates [[Pemex]] by [[Mexican oil expropriation|expropriating]] all foreign-owned oil reserves and facilities.
*[[1940]] &ndash; [[World War II]]: [[Adolf Hitler]] and [[Benito Mussolini]] meet at the [[Brenner Pass]] in the [[Alps]] and agree to form an alliance against France and the United Kingdom.
*[[1942]] &ndash; The [[War Relocation Authority]] is established in the United States to take Japanese Americans into custody.
*[[1944]] &ndash; [[Mount Vesuvius]] in Italy erupts, killing 26 people, causing thousands to flee their homes, and destroying dozens of Allied bombers.
*[[1945]] &ndash; 40th Infantry Division, spearheaded by the 185th US Infantry Regiment, landed unopposed in [[Tigbauan]] forcing the Japanese forces to surrender and General [[Macario Peralta]] and Gen. Gen. Eichelberger to declare the [[Panay Liberation Day|Liberation of Panay, Romblon and Guimaras]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=Proclamation No. 430, s. 1989 - DECLARING THE EIGHTEENTH DAY OF MARCH OF EVERY YEAR AS VICTORY DAY IN THE ISLANDS OF PANAY AND ROMBLON, INCLUDING THE CITIES OF ILOILO AND ROXAS |url=https://www.officialgazette.gov.ph/1989/07/21/proclamation-no-430-s-1989/ |access-date=March 18, 2024 |website=Official Gazette of the Republic of the Philippines}}</ref>
*[[1948]] &ndash; Soviet consultants leave Yugoslavia in the first sign of the [[Tito–Stalin split]].
*[[1953]] &ndash; An [[1953 Yenice–Gönen earthquake|earthquake]] hits western [[Turkey]], killing at least 1,070 people.
*[[1959]] &ndash; The [[Hawaii Admission Act]] is signed into law.
*[[1962]] &ndash; The [[Évian Accords]] end the [[Algerian War of Independence]], which had begun in 1954.
*[[1965]] &ndash; [[Cosmonaut]] [[Alexei Leonov]], leaving his spacecraft [[Voskhod 2]] for 12 minutes, becomes the first person to [[extravehicular activity|walk in space]].
*[[1966]] &ndash; [[United Arab Airlines Flight 749]] crashes on approach to [[Cairo International Airport]] in [[Cairo]], Egypt, killing 30 people.<ref>{{Cite web|last=Ranter|first=Harro|title=ASN Aircraft accident Antonov An-24V SU-AOA Cairo International Airport (CAI)|url=https://aviation-safety.net/database/record.php?id=19660318-0|access-date=2022-02-15|website=aviation-safety.net|publisher=[[Aviation Safety Network]]}}</ref>
*[[1967]] &ndash; The [[supertanker]] {{SS|Torrey Canyon||2}} runs aground off the Cornish coast.
*[[1968]] &ndash; [[Gold standard]]: The [[United States Congress|U.S. Congress]] repeals the requirement for a gold reserve to back [[United States dollar|US currency]].
*[[1969]] &ndash; The United States begins [[Operation Menu|secretly bombing]] the [[Sihanouk Trail]] in [[Cambodia]], used by [[People's Army of Vietnam|communist forces]] to infiltrate [[South Vietnam]].
*[[1970]] &ndash; [[Lon Nol]] [[1970 Cambodian coup d'état|ousts]] Prince [[Norodom Sihanouk]] of [[Cambodia]].
*[[1971]] &ndash; [[Peru]]: A [[landslide]] crashes into [[Yanawayin Lake]], killing 200 people at the mining camp of Chungar.
*[[1974]] &ndash; [[Güzel İstanbul]], a nude sculpture by [[Gürdal Duyar]] in Istanbul is torn down in the middle of the night.{{sfn|Antmen|2009|p=372}}
*[[1980]] &ndash; A [[Vostok-2M]] rocket at [[Plesetsk Cosmodrome Site 43]] [[1980 Plesetsk launch pad disaster|explodes during a fueling operation]], killing 48 people.
*[[1990]] &ndash; Germans in the [[German Democratic Republic]] vote in the [[1990 East German general election|first democratic elections]] in the former communist dictatorship.
*  1990   &ndash; In the largest [[art theft]] in US history, 12 paintings, collectively worth around $500&nbsp;million, [[Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum theft|are stolen]] from the [[Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum]] in [[Boston]].<ref>{{cite news |date=May 2009 |first=Milton |last=Esterow |title=Inside the Gardner Case |url=http://www.artnews.com/2009/05/01/inside-the-gardner-case/ |work=[[ARTnews]] |access-date=2018-03-16 |archive-date=2014-12-25 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141225044341/http://www.artnews.com/2009/05/01/inside-the-gardner-case/ |url-status=live }}</ref>
*[[1994]] &ndash; [[Bosnia and Herzegovina|Bosnia]]'s [[Bosniaks]] and [[Croats]] sign the [[Washington Agreement]], ending war between the [[Croatian Republic of Herzeg-Bosnia]] and the [[Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina]], and establishing the [[Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina]].
*[[1996]] &ndash; A [[Ozone Disco fire|nightclub fire]] in [[Quezon City]], Philippines kills 162 people.
*[[1997]] &ndash; The tail of a Russian [[Antonov An-24]] charter plane [[Stavropolskaya Aktsionernaya Avia Flight 1023|breaks off]] while en route to Turkey, causing the plane to crash and killing all 50 people on board.
*[[2014]] &ndash; The parliaments of Russia and [[Crimea]] sign an [[Annexation of Crimea by the Russian Federation|accession treaty]].
*[[2015]] &ndash; The [[Bardo National Museum (Tunis)|Bardo National Museum]] in [[Tunisia]] is [[Bardo National Museum attack|attacked]] by gunmen. Twenty-four people, almost all tourists, are killed, and at least 50 other people are wounded.
*[[2025]] &ndash; Israel [[March 2025 Israeli attacks on the Gaza Strip|launches]] widespread aerial bombardments and attacks on the [[Gaza Strip]], killing at least 591 people, including children. <ref>{{cite web|title= At least 404 killed as Israel unleashes deadly wave of strikes on Gaza|url= https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/3/18/israel-launches-gaza-assault-killing-hundreds-and-shattering-ceasefire|website=Al Jazeera|date=18 March 2025}}</ref>