WHAT HAPPENED ON 18. JANUARY
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General Magnentius deposes Roman Emperor Constans and proclaims himself Emperor. (18. January 350)

Seven-year-old Leo II succeeds his maternal grandfather Leo I as Byzantine emperor. He died ten months later. (18. January 474)

Nika riots in Constantinople fail. (18. January 532)

Emperor Huizong abdicates the Chinese throne in favour of his son Emperor Qinzong. (18. January 1126)

King Henry VII of England marries Elizabeth of York, daughter of Edward IV. (18. January 1486)

Spanish conquistador Francisco Pizarro founds Lima, the capital of Peru. (18. January 1535)

Pope Pius IV reopens the Council of Trent for its third and final session. (18. January 1562)

King Naresuan of Siam kills Crown Prince Minchit Sra of Burma in single combat, for which this date is now observed as Royal Thai Armed Forces day. (18. January 1591)

Henry Morgan captures Panama. (18. January 1670)

Frederick I crowns himself King of Prussia in Königsberg. (18. January 1701)

James Cook is the first known European to discover the Hawaiian Islands, which he names the "Sandwich Islands". (18. January 1778)

The first elements of the First Fleet carrying 736 convicts from England to Australia arrive at Botany Bay. (18. January 1788)

Wesley College, Melbourne is established. (18. January 1866)

Wilhelm I of Germany is proclaimed the first German Emperor in the Hall of Mirrors of the Palace of Versailles (France) towards the end of the Franco-Prussian War. The empire is known as the Second Reich to Germans. (18. January 1871)

Dr. William Price attempts to cremate the body of his infant son, Jesus Christ Price, setting a legal precedent for cremation in the United Kingdom. (18. January 1884)

Modern hockey is born with the formation of The Hockey Association in England. (18. January 1886)

An X-ray generating machine is exhibited for the first time by H.L. Smith. (18. January 1896)

President Theodore Roosevelt sends a radio message to King Edward VII: the first transatlantic radio transmission originating in the United States.[citation needed ] (18. January 1903)

Eugene B. Ely lands on the deck of the USS Pennsylvania stationed in San Francisco Bay, the first time an aircraft landed on a ship. (18. January 1911)

First Balkan War: A Greek flotilla defeats the Ottoman Navy in the Naval Battle of Lemnos, securing the islands of the Northern Aegean Sea for Greece. (18. January 1913)