Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/January 18
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This is a list of selected January 18 anniversaries that appears on the "On this day" section of the Main Page. To suggest a new item, in most cases you can be bold and edit this page. Please read the selected anniversaries guidelines before making your edit. However, if your addition may be controversial, or on a day that is or soon will be on the Main Page, please post your suggestion on the talk page instead.
To report an error when this appears on the Main Page, see Main Page errors.January 18: The Week of Prayer for Christian Unity begins
- 1535 – Conquistador Francisco Pizarro founded Ciudad de los Reyes, present-day Lima, Peru, as the capital of the lands he conquered for the Spanish Crown.
- 1778 – English explorer James Cook became the first known European to reach the Sandwich Islands, now known as the Hawaiian Islands.
- 1871 – Unification of Germany: A number of independent German states unified into the German Empire, with King Wilhelm I of Prussia (pictured) being proclaimed as its first Emperor.
- 1977 – The mysterious Legionnaires' disease was found to be caused by a novel bacterium now known as Legionella.
- 2003 – The 2003 Canberra bushfires: Bushfires burning out of control began blazing through residential areas of Canberra, Australia, eventually killing four people, and damaging or destroying more than 500 homes.
More events: January 17 – January 18 – January 19
