Portal:War/Selected anniversaries/October 18

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[edit] October 18

• 1016 - The Danes defeat the Saxons in the Battle of Ashingdon.
• 1561 - Fourth Battle of Kawanakajima - Takeda Shingen defeats Uesugi Kenshin in the climax of their ongoing conflicts.
• 1748 - Signing of the Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle ends the War of the Austrian Succession.
• 1860 - The Second Opium War finally ends at the Convention of Peking with the ratification of the Treaty of Tientsin, an unequal treaty.
• 1945 - The USSR's nuclear program receives plans for the USA's plutonium bomb from Klaus Fuchs at the Los Alamos National Laboratory