What is June 18?
{{calendar}} {{day}} ==Events== === Up to 1900 === * [[618]] &ndash; [[Tang Dynasty]] rule begins in [[China]], with the [[accession]] of [[Emperor Gaozu of Tang]] (Li Yuan). * [[1053]] &ndash; [[Battle of Civitate]]: 3,000 [[horse]]men of Norman [[Count Humphrey of Hauteville]] heavily defeat the troops of [[Pope Leo IX]]. * [[1264]] &ndash; The [[Parliament]] of [[Ireland]] meets at Castledermot in [[County Kildare]], as the first known meeting of an Irish [[legislature]]. * [[1429]] &ndash; French forces under the leadership of [[Joan of Arc]] defeat the English [[army]] under [[John Fastolf]] at the [[Battle of Patay]], helping to turn the tide in the [[Hundred Years' War]]. * [[1633]] &ndash; [[Charles I of England|Charles I]] is crowned [[King]] of [[Scotland|Scots]] at [[Saint Giles Cathedral]] in [[Edinburgh]]. * [[1757]] &ndash; [[Battle of Polin]]: Between the [[Prussia]]ns under [[Frederick the Great]] and the [[Austria]]ns in the [[Seven Years' War]]. * [[1767]] &ndash; English [[captain]] [[Samuel Wallis]] sights [[Tahiti]], possibly being the first [[Europe]]an to sight the island in present–day [[French Polynesia]]. * [[1778]] &ndash; [[American Revolutionary War]]: British troops abandon [[Philadelphia]]. * [[1812]] &ndash; The [[United States]] declares [[war]] on the [[United Kingdom]], starting the [[War of 1812]]. * [[1815]] &ndash; [[Battle of Waterloo]]: British, Russian and Prussian forces defeat a French army led by [[Napoleon Bonaparte]]. * [[1830]] &ndash; The French colonisation of [[Algeria]] begins. * [[1858]] &ndash; [[Charles Darwin]] receives a paper from [[Alfred Russel Wallace]] with almost–identical conclusions about [[Evolution]]. * [[1859]] &ndash; First successful climb of the [[Aletschhorn]] [[mountain]] in the [[Switzerland|Swiss]] [[Alps]]. * [[1873]] &ndash; [[Susan B. Anthony]] is fined for her attempt to vote in the [[1872]] [[US President]]ial Election. * [[1897]] &ndash; [[Kyoto University]] is founded. * [[1900]] &ndash; [[Empress Dowager Longyu]] of [[China]] order