On January 18
No pivotal events are recorded on exactly January 18 in the Human Saga — here is the surrounding week in history.
This week in history (Jan 15 – Jan 21)
In January 27 BCE, Octavian formally 'restored the Republic' to the Senate and people of Rome, only to receive back overarching powers in a carefully staged settlement.
On 15 January 2001 Jimmy Wales and Larry Sanger launched Wikipedia, a free online encyclopedia that anyone could edit.
Maya inscriptions record that on a day corresponding to 16 January 378 CE, a figure named Siyaj K'ak' ('Fire is Born') arrived at Tikal, apparently as the emissary or general of a powerful lord called Spearthrower Owl, widely identified…
On 16 January 929, the Umayyad emir Abd al-Rahman III of Córdoba assumed the title of caliph and Commander of the Faithful, taking the regnal name al-Nasir li-din Allah.
The Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank, first proposed by Xi Jinping in 2013, formally opened for business on 16 January 2016 after its founding agreement entered into force in late 2015.