On June 18
On June 18, the Human Saga records one pivotal event: Battle of Waterloo (1815).
On this day
On 18 June 1815, near the village of Waterloo in present-day Belgium, Napoleon's bid to reclaim power during the Hundred Days came to a decisive end.
Also this week in history (Jun 15 – Jun 21)
On 20 June 451 CE, a coalition of the Western Roman Empire and the Visigoths, jointly led by the Roman general Flavius Aetius and the Visigothic king Theodoric I, confronted the Huns and their subject peoples under Attila on the…
In 1215, rebellious English barons confronted the unpopular King John over heavy taxation, arbitrary justice and the abuses of royal power that had followed his military failures in France.
On 16 June 2009 the leaders of Brazil, Russia, India and China met in Yekaterinburg, Russia, for the first formal BRIC summit, transforming an investment-bank acronym coined in 2001 into a working diplomatic grouping.