On this day in history: 18th January: 336 - St Mark elected Catholic Pope 474 - Leo II briefly becomes Byzantine emperor. 532 - Nika uprising at Constantinople fails, 30-40,000 die 1126 - Emperor Huizong abdicates the Chinese throne in favour of his son Emperor Qinzong. 1307 - German king Albrecht I makes his son Rudolf king of Bohemia 1478 - Grand Duke Ivan II of Moscow occupies Novgorod 1520 - Christian II of Denmark & Norway defeats Swedes at Lake Asunde 1535 - Francisco Pizarro founds the city of Lima, Peru 1591 - King Naresuan of Siam kills Crown Prince Minchit Sra of Burma in single combat, for which this date is now observed marked as Royal Thai Armed Forces day. 1650 - French Prince Louis II of Condé captured 1671 - Pirate Henry Morgan defeats Spanish defenders, captures Panama 1691 - English king Willem III travels to The Hague 1701 - Frederick I and Sophie Charlotte van Hanover crowned king/queen of Prussia 1778 - Capt James Cook stumbles over Sandwich Islands (Hawaiian Islands) 1788 - The first elements of the First Fleet carrying 736 convicts from England to Australia arrives at Botany Bay to set up a penal colony 1795 - French admitted to Amsterdam without resistance 1795 - governor/viceroy Willem V flees Scheveningen to England 1817 - José de San Martín leads a revolutionary army over the Andes to attack Spanish royalists in Chile 1850 - British blockade Piraeus, Greece to enforce mercantile claims 1854 - Filibuster William Walker proclaims Republic of Sonora in NW Mexico 1871 - 2nd German Empire proclaimed by Kaiser Wilhelm I & Bismarck 1884 - General Charles Gordon departs London for Khartoum 1884 - Dr. William Price attempts to cremate the body of his infant son, Iesu Grist (Welsh for Jesus Christ) Price, setting a legal precedent for cremation in the United Kingdom. 1886 - Modern field hockey is born with the formation of The Hockey Association in England. 1896 - British troops occupy Kumasi, West Africa 1901 - Pope Leo XIII publishes encyclical Graves De Communi Re 1905 - French government of Combes falls 1913 - Turkish-Greek sea battle near Troy 1915 - Train crashes at Colima-Guadalajara Mexico, about 600 die 1915 - Japan issues the Twenty-One Demands to the Republic of China in a bid to increase its power in East Asia. 1919 - WW I Peace Congress opens in Versailles, France 1919 - Bentley Motors Limited is founded 1922 - Irish author Liam OFlaherty & others occupy Rotunda in Dublin 1923 - 1st radio telegraph message from Netherlands to Dutch East Indies 1929 - Stalin proposes to ban Trotsky from the Politburo 1942 - Nazis arrest Frans Goedhart & Wiardi Beckman 1943 - Soviets announce they broke long Nazi siege of Leningrad 1944 - 1st Chinese naturalized US citizen since repeal of exclusion acts 1948 - 1st courses begin at University of Ibadan, Nigeria 1951 - 1st use of lie detector in Netherlands 1951 - Hermann Flake sentenced to death due to hate campaign against GDR 1954 - Fanfani forms Italian government 1955 - Battle of Yijiangshan Islands between Chinese National Revolutionary Army and the Peoples Liberation Army
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