18
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This article is about the year 18. For the number 18, see 18 (number).
| Millennium: | 1st millennium |
|---|---|
| Centuries: | 1st century BC – 1st century – 2nd century |
| Decades: | 10s BC 0s BC 0s – 10s – 20s 30s 40s |
| Years: | 15 16 17 – 18 – 19 20 21 |
| 18 by topic | |
| Politics | |
| State leaders – Sovereign states | |
| Birth and death categories | |
| Births – Deaths | |
| Establishment and disestablishment categories | |
| Establishments – Disestablishments | |
| Gregorian calendar | 18 XVIII |
| Ab urbe condita | 770 |
| Armenian calendar | N/A |
| Bahá'í calendar | -1826 – -1825 |
| Bengali calendar | -575 |
| Berber calendar | 968 |
| Buddhist calendar | 562 |
| Burmese calendar | -620 |
| Byzantine calendar | 5526 – 5527 |
| Chinese calendar | 丁丑年十二月廿五日 (2654/2714-12-25) — to —
戊寅年正月初五日(2655/2715-1-5) |
| Coptic calendar | -266 – -265 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 10 – 11 |
| Hebrew calendar | 3778 – 3779 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Bikram Samwat | 74 – 75 |
| - Shaka Samvat | N/A |
| - Kali Yuga | 3119 – 3120 |
| Holocene calendar | 10018 |
| Iranian calendar | 604 BP – 603 BP |
| Islamic calendar | 623 BH – 622 BH |
| Japanese calendar | |
| Korean calendar | 2351 |
| Thai solar calendar | 561 |
Year 18 (XVIII) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.
[edit] Events
[edit] By place
[edit] Roman Empire
- Emperor Tiberius and Germanicus are Roman Consuls.
- A vexillatio (sub-unit) of Legio III Augusta is destroyed by an ambush in Africa.
- The German chieftain Arminius destroys the kingdom of the Marcomanni.
[edit] Syria
- Winter—Germanicus Caesar arrived in Syria, as new commander in chief for the Roman East.
- Gnaeus Calpurnius Piso, governor of Syria, ignored the order of Germanicus to send Syrian-based legions, including Legio VI Ferrata and Legio X Fretensis, to Armenia to back him in his planned coronation of Artaxias III.
[edit] Parthia
- Germanicus conclude a peace treaty with Artabanus II of Parthia, in which he is recognized as king and friend of Rome.
[edit] China
- After flooding of the Yellow River farmers are forced to rebel. Emperor Wang Mang reacted by sending a Chinese army (± 100,000 men) against the agrarian rebels. The rebel leaders, concerned that during battle it would become impossible to tell friend from foe, ordered that their men color their eyebrows red—and this is where the name Chimei (the "Red Eyebrows") came from.
[edit] India
- In India, the Indo-Parthians control Taxila.
[edit] Births
[edit] Deaths
- Ovid, Roman poet (or 17)
- Yang Xiong, Chinese philosopher, poet, and author (b. 53 BC)
