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On March 18, 37: Roman Senate annuls Tiberius' will and proclaims Gaius Julius Caesar Augustus Germanicus (aka Caligula = Little Boots) emperor.

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Roman Senate annuls Tiberius' will and proclaims Gaius Julius Caesar Augustus Germanicus (aka Caligula = Little Boots) emperor.

AD 37 (XXXVII) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Proculus and Pontius. The denomination AD 37 for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calendar era became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years.

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Born on March 18

Brenden Rice 2002– American football player (born 2002)
Diogo Dalot 1999– Portuguese footballer (born 1999)
Emmanuel Clase 1998– Dominican baseball player (born 1998)
Ciara Bravo 1997– American actress (born 1997)
Rieko Ioane 1997– New Zealander rugby union player
Jordan Whitehead 1997– American football player (born 1997)
Ivica Zubac 1997– Croatian basketball player (born 1997)
Skal Labissière 1996– Haitian basketball player (born 1996)
Irina Bara 1995– Romanian tennis player (born 1995)
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Julia Goldani Telles 1995– American actress and ballet dancer
Kris Dunn 1994– American basketball player (born 1994)
Ronnie Stanley 1994– American football player (born 1994)
Solo Sikoa 1993– American professional wrestler (born 1993)
Anthony Barr 1992– American football player (born 1992)
Trey Mancini 1992– American baseball player (born 1992)
Ryan Truex 1992– American racing driver (born 1992)
Takuya Terada 1992– Japanese singer and actor
Travis Frederick 1991– American football player (born 1991)

People

Died on March 18

Kanzi Bonobo research subject (1980–2025)
Jessie Hoffman Jr. American convicted rapist-killer executed in Louisiana (1978–2025)
Thomas P. Stafford American astronaut and lunar explorer (1930–2024)
Alfred Worden American astronaut and lunar explorer (1932–2020)
Chuck Berry American musician (1926–2017)
Barry Hines British writer (1939–2016)
Jan Němec Czech filmmaker (1936–2016)
Tray Walker American football player (1992–2016)
Guido Westerwelle German politician (1961–2016)
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Zhao Dayu Footballer (1961–2015)
Thomas Hopko American Eastern Orthodox theologian and priest (1939–2015)
Grace Ogot Kenyan author (1930–2015)
Catherine Obianuju Acholonu Nigerian writer (1951–2014)
Kaiser Kalambo Zambian footballer and coach (1953-2014)
Lucius Shepard American novelist (1943–2014)
Muhammad Mahmood Alam Pakistani fighter pilot (1935–2013)
Henry Bromell American novelist
Clay Ford American politician (1938–2013)

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Every March 18 on record

  1. 37 Roman Senate annuls Tiberius' will and proclaims Gaius Julius Caesar Augustus Germanicus (aka Caligula = Little Boots) emperor.

    Calendar year

    AD 37 (XXXVII) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Proculus and Pontius. The denomination AD 37 for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calendar era became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years.

  2. 417 Pope Zosimus is elected following the death of Pope Innocent I.

    Head of the Catholic Church from 417 to 418

    Pope Zosimus was the bishop of Rome from 18 March 417 to his death on 26 December 418. Zosimus took a decided part in the protracted dispute in Gaul as to the jurisdiction of the See of Arles over that of Vienne, giving energetic decisions in favour of the former, but without settling the controversy. His fractious temper coloured all the controversies in which he took part, in Gaul, Africa and Italy, including Rome, where at his death the clergy were very much divided.

  3. 1068 An earthquake in the Levant and the Arabian Peninsula leaves up to 20,000 dead.

    Series of earthquakes in the Arabian Peninsula and Palestine

    Two major earthquakes occurred in the Near East on 18 March and 29 May, AD 1068. The two earthquakes are often amalgamated by contemporary sources. The first earthquake had its epicentre somewhere in the northwestern part of the Arabian Peninsula around Tabuk, while the second was most damaging in the city of Ramla in Palestine, some 500 km to the northwest.

  4. 1229 Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor, declares himself King of Jerusalem in the Sixth Crusade.

    Holy Roman Emperor from 1220 to 1250

    Frederick II was King of Sicily from 1198, King of Germany from 1212, King of Italy and Holy Roman Emperor from 1220, and King of Jerusalem from 1225 to 1228. He was the son of Emperor Henry VI, of the Hohenstaufen dynasty, and Queen Constance I of Sicily, of the Hauteville dynasty.

  5. 1241 First Mongol invasion of Poland: Mongols overwhelm Polish armies in Kraków in the Battle of Chmielnik and plunder the city.

    Military campaign, 1240 to 1241

    The Mongol invasion of Poland from late 1240 to 1241 culminated in the Battle of Legnica, where the Mongols defeated an alliance which included forces from fragmented Poland and their allies, led by Henry II the Pious, the Duke of Silesia and High Duke of Poland. The first invasion's intention was to secure the flank of the main Mongolian army attacking the Kingdom of Hungary. The Mongols neutralized any potential help to King Béla IV being provided by the Poles or any military orders.

  6. 1314 Jacques de Molay, the 23rd and final Grand Master of the Knights Templar, is burned at the stake.
  7. 1438 Albert II of Habsburg becomes King of the Romans.
  8. 1571 Valletta is made the capital city of Malta.
  9. 1608 Susenyos is formally crowned Emperor of Ethiopia.
  10. 1644 The Third Anglo-Powhatan War begins in the Colony of Virginia.
  11. 1673 English lord John Berkeley sells his half of New Jersey to the Quakers.
  12. 1741 New York governor George Clarke's complex at Fort George is burned in an arson attack, starting the New York Conspiracy of 1741.
  13. 1766 American Revolution: The British Parliament repeals the Stamp Act.
  14. 1793 The first modern republic in Germany, the Republic of Mainz, is declared by Andreas Joseph Hofmann.
  15. 1793 Flanders Campaign of the French Revolution, Battle of Neerwinden.
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  1. 1834 Six farm labourers from Tolpuddle, Dorset, England are sentenced to be transported to Australia for forming a trade union.
  2. 1848 The premiere of William Henry Fry's Leonora in Philadelphia is the first known performance of a grand opera by an American composer.
  3. 1848 Revolutions of 1848: A rebellion arises in Milan which in five days of street fighting drove Marshal Radetzky and his Austrian soldiers from the city.
  4. 1865 American Civil War: The Congress of the Confederate States adjourns for the last time.
  5. 1871 Declaration of the Paris Commune; President of the French Republic, Adolphe Thiers, orders the evacuation of Paris.
  6. 1899 Phoebe, a satellite of Saturn, becomes the first to be discovered with photographs, taken in August 1898, by William Henry Pickering.
  7. 1901 The Kumasi Mutiny of 1901 begins.
  8. 1902 Macario Sakay issues Presidential Order No. 1 of his Tagalog Republic.
  9. 1913 King George I of Greece is assassinated in the recently liberated city of Thessaloniki.
  10. 1915 World War I: During the Battle of Gallipoli, three battleships are sunk during a failed British and French naval attack on the Dardanelles.
  11. 1921 The second Peace of Riga is signed between Poland and the Soviet Union.
  12. 1921 The Kronstadt rebellion is suppressed by the Red Army.
  13. 1921 Mongolian Revolution of 1921: The Mongolian People's Army defeats local Chinese forces at Altanbulag, Selenge (then known as Maimachen). This battle was seen as the birthday of the People's Army and completed the expulsion of Chinese militants in Mongolia.
  14. 1922 In India, Mohandas Gandhi is sentenced to six years in prison for civil disobedience, of which he serves only two.
  15. 1925 The 1925 Tri-State tornado hits the Midwestern states of Missouri, Illinois, and Indiana, killing 695 people.

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