2018

2018 was a standard year in the Common era. The year is notable for the foreign missile strikes Syria, as well as diplomatic missions held between the US and North Korea.

Major Events

 * January 20 - Turkey begins military offense against Kurdish forces
 * January 24 - The first ever monkey clones are born in China
 * Febuary 9-25 - 2018 Winter Olympics held in PeyongChang, South Korea
 * Febuary 14 - South African president Jacob Zuma resigns
 * March 11 - Xi Jinping becomes president for life in China
 * March 18 - Vladimir Putin is elected for a fourth term
 * March 24 - "March for Our Lives" 🇺🇸
 * March 26 - Over 100 Russian diplomats are expelled from 20 countries
 * April 13 - The US, UK, and France order the bombing of a Syrian military base 🇺🇸
 * April 18 - Movie theatres are allowed to open in Saudi Arabia for the first time since 1983
 * April 19 - Miguel Díaz-Canel becomes president of Cuba
 * April 27 - Kim Jong-un visit South Korea to meet with their president, Moon Jae-in
 * May 2 - The terrorist Basque separatist group, ETA, announces its final dissolution
 * May 5 - NASA's InSight space probe is launched
 * May 19 - Prince Harry is marries to Meghan Markle
 * June 12 - United States president Donald Trump meets with North Korean supreme leader Kim Jong-un 🇺🇸
 * June 12 - Macedonia settles its dispute with Greece, and is renamed to the Republic of North Macedonia
 * June 24 - Saudi Arabia allows women to drive 🇺🇸
 * July 6 - The United States launches tariffs against China 🇺🇸
 * August 2 - Apple becomes the first company to have a market capitalization of over $1 Trillion
 * September 2 - The national bank of Brazil is destroyed in a fire
 * October 2 - New York Times journalist Jamal Khasoghi is murdered by the Saudi Arabian government
 * October 10 - Hurricane Michael strikes Florida 🇺🇸
 * October 16 - Canada legalizes the sale of cannabis
 * October 27 - Michael D. Higgins is declared as the 9th president of Ireland
 * October 28 - Far-right candidate Jair Bolsonaro is elected president of Brazil
 * November 4 - New Caledonia holds an independence referendum in which they vote to remain with France
 * November 6 - The United States holds its 2018 midterm elections 🇺🇸
 * November 8 - California experiences its deadliest wildfire fire in history, know as the Camp Fire 🇺🇸
 * November 11 - 100th anniversary of the end of World War I
 * November 26 - NASA's InSight spaceprobe touches down on Mars 🇺🇸
 * November 27 - Russia seizes 3 Ukrainian ships in the Kerch state, causing Ukraine to declare martial law
 * December 1-8 - French Civil Protestests of 2018
 * December 22 - An Indonesian tsunami strikes the Sunda Strait, killing over 430 people

Major Conflicts

 * Syrian Civil War    🇺🇸
 * War in Afghanistan 🇺🇸
 * Mexican Drug War
 * Kurdish-Turkish Conflict
 * Somali Civil War

Briths

 * March 9 - Prince Louis of Cambridge

Deaths

 * January 5 - John Young 🇺🇸
 * Febuary 13 - Prince Henrik
 * Febuary 21 - Billy Graham 🇺🇸
 * March 7 - Reynaldo Bignone
 * March 14 - Stephen Hawking 🇺🇸
 * April 17 - Barbara Bush 🇺🇸
 * April 20 - Avicii (Tim Berglimg)
 * May 26 - Alan Bean 🇺🇸
 * June 14 - Fazlullah
 * June 18 - XXXTentaction (Jahsey Onfroy) 🇺🇸
 * July 8 - Lord Carrington
 * July 15 - Ray Emery
 * August 18 - Kofi Annan
 * August 25 - John McCain 🇺🇸
 * August 31 - Alexander Zakharchenko
 * October 15 - Paul Allen 🇺🇸
 * November 12 - Stan Lee 🇺🇸
 * November 26 - Stephan Hillenburg 🇺🇸
 * November 30 - George HW Bush 🇺🇸