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This is a list of selected January 18 anniversaries that appear in the "On this day" section of the Main Page. To suggest a new item, in most cases, you can be bold and edit this page. Please read the selected anniversaries guidelines before making your edit. However, if your addition might be controversial or on a day that is or will soon be on the Main Page, please post your suggestion on the talk page instead.

Please note that the events listed on the Main Page are chosen based more on relative article quality and to maintain a mix of topics, not based solely on how important or significant their subjects are. Only four to five events are posted at a time and thus not everything that is "most important and significant" can be listed. In addition, an event is generally not posted this year if it is also the subject of the scheduled featured article or picture of the day.

To report an error when this appears on the Main Page, see Main Page errors. Please remember that this list defers to the supporting articles, so it is best to achieve consensus and make any necessary changes there first.

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Blurb Reason
1486Elizabeth of York married Henry VII of England, becoming Queen consort. {{refimprove}}
1915Japanese Prime Minister Ōkuma Shigenobu issued the Twenty-One Demands to the Republic of China in a bid to increase its power in East Asia. {{more footnotes}}
1955Chinese Civil War: The People's Liberation Army engaged the National Revolutionary Army on the Yijiangshan Islands, one of the last strongholds of nationalist forces near mainland China. {{no footnotes}}
1977 – The mysterious Legionnaires' disease was found to be caused by a previously unknown bacterium now known as Legionella. lead needs to be rewritten
2003 – Bushfires burning out of control began blazing through residential areas of Canberra, Australia, eventually killing four people and damaging or destroying more than 500 homes. {{more footnotes}}

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January 18: Royal Thai Armed Forces Day in Thailand (1591); the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity begins

Wilhelm I of Germany

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