Following are some of the major events to have occurred on June 18:
1583 – The first Leiden University, the oldest in the Netherlands, is founded.
1671 – King Charles II and the French ambassador sign a treaty by which England acquires the islands of Tobago and Grenada.
1778 – American Revolutionary War: The Battle of Monmouth: American forces under George Washington fight British troops under Sir Henry Clinton to a standstill in Monmouth County, New Jersey.
1812 – The United States declares war on the United Kingdom, beginning the War of 1812.
1815 – Napoleonic Wars: The Battle of Waterloo results in the defeat of Napoleon Bonaparte and the end of his rule.
1858 – Charles Darwin receives a paper from Alfred Russel Wallace that includes nearly identical conclusions about evolution as Darwin’s own, prompting Darwin to publish his theory.
1873 – Susan B. Anthony is fined $100 for attempting to vote in the 1872 United States presidential election, as women did not yet have the right to vote.
1928 – Aviator Amelia Earhart becomes the first woman to fly in a successful transatlantic flight, as a passenger on the Fokker F.VII Friendship.
1940 – World War II: Marshal Philippe Pétain becomes Chief of State of Vichy France (Chef de l’État Français).
1979 – Jimmy Carter and Leonid Brezhnev sign the SALT II agreement in Vienna..
