18

This article is about the year 18. For the number, see 18 (number). For other uses, see 18 (disambiguation).

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

18 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	18 XVIII
Ab urbe condita	771
Assyrian calendar	4768
Bengali calendar	−575
Berber calendar	968
Buddhist calendar	562
Burmese calendar	−620
Byzantine calendar	5526–5527
Chinese calendar	丁丑年 (Fire Ox) 2714 or 2654     — to — 戊寅年 (Earth Tiger) 2715 or 2655
Coptic calendar	−266 – −265
Discordian calendar	1184
Ethiopian calendar	10–11
Hebrew calendar	3778–3779
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	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
Julian calendar	18 XVIII
Korean calendar	2351
Minguo calendar	1894 before ROC 民前1894年
Seleucid era	329/330 AG
Thai solar calendar	560–561

Year 18 (XVIII) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Augustus and Caesar (or, less frequently, year 771 Ab urbe condita). The denomination 18 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.

Events

By place

Roman Empire

• Emperor Tiberius and Germanicus are Roman Consuls.
• A vexillatio (sub-unit or detachment) of Legio III Augusta is destroyed by an ambush in Africa.
• The German chieftain Arminius destroys the kingdom of the Marcomanni.

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.

Parthia

• Germanicus concludes a peace treaty with Artabanus II of Parthia, in which he is recognized as king and friend of Rome.

China

• After a flooding of the Yellow River farmers are forced to rebel. Emperor Wang Mang reacts by sending an army (some 100,000 men) against the agrarian rebels. The rebel leaders, concerned that during battle it would become impossible to tell friend from foe, order that their men color their eyebrows red – and this is where the name Chimei ("The Red Eyebrows") comes from.

India

• In India, the Indo-Parthians control Taxila.

Deaths

• Ovid, Roman poet (or 17)
• Yang Xiong, Chinese philosopher, poet, and author (b. 53 BC)