TODAY’S HISTORY– 18th May 2020
- 1096 CE- Crusaders massacre- Jews of Worms
- 1291 CE- After 100 years of Crusader control, Acre is the last Crusader stronghold reconquered and destroyed by the Mamluks under Sultan al-Ashraf Khalil.
- 1268 CE- The Principality of Antioch, a crusader state, falls to the Mamluk Sultan Baibars in the Battle of Antioch.
- 1302 CE- Bruges Matins; the nocturnal massacre of the French garrison in Bruges by local Flemish militia
- 1804 CE- Napoleon Bonaparte proclaimed Emperor of France by the French Senate.
- 1896 CE- Khodynka Tragedy: A mass panic on Khodynka Field, Moscow, during the festivities of the coronation of Russian Tsar Nicholas II, results in the deaths of 1,389 people.
- 1918 CE- Dutch Indian Volksraad installed in Batavia.
- 1974 CE- India becomes the sixth nation to explode an atomic bomb.
- 2009 CE- Sri Lankan Civil War: The LTTE are defeated by the Sri Lankan government, ending almost 26 years of fighting between the two sides.