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 Template:Indonesia

## Major Conflicts

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

## 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 Template:Pakistan
* June 18 - XXXTentaction (Jahsey Onfroy)
* July 8 - Lord Carrington
* July 15 - Ray Emery
* August 18 - Kofi Annan Template:Ghana
* 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