May 18th, 1765

Born on May 18th, 1765

Age in days, weeks and months
Wow, over 95,000 days old!

Why not celebrate an alternative birthday? In 603 days, exactly on March 20th, 2028, people who were born on May 18th, 1765 will be 96,000 days old!

... in seconds, minutes and hours

What happened on May 18th?

May 18th, 2013

Mark Carson, an openly gay man, was murdered in a hate crime incident in New York City, prompting a 1,500-person march against anti-LGBTQ violence.

May 18th, 2018

Cubana de Aviación Flight 0972 crashed near Santiago de las Vegas shortly after takeoff from José Martí International Airport, killing 112 of the 113 people on board.

May 18th, 2005

The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion publicly debuted at the Electronic Entertainment Expo.

May 18th, 2009

The Sri Lanka Army killed Velupillai Prabhakaran, the leader and founder of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam, to bring an end to the 26-year Sri Lankan civil war.

May 18th, 2006

The Parliament of Nepal unanimously voted to strip King Gyanendra of many of his powers.

May 18th, 1996

Ireland won the Eurovision song contest for the seventh time, the highest number of wins for any country before Sweden tied it in 2023.

May 18th, 1965

Eli Cohen, a spy who is credited with gathering significant intelligence used by Israel during the Six-Day War, was publicly hanged in Syria.

May 18th, 1955

Operation Passage to Freedom, the evacuation of 310,000 Vietnamese civilians, soldiers and non-Vietnamese members of the French Army from communist North Vietnam to South Vietnam following the end of the First Indochina War, ended.

May 18th, 1952

First Indochina War: Viet Minh forces overran a French and Laotian garrison at Muong Khoua, leaving only four survivors.

May 18th, 1944

The Soviet Union forcibly deported hundreds of thousands of Crimean Tatars to the Uzbek SSR and elsewhere in the country.

May 18th, 1936

In a crime that captivated Japan, Sada Abe strangled her lover, cut off his genitals, and carried them around with her for several days until her arrest.

May 18th, 1933

U.S. president Franklin D. Roosevelt signed an act establishing the Tennessee Valley Authority to stimulate the economic development of the Tennessee Valley, a region particularly impacted by the Great Depression.

May 18th, 1927

Disgruntled school board treasurer Andrew Kehoe set off explosives with timers and a rifle, causing the Bath School disaster in the Bath Consolidated School in Michigan, killing 44 people in the deadliest mass murder in a school in United States history.

May 18th, 1863

American Civil War: General Ulysses S. Grant led his Army of the Tennessee across the Big Black River in preparation for the Siege of Vicksburg.

May 18th, 1695

An earthquake measuring .mw-parser-output .tooltip-dotted{border-bottom:1px dotted;cursor:help}Ms7.8 struck Shanxi Province in northern China, resulting in at least 52,600 deaths.

Birthdays
... of famous people, actors, celebrities and stars on May 18th

Same year
Born in 1765

71

William IV

King of the United Kingdom and Hanover from 1830 to 1837

*August 21st, 1765, Buckingham Palace †June 20th, 1837, Windsor Castle

72

Thomas Attwood

English composer and organist

*November 23rd, 1765, London †March 24th, 1838, London

78

Jean-Baptiste Drouet, Comte d'Erlon

Marshal of France (1765-1844)

*July 29th, 1765, Reims †January 25th, 1844, Paris

80

Gregory XVI

Pope of the Catholic Church from 1831 to 1846

*September 18th, 1765, Belluno †June 1st, 1846, Rome

49

Robert Fulton

American engineer and inventor (1765–1815)

*November 14th, 1765, Little Britain Township †February 24th, 1815, New York City

50

Václav Thám

Czech playwright and actor

*October 26th, 1765, Prague †January 1st, 1816, Galicia

68

Karl Ludwig Harding

German astronomer (1765-1834)

*September 29th, 1765, Lauenburg/Elbe †August 31st, 1834, Göttingen

78

Martín Fernández de Navarrete

Spanish sailor and historian

*November 9th, 1765, Ábalos †October 8th, 1844, Madrid

82

Petros Mavromichalis

Greek notable of Mani, revolutionary army leader, and politician

*August 6th, 1765, Areopoli †January 1st, 1848, Athens

59

Pierre Margaron

French soldier (1765-1824)

*May 1st, 1765, Lyon †December 16th, 1824, Paris

66

James Mackintosh

British politician (1765-1832)

*October 24th, 1765, Inverness †May 30th, 1832, London

83

Jan Kops

Dutch botanist (1765-1849)

*March 6th, 1765, Amsterdam †January 9th, 1849, Utrecht

75

Isidro González Velázquez

Spanish architect

*May 15th, 1765, Madrid †December 7th, 1840, Madrid

28

Antoine Philippe de La Trémoille

French noble

*September 27th, 1765, Paris †January 27th, 1794, Laval

40

Manuel Maria Barbosa du Bocage

Portuguese writer

*September 15th, 1765, Setúbal †December 21st, 1805, Lisbon

57

Daniel Steibelt

German pianist and composer

*October 22nd, 1765, Berlin †October 2nd, 1823, Saint Petersburg

76

Franz Xaver von Baader

German philosopher and theologian (1765-1841)

*March 27th, 1765, Munich †May 23rd, 1841, Munich

81

Karl Samuel Leberecht Hermann

German chemist (1765-1846)

*January 20th, 1765, Königerode †September 1st, 1846, Schönebeck

51

Samuel Huntington

American politician; Governor of Ohio (1765-1817)

*October 4th, 1765, Coventry †June 8th, 1817, Painesville

52

Alois von Reding

Swiss noble (1765-1818)

*March 6th, 1765, Schwyz †February 5th, 1818, Schwyz

Birthdays of famous people

Public holidays on May 18th

Fixed holidays (Christian feast day) which are celebrated on May 18th.

Date as a Roman numeral / digit

Leap year

No: With 365 days 1765 is a normal year and no leap year.

Calendar
May 1765