What happened on 18 June?

12 events from the Ever-When timeline, ranked by how much they mattered.

1. 1815 Battle of Waterloo Wellington and Blücher defeat Napoleon at Waterloo; ends 22 years of war and inaugurates a century of British global dominance.
2. 1940 Free French resistance under de Gaulle Charles de Gaulle's London-based government in exile rallies French resistance.
3. 1954 Guatemalan coup d'état of 1954 CIA overthrows Árbenz government in Guatemala.
4. 1812 War of 1812 US-British war over trade and impressment; British burn Washington, Andrew Jackson wins New Orleans.
5. 1429 Battle of Patay Six weeks after Orléans, the French cavalry catches the English army in open country before its archers can plant their stakes — and Agincourt happens in reverse: the longbowmen ar
6. 1576 Battle of Haldighati Mughals defeat Mewar's Maharana Pratap, though he eludes capture.
7. 1053 Battle of Civitate Norman adventurers defeat a papal army, cementing their conquest of southern Italy.
8. 1948 LP record introduced Columbia's 33-rpm long-playing record lets a whole symphony or album fit on one disc, reshaping how music is sold and heard.
9. 1798 Alien and Sedition Acts Four acts signed by John Adams restricting immigration and criminalising criticism of the federal government. Bitterly contested by Jefferson and Madison; central to the 1800 elect
10. 1983 Sally Ride: first American woman in space Twenty years after Tereshkova, Sally Ride flies aboard Challenger — and spends the rest of her life getting girls into science.
11. 860 Rus' attack on Constantinople Two hundred Viking ships appear beneath the walls of Constantinople; the raid fails but announces the Norse-founded Rus' to the Byzantine world.
12. 2023 OceanGate Titan implosion An experimental submersible imploding on a dive to the Titanic kills five and grips global attention.