2018

2018 (MMXVIII) was a common year starting on Monday in the Gregorian calendar.

Millennium:	3rd millennium
Centuries:	20th century – 21st century – 22nd century
Decades:	1980s  1990s  2000s  – 2010s –  2020s  2030s  2040s
Years:	2015 2016 2017 – 2018 – 2019 2020 2021

2018 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	2018 MMXVIII
Ab urbe condita	2771
Armenian calendar	1467 ԹՎ ՌՆԿԷ
Assyrian calendar	6768
Bahá'í calendar	174–175
Balinese saka calendar	1939–1940
Bengali calendar	1425
Berber calendar	2968
British Regnal year	66 Eliz. 2 – 67 Eliz. 2
Buddhist calendar	2562
Burmese calendar	1380
Byzantine calendar	7526–7527
Chinese calendar	丁酉年 (Fire Rooster) 4714 or 4654     — to — 戊戌年 (Earth Dog) 4715 or 4655
Coptic calendar	1734–1735
Discordian calendar	3184
Ethiopian calendar	2010–2011
Hebrew calendar	5778–5779
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	2074–2075
- Shaka Samvat	1939–1940
- Kali Yuga	5118–5119
Holocene calendar	12018
Igbo calendar	1018–1019
Iranian calendar	1396–1397
Islamic calendar	1439–1440
Japanese calendar	Heisei 30 (平成３０年)
Javanese calendar	1951–1952
Juche calendar	107
Julian calendar	Gregorian minus 13 days
Korean calendar	4351
Minguo calendar	ROC 107 民國107年
Nanakshahi calendar	550
Thai solar calendar	2561
Tibetan calendar	མེ་མོ་བྱ་ལོ་ (female Fire-Bird) 2144 or 1763 or 991     — to — ས་ཕོ་ཁྱི་ལོ་ (male Earth-Dog) 2145 or 1764 or 992
Unix time	1514764800 – 1546300799

Events

• January 1 – Estonia takes over the Presidency of the Council of the European Union from the United Kingdom.
• January 20-22 – The United States government enters a shutdown due to a dispute over the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA)
• February did not experience a completely realized full moon this year^[1]
• February 9-25 – 2018 Winter Olympics were held in Pyeongchang, South Korea.
• March 1 – President Donald Trump announced import for tariff steel 25% and 10% of Aluminum.
• March 8 – Women Democratic Front started a 'Women's Freedom March' along with other groups to protest violence against women and other issues related to women in Pakistan.
• April 23 – A white van collided with numerous pedestrians killing nine and injuring sixteen others at Yonge Street in Toronto.^[2]
• May 9 – Mahathir Mohamad's opposition coalition wins Malaysia's general election. Mahathir previously served as the country's prime minister from 1981 to 2003.
• June 14 - July 15 — 2018 FIFA World Cup was held in Russia.
• July 1 – Andrés Manuel López Obrador is elected President of Mexico.
• July 1 – Bulgaria takes over the Presidency of the Council of the European Union from Estonia.
• July 27 – Mars made its closest approach to Earth since 2003. It will not be as close as the 2003 opposition.
• August 11 – The final Drum Corps International World Championship to be held in the Lucas Oil Stadium in Indianapolis, Indiana, after an 11-year run.
• September 16 – Swedish general election for the Riksdag take place.
• September 28 – An earthquake and tsunami hits Sulawesi, Indonesia killing 2,256 people.
• October 23 – The Hong Kong–Zhuhai–Macau Bridge is opened for the public to use. It is the longest bridge in the world that crosses a sea.^[3]
• November 6 – The United States mid-term elections take place.
• December 22 – A tsunami hits the Sunda Strait in Indonesia, killing more than 430 people.

Computer and video games

Games set in 2018:

• Fortnite (2018)
• Krazy Ivan^[4] (1996)
• Trauma Center: Under the Knife (2005)
• Phoenix Wright: Trials and Tribulations (2007)

Movies

• Rollerball (1975)
• Terminator Salvation (2009)
• I Spit on Your Rave (2010)
• Iron Sky (2011)

Literature

• Halting State (2007) by Charles Stross.

Television series

• The storyline for the sci-fi television series seaQuest DSV begins in 2018.
• The second season of Code Geass takes place in 2018.

Science

• 1,000 petaflops 100 million core computer^[5]
• Driverless Cars^[6]
• Exomars launch

Births

• June 22 - Kashe Quest

Deaths

Further information: Deaths in 2018