Today
Sunday January 18 2026
- Day of the year
- 18/ 365
- Week
- 32,026
- Days left
- 3475%
- Moon
- 0%New moon
Today is Sunday, January 18, 2026. It is day 18 of 2026, a year of 365 days: 347 remain, and 5% of the year has gone. Under ISO 8601 this date falls in week 3.
What's celebrated on this date
No United Nations international day falls on this date.
Coming up
- January 24International Day of Education
- January 27International Holocaust Remembrance Day
- February 2World Wetlands Day
Saints and name days
Saints whose feast falls on this date, most widely known first.
- Charlemagneking of Franks, regarded as the first Holy Roman Emperor (747–814) (742-814)
- Margaret of HungaryHungarian princess and saint (1242-1270)
- Amy CarmichaelMissionary in India
- Saint PriscaRoman saint
- Đorđe BrankovićDespot of Serbia
Sources : Wikidata (P841) · CC0 1.0
Astronomy
New York
- Sunrise
- 07:16
- Sunset
- 16:57
- Length of day
- 9h 40m+2 min vs yesterday
- Solar noon
- 12:06
Times shown for America/New_York
Season
Winter
began on December 21, 2025
Next season
Spring — 61 days, March 20, 2026 (March equinox)
Public holidays — United States
Not a public holiday in the United States.
Next public holiday : Birthday of Martin Luther King, Jr. — January 19, 2026
National holidays only. Regions, provinces and Länder add their own.
Moon
New moon
Illumination : 0%
Moon age : 29.6 days
- Next full moon
- February 1, 2026
- Next new moon
- January 18, 2026
Astrology
Today's zodiac sign
Capricorn
until January 20, 2026 — Aquarius
Zodiac dates are an astrological convention, not the Sun's actual position among the constellations. The astronomy above is measured; this is not.
On this day in history
474
Seven-year-old Leo II succeeds his maternal grandfather Leo I as Byzantine emperor. He dies ten months later. Wikipedia
532
Nika riots in Constantinople fail. Wikipedia
1126
Emperor Huizong abdicates the Chinese throne in favour of his son Emperor Qinzong. Wikipedia
1486
King Henry VII of England marries Elizabeth of York, daughter of Edward IV, uniting the House of Lancaster and the House of York. Wikipedia
1701
Frederick I crowns himself King in Prussia in Königsberg. Wikipedia
1778
James Cook is the first known European to discover the Hawaiian Islands, which he names the "Sandwich Islands". Wikipedia
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1871
Wilhelm I of Germany is proclaimed Kaiser Wilhelm in the Hall of Mirrors of the Palace of Versailles (France) towards the end of the Franco-Prussian War. Wilhelm already had the title of German Emperor since the constitution of 1 January 1871, but he had hesitated to accept the title. Wikipedia
1911
Eugene B. Ely lands on the deck of the USS Pennsylvania anchored in San Francisco Bay, the first time an aircraft landed on a ship. Wikipedia
1919
World War I: The Paris Peace Conference opens in Versailles, France. Wikipedia
1977
Scientists at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announce they have identified a previously unknown bacterium as the cause of the mysterious Legionnaires' disease. Wikipedia
Sources : Wikipedia (en) · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Data imported on 2026-08-26
Births and deaths
Born on this day January 18
- 1519Isabella Jagiellon, Queen of Hungary (died 1559)
- 1641François-Michel le Tellier, Marquis de Louvois, French politician, Secretary of State for War (died 1691)
- 1689Montesquieu, French lawyer and philosopher (died 1755)
- 1782Daniel Webster, American lawyer and politician, 14th United States Secretary of State (died 1852)
- 1835César Cui, Russian general, composer, and critic (died 1918)
- 1841Emmanuel Chabrier, French pianist and composer (died 1894)
- 1937John Hume, Northern Irish educator and politician, Nobel Prize laureate (died 2020)
- 1946Joseph Deiss, Swiss economist and politician, 156th President of the Swiss Confederationturns 80 years
Died on this day January 18
- 1271Saint Margaret of Hungary (born 1242)aged 29 years
- 1367Peter I of Portugal (born 1320)aged 47 years
- 1471Emperor Go-Hanazono of Japan (born 1419)aged 52 years
- 1677Jan van Riebeeck, Dutch politician, founded Cape Town (born 1619)aged 58 years
- 1862John Tyler, American soldier, lawyer, and politician, 10th President of the United States (born 1790)aged 72 years
- 1873Edward Bulwer-Lytton, English author, poet, playwright, and politician, Secretary of State for the Colonies (born 1803)aged 70 years
- 1936Rudyard Kipling, English author and poet, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1865)aged 71 years
- 1995Adolf Butenandt, German biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1903)aged 92 years
Sources : Wikipedia (en) · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Data imported on 2026-08-26
The day in words
In New York the sun rises at 07:16 and sets at 16:57, giving 9h 40m of daylight — 2 minutes more than yesterday. It has been winter since December 21, 2025; spring opens in 61 days, on March 20, 2026 (March equinox).
The moon is new, 0% illuminated. The next full moon falls on February 1, 2026 and the next new moon on January 18, 2026.
The saints' calendar attaches January 18 to Charlemagne, Margaret of Hungary and Amy Carmichael.
No United Nations international day falls on January 18. The next one on the calendar is International Day of Education, on January 24.
It is not a public holiday in the United States.
On this day in history: Seven-year-old Leo II succeeds his maternal grandfather Leo I as Byzantine emperor. He dies ten months later (474); Nika riots in Constantinople fail (532). English Wikipedia records 10 events for this date.
Isabella Jagiellon was born on January 18, 1519; Saint Margaret of Hungary died on January 18, 1271.
341 days remain until Christmas and 348 until New Year's Day.
In astrology — kept separate from the measured astronomy above, deliberately — January 18 falls under the sign of Capricorn.
Calendar
By the numbers
- 5%
- of the year elapsed
- 341
- until Christmas
- 348
- until New Year
- 772
- until the next 29 February
2026 — Common year (365 days)
Work with dates
Sources
Every block on this page names where its data comes from. Nothing here is generated when the source is silent.
- United Nations — International Days— What's celebrated today
- Wikidata (P841)— Saints and name days · CC0 1.0
- Wikipedia (en)— On this day in history · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Data imported on 2026-08-26