📅 Today in HistoryMarch 18

Roman Senate annuls Tiberius' will and proclaims Gaius Julius Caesar Augustus Germanicus (aka Caligula = Little Boots) emperor.

An earthquake in the Levant and the Arabian Peninsula leaves up to 20,000 dead.

Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor, declares himself King of Jerusalem in the Sixth Crusade.

First Mongol invasion of Poland: Mongols overwhelm Polish armies in Kraków in the Battle of Chmielnik and plunder the city.

Jacques de Molay, the 23rd and final Grand Master of the Knights Templar, is burned at the stake.

Albert II of Habsburg becomes King of the Romans.

Valletta is made the capital city of Malta.

Susenyos is formally crowned Emperor of Ethiopia.

The Third Anglo-Powhatan War begins in the Colony of Virginia.

English lord John Berkeley sold his half of New Jersey to the Quakers