January 18 is the 18th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar; 347 days remain until the end of the year (348 in leap years Events Pre-1600. 474 – Seven-year-old Leo II succeeds his maternal grandfather Leo I as Byzantine emperor. He dies ten months later. 532 – Nika riots in ...

The January 1910 United Kingdom general election was held from 15 January to 10 February 1910. The government called the election in the midst of a constitutional crisis caused by the rejection of the People's Budget by the Conservative-dominated House of Lords, in order to get a mandate to pass the budget.. The general election resulted in a hung parliament, with the …