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

Contents

· 1Events

o 1.1Computer and video games

o 1.2Movies

o 1.3Literature

o 1.4Television series

o 1.5Science

· 2Deaths

· 3References

Events[change | change source]

· 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.

· April 23 – A white van collided with numerous pedestrians killing nine and injuring sixteen others at Yonge Street in Toronto.^[2]

· 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[change | change source]

Games set in 2018:

· Fortnite (2018)

· Krazy Ivan^[4] (1996)

· Trauma Center: Under the Knife (2005)

· Phoenix Wright: Trials and Tribulations (2007)

Movies[change | change source]

· Rollerball (1975)

· Terminator Salvation (2009)

· I Spit on Your Rave (2010)

· Iron Sky (2011)

Literature[change | change source]

· Halting State (2007) by Charles Stross.

Television series[change | change source]

· The storyline for the sci-fi television series seaQuest DSV begins in 2018.

· The second season of Code Geass takes place in 2018.

Science[change | change source]

· 1,000 petaflops 100 million core computer^[5]

· Driverless Cars^[6]

· Exomars launch

References

TR Welling