Portal:Germany/Anniversaries/January/January 18

Coronation of William I

• 1701 – Frederick I is crowned King in Prussia
• 1871 – William I is crowned German Emperor in the Palace of Versailles
• 1914 – Birth of author Arno Schmidt
• 1919 – The Paris Peace Conference opens to negotiate peace in the aftermath of World War I
• 1995 – Death of biochemist Adolf Butenandt, winner of the 1939 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his work on sex hormones