Portal:Transport/Selected anniversaries/August 18
- 1541 – A Portuguese ship drifts ashore in the ancient Japanese province of Higo (modern day Kumamoto Prefecture).
- 1883 – Construction on the Canadian Pacific Railway reaches Calgary, Alberta.
- 1990 – The Gråkallbanen (pictured), part of the Trondheim Tramway, Norway, is reopened after the city council permanently closed the tramway in 1988.