The year

2018 File:2018 Events Collage.png, From top left, clockwise: The 2018 Winter Olympics opening ceremony in PyeongChang, South Korea; Protests erupt following the Assassination of Jamal Khashoggi; March for Our Lives protests take place across the United ...

was the 237th year of the Rattanakosin Kingdom of Thailand. It was the 3rd year in the reign of King

Vajiralongkorn Vajiralongkorn ( th, วชิราลงกรณ; , ; born 28 July 1952) is the King of Thailand. He is the only son of King Bhumibol Adulyadej and Queen Sirikit. In 1972, at the age of 20, he was made crown prince by his father. After his ...

(Rama X), and was the year 2561 in the

Buddhist Era The Buddhist calendar is a set of lunisolar calendars primarily used in Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar, India, Sri Lanka, and Thailand as well as in Malaysia, Singapore and Vietnam by Chinese populations for religious or official occasions. While the ...

Incumbents

* King:

* Prime Minister: Prayut Chan-o-cha * Supreme Patriarch: Ariyavongsagatanana VIII

Events

*29 April – Protesters rally against a housing project for Ministry of Justice government officials in Chiang Mai, which was seen as encroaching on forest land. *22 May – Protests against the military rule mark the fourth anniversary of the

2014 Thai coup d'état On 22 May 2014, the Royal Thai Armed Forces, led by General Prayut Chan-o-cha, Commander of the Royal Thai Army (RTA), launched a coup d'état, the 12th since the country's first coup in 1932, against the caretaker government of Thailand, foll ...

. *18 June – Thailand executes its first execution in nine years and the man was the country's seventh person to be executed by means of lethal injection. *23 June onwards – Tham Luang cave rescue *5 July –

2018 Phuket boat capsizing On 5 July 2018, two tourist boats capsized and sank near Phuket, Thailand, during a sudden storm. 46 people died and three were missing, all of whom were on the double-decker ship ''Phoenix PC Diving'', which carried 101 people, including 89 tou ...

*17 December – Miss Universe 2018

Deaths

*21 January –

Chartchai Chionoi Chartchai Chionoi ( th, ชาติชาย เชี่ยวน้อย; ) a.k.a. Chartchai Laemfapha ( th, ชาติชาย แหลมฟ้าผ่า; ) or birth name Naris Chionoi ( th, นริศ เชี่ยวน้อ� ...

, boxer, WBC world champion and WBA world champion in flyweight (b. 1942). *6 July –

Saman Gunan In June and July 2018, a junior association football team and their assistant coach were rescued from the Tham Luang Nang Non cave in Chiang Rai Province in northern Thailand. Twelve members of the team, aged 11 to 16, and their 25-year-old ass ...

, diver, participant in Tham Luang cave rescue. *6 August –

Nat Indrapana Nat Indrapana ( th, ณัฐ อินทรปาณ; 6 March 1938 – 6 August 2018) was a Thai sports executive. He was also a member of the International Olympic Committee from 1990 until his death. He had a Bachelor and Master of Science d ...

, IOC Member in Thailand. *27 October – Vichai Srivaddhanaprabha, 60, duty-free retailer ( King Power) and football club owner Leicester City),

helicopter crash A helicopter is a type of rotorcraft in which lift and thrust are supplied by horizontally spinning rotors. This allows the helicopter to take off and land vertically, to hover, and to fly forward, backward and laterally. These attributes ...

References

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