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2018 in the Isle of Man

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 11, 2026
Entity authorityQ139761499 ↗
Source-derived summary

Events in the year 2018 in the Isle of Man.

Incumbents

Lord of Mann: Elizabeth II

Lieutenant governor: Richard Gozney

Chief minister:Howard Quayle

Events

25 May–7 June: 2018 Isle of Man TT

Sports

2017–18 Isle of Man Football League

Deaths

11 April: Jim Caine, 91, jazz pianist and radio presenter.

30 May: Dan Kneen, 30, motorcycle rider.

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Begin with the source’s own compact description: “2018 in the Isle of Man” is open-knowledge reference entry. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Isle, Open-knowledge and entry, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2018, 2017—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. For this dossier, Isle, Open-knowledge and entry is the immediate research focus.
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This entry incorporates text from “2018 in the Isle of Man” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.