Historical Events In March - 18

1870  On March - 18 1st US National Wildlife Preserve (Lake Meritt in Oakland Calif)   

1870  Joaquin y Garbayo Gaztambide, composer, dies at 48 on this day in history.   

1871  Communards revolt in Paris France on this day in history.   

1871  On this day in history communards revolt in Paris   

1872  Frank Hoyt Losey, composer on March - 18.   

1874  Hawaii signs a treaty with the United States granting exclusive trading rights on March - 18.   

1875  On March - 18 ferdinand Laub, composer, dies at 43   

1876  F Freiligrath, writer, dies at 65 on March - 18.   

1877  On this day in history president Hayes appoints Frederick Douglass marshal of Washington DC   

1877  President Hayes appoints Frederick Douglass marshal of Wash DC on March - 18.   

1877  On March - 18 clem Hill, cricketer (all-time great Australian batsman)   

1881  On March - 18 barnum & Bailey's Greatest Show on Earth opens (MSG)   

1881  On March - 18 oliver Seibert, hall of fame hockey player (elected 1963)   

1882  On March - 18 gian Francesco Malipiero, composer   

1886  On March - 18 edward Everett Horton, Bkln NY, actor/narrator (Bulwinkle Show)   

1886  Leopold Zunz, German intellect (Synagogue Poetry), dies at 91 on March - 18.   

1888  On this day in history joseph Csaky, Hungarian/French sculptor   

1889  On March - 18 f Rijkens, oldest living person in Netherlands   

1889  William Henry Monk, composer, dies at 66 on this day in history.   

1890  On March - 18 first US state naval militia organized (Massachusetts)   

1890  Kaiser Wilhelm forces Bismarck to resign as prime minister on this day in history.   

1890  1st US state naval militia organized (Massachusetts) on March - 18.   

1890  Gerardus van der Leeuw, Dutch religion historian/minister of Education on this day in history.   

1891  Britain is linked to the continent by Telephone on this day in history.   

1892  On this day in history lord Stanley proposes silver challenge cup for hockey (Stanley Cup)   

1892  Lord Stanley presents silver challenge cup for hockey (Stanley Cup) on this day in history.   

1892  On this day in history robert P Tristram Coffin, poet/reporter (WW II)   

1893  On March - 18 wilfred Owen, England, anti-war poet (Anthem for Doomed Youth)   

1895  On March - 18 200 blacks leave Savannah GA for Liberia   

1895  200 blacks leave Savannah, Ga for Liberia on this day in history.   

1897  On March - 18 betty Compson, actress (Big City, Docks Of New York)   

1898  Otto Jochum, composer on March - 18.   

1899  On this day in history phoebe, a moon of Saturn is discovered by Pickering   

1899  Lavrenti Beria, chief of Soviet secret police under Stalin on March - 18.   

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1380  Liduina van Schiedam, Dutch "Christ's bride"/saint was born on this day in history.   

1395  John Holland, 2nd Duke of Exeter, English military leader (d. 1447) was born on this day in history.   

1496  On March - 18 birth of mary Tudor, daughter of Henry VII of England and queen consort of Louis XII of France (d. 1533)   

1548  On this day in history birth of cornelis Ketel, Dutch portrait painter/poet   

1556  Francois-Hercule de Valois, French duke of Anjou/Brabant was born on this day in history.   

1578  On this day in history birth of adam Elsheimer, German painter/cartoonist/etcher, baptized   

1590  Manuel de Faria e Sousa, Portuguese historian and poet (d. 1649) was born on March - 18.   

1602  Jacques de Billy, French mathematician (d. 1679) was born on March - 18.   

0235  Death of Marcus Aurelius Alexander, Syrian emperor of Rome (222-235), murdered on March - 18.   

0978  Death of Edward, the Martyr, King of Anglo-Saxons (975-78)/st, murdered at 15 on March - 18.   

1227  Honorius III, [Cencio Savelli], Pope (1216-27), dies on March - 18.   

1314  On March - 18 jacques De Molay, the last grand master of Order of Knights, dies   

1493  On this day in history john of Lannoy, Flemish governor/viceroy of Neth/Zealand, dies at 82   

1582  Death of Jean Jaurequi, Basque murderer of Willem of Orange, lynched on March - 18.   

1583  Death of King Magnus of Livonia (b. 1540) on March - 18.   

1584  Ivan IV, the terrible, Russian tsar (1547-84), dies at 53 on March - 18.