Historical Events In February - 18
Thursday, 28 March 2024
1683 On February - 18 nicolaes Pietersz Berchem, Dutch landscape painter/etcher, dies at 62
1685 Fort St. Louis is established by a Frenchman at Matagorda Bay thus forming the basis for France's claim to Texas on February - 18.
1688 First vote against slavery is recorded in the U.S. in Germantown, PA on February - 18.
1688 On February - 18 quakers conduct 1st formal protest of slavery in Germantown, Pa
1712 On February - 18 duke of Bourgondie, French king Louis XIV's grandson, dies
1713 On this day in history french invade under Jacques Cassard on Curaçao
1713 On February - 18 french invade under Jacques Cassard on Curacao
1716 Gaspard Fritz, composer on February - 18.
1735 1st opera performed in America, "Flora," in Charleston, SC on February - 18.
1743 On February - 18 count Alessandro Volta, Como Italy, physicist
1745 Bonnie Prince Charlie's troops occupy Inverness Scotland on February - 18.
1745 The birth of Alessandro Volta, Italian scientist on February - 18.
1745 On February - 18 bonnie Prince Charlies troops occupy Inverness Scotland
1745 On February - 18 alessandro Giuseppe Antonio Anastasio Volta, inventor (battery)
1745 Nicola Fago, composer, dies at 67 on this day in history.
1751 On February - 18 karl Haack, composer
1770 Johann Christian Heinrich Rinck, composer on February - 18.
1771 Friedrich Christian Ruppe, composer on this day in history.
1775 Thomas Girtin, London, artist/watercolorist on this day in history.
1776 On this day in history john Parry, composer
1781 Henry Martyn, Truro, missionary on this day in history.
1787 On February - 18 austrian emperor Jozef II bans children under 8 from labor
1790 On this day in history marshall Hall, Basford Nottinghamshire, physician
1790 On February - 18 wilhelm Gottfried Enderle, composer, dies at 67
1795 On February - 18 george Peabody, South Danvers Mass, merchant/philanthropist
1797 On February - 18 trinidad is surrendered to a British fleet under the command of Sir Ralph Abercromby.
1799 Maurus Haberhauer, composer, dies at 52 on February - 18.
1803 J W L Gleim, writer, dies on February - 18.
1804 On February - 18 1st US land-grant college, Ohio University, Athens Ohio, chartered
1805 On February - 18 louis Malesherbes Goldsborough, Rear Admiral (Union Navy)
1807 August G Meissner, German estheticus/literary, dies at 53 on February - 18.
1814 On this day in history the Battle of Montereau occurs.
1815 On February - 18 henri Leys, Flemish painter
1817 On this day in history lewis Addison Armistead, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1863
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