Page 2: Historical Events In February - 18

1683  On this day in history 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 this day in history.   

1688  On February - 18 first vote against slavery is recorded in the U.S. in Germantown, PA.   

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 February - 18 french invade under Jacques Cassard on Curaçao   

1713  On this day in history french invade under Jacques Cassard on Curacao   

1716  On this day in history gaspard Fritz, composer   

1735  On February - 18 1st opera performed in America, "Flora," in Charleston, SC   

1743  On this day in history count Alessandro Volta, Como Italy, physicist   

1745  On this day in history bonnie Prince Charlie's troops occupy Inverness Scotland   

1745  On this day in history the birth of Alessandro Volta, Italian scientist   

1745  On February - 18 bonnie Prince Charlies troops occupy Inverness Scotland   

1745  On this day in history alessandro Giuseppe Antonio Anastasio Volta, inventor (battery)   

1745  On this day in history nicola Fago, composer, dies at 67   

1751  On this day in history karl Haack, composer   

1770  On February - 18 johann Christian Heinrich Rinck, composer   

1771  Friedrich Christian Ruppe, composer on this day in history.   

1775  Thomas Girtin, London, artist/watercolorist on February - 18.   

1776  John Parry, composer on this day in history.   

1781  On February - 18 henry Martyn, Truro, missionary   

1787  Austrian emperor Jozef II bans children under 8 from labor on this day in history.   

1790  On February - 18 marshall Hall, Basford Nottinghamshire, physician   

1790  Wilhelm Gottfried Enderle, composer, dies at 67 on this day in history.   

1795  George Peabody, South Danvers Mass, merchant/philanthropist on February - 18.   

1797  Trinidad is surrendered to a British fleet under the command of Sir Ralph Abercromby on this day in history.   

1799  On this day in history maurus Haberhauer, composer, dies at 52   

1803  On this day in history j W L Gleim, writer, dies   

1804  1st US land-grant college, Ohio University, Athens Ohio, chartered on this day in history.   

1805  Louis Malesherbes Goldsborough, Rear Admiral (Union Navy) on this day in history.   

1807  On this day in history august G Meissner, German estheticus/literary, dies at 53   

1814  On February - 18 the Battle of Montereau occurs.   

1815  Henri Leys, Flemish painter on February - 18.   

1817  On February - 18 lewis Addison Armistead, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1863   

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1374  On this day in history birth of saint Jadwiga of Poland, queen of Poland (d. 1399)   

1404  Leon B Alberti, Italian humanist/architect (Della Pittura) was born on February - 18.   

1486  Chaitanya Mahaprabhu, Bengali saint, bhakti yoga developer was born on this day in history.   

1516  On February - 18 birth of mary I Tudor, [Bloody Mary], Greenwich, queen of England (1553-58)   

1530  Uesugi Kenshin, Japanese samurai and warlord (d. 1578) was born on this day in history.   

1543  On February - 18 birth of charles III, Duke of Lorraine (d. 1608)   

1559  On February - 18 birth of isaac Casaubon, naturalized English classical scholar, theologian   

1602  On this day in history birth of per Brahe (the younger), Swedish soldier (d. 1680)   

0814  Death of Angilbert, Frankish monk and confidant of Charlemagne on this day in history.   

0901  Death of Thabit ibn Qurra, Arab astronomer and mathematician (b. 826) on February - 18.   

0999  Gregory V, [Bruno] 1st German Pope, dies on February - 18.   

1139  Death of Prince Yaropolk II of Kiev (b. 1082) on this day in history.   

1217  Alexander Neckum de Sancto Albano, Engl encyclopedist, dies at 59 on this day in history.   

1294  Death of Kublai Khan, Mongol Emperor (b. 1215) on this day in history.   

1379  Death of Albert II of Mecklenburg (b. 1318) on this day in history.   

1397  Enguerrand VII, French master of Coucy/count of Soissons, dies at 56 on February - 18.