February 18 in History: Historical Events, Birthdays, Deaths & Holidays

1685  Fort St. Louis is established by a Frenchman at Matagorda Bay thus forming the basis for France's claim to Texas   

1688  inaugural vote against slavery is recorded in the U.S. in Germantown, PA   

1688  Quakers conduct 1st formal protest of slavery in Germantown, Pa.   

1712  Duke of Bourgondie, French king Louis XIV's grandson, dies.   

1713  French invade under Jacques Cassard on Curacao   

1716  Gaspard Fritz, composer.   

1735  1st opera performed in America, "Flora," in Charleston, SC.   

1743  Count Alessandro Volta, Como Italy, physicist.   

1745  Bonnie Prince Charlie's troops occupy Inverness Scotland   

1745  Alessandro Volta, Italian scientist is born   

1745  Alessandro Giuseppe Antonio Anastasio Volta, inventor (battery).   

1745  Nicola Fago, composer, dies at 67   

1751  Karl Haack, composer   

1770  Johann Christian Heinrich Rinck, composer   

1771  Friedrich Christian Ruppe, composer.   

1775  Thomas Girtin, London, artist/watercolorist   

1776  John Parry, composer.   

1781  Henry Martyn, Truro, missionary.   

1787  Austrian emperor Jozef II bans children under 8 from labor   

1790  Marshall Hall, Basford Nottinghamshire, physician   

1790  Wilhelm Gottfried Enderle, composer, dies at 67   

1795  George Peabody, South Danvers Mass, merchant/philanthropist   

1797  Trinidad is surrendered to a British fleet under the command of Sir Ralph Abercromby.   

1799  Maurus Haberhauer, composer, dies at 52.   

1803  J W L Gleim, writer, dies   

1804  1st US land-grant college, Ohio University, Athens Ohio, chartered.   

1805  Louis Malesherbes Goldsborough, Rear Admiral (Union Navy)   

1807  August G Meissner, German estheticus/literary, dies at 53   

1814  The Battle of Montereau occurs   

1815  Henri Leys, Flemish painter.   

1817  Lewis Addison Armistead, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1863.   

1817  Giacomo Quarenghi, master builder (Hermitage Theater), dies at 72   

1819  Joseph Philbrick Webster, composer   

1828  More than 100 vessels destroyed in a storm, near Gibraltar   

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1374  Saint jadwiga of poland: Queen of poland   

1404  Leon b alberti: Italian humanist/architect (della pittura)   

1486  Chaitanya mahaprabhu: Bengali saint, bhakti yoga developer   

1516  Mary i tudor: [bloody mary], greenwich, queen of england (1553-58)   

1530  Uesugi kenshin: Japanese samurai and warlord   

1543  Charles iii: Duke of lorraine   

1559  Isaac casaubon: Naturalized english classical scholar, theologian   

1602  Per brahe (the younger): Swedish soldier   

0814  Angilbert: Frankish monk and confidant of charlemagne   

0901  Death of Thabit ibn qurra: Arab astronomer and mathematician (b. 826)   

0999  Gregory v: [bruno] 1st german pope,   

1139  Prince yaropolk ii of kiev: Prince yaropolk ii of kiev (b. 1082)   

1217  Death of Alexander neckum de sancto albano: Engl encyclopedist,   

1294  Death of Kublai khan: Mongol emperor (b. 1215)   

1379  Death of Albert ii of mecklenburg: Albert ii of mecklenburg (b. 1318)   

1397  Enguerrand vii: French master of coucy/count of soissons,