Historical Events In July - 18
Thursday, 28 March 2024
1735 Johann Krieger, composer, dies at 83 on July - 18.
1737 On July - 18 battle at Banja Luka: Turkish army beats Austrians
1743 On July - 18 1st half-page newspaper ad is published (NY Weekly Journal)
1753 On this day in history lemuel Haynes, escapes from slaveholder in Framingham Mass
1753 Lemuel Haynes, escapes from slave holder in Framingham Mass on this day in history.
1766 Society of the Dutch Literary forms on this day in history.
1768 Boston Gazette publishes "Liberty Song," America's 1st patriotic song on this day in history.
1775 Continental Congress resolves that each colony provide armed vessels on this day in history.
1779 On this day in history commodore Abraham Whipple's squadron captures 11 prizes in largest prize value of Revolutionary War.
1792 John Paul Jones dies in Paris, France on this day in history.
1796 Feargus O'Connor, County Cork, leader of English Chartists on this day in history.
1810 On July - 18 peter Singer, composer
1811 The birth of W.M Thackery, English novelist on this day in history.
1811 William Makepeace Thackeray, England, Victorian novelist (Vanity Fair) on this day in history.
1813 On July - 18 u.S. Frigate President captures British Daphne, Eliza Swan, Alert and Lion.
1814 On this day in history british capture Prairie du Chien (Wisc)
1817 Jane Austen, writer, dies on this day in history.
1823 On July - 18 leonard Fulton Ross, Brig General (Union volunteers), died in 1901
1827 Pierre L Goossens, archbishop of Mechelen/Cardinal on July - 18.
1831 Thomas Greatorex, composer, dies at 72 on this day in history.
1833 On July - 18 joseph Comb, missionary to Moluccas, dies at 63
1848 On this day in history william Gilbert Grace, Victorian England's greatest cricketer
1853 The first train to cross the US-Canada boundary, Portland, Me.- Montréal, PQ on July - 18.
1853 On July - 18 completion of Grand Trunk Line, trains begin running over 1st North American railroad between Portland, Maine & Montreal
1853 On this day in history hendrik Antoon Lorentz, Holland, physicist (Nobel 1902)
1854 On July - 18 abbas Hilmi I, viceroy of Egypt, dies at about 41
1857 Louis Faidherbe, French governor of Senegal, arrives to relieve French forces at Kayes, effectively ending El Hajj Umar Tall's war against the French on July - 18.
1861 Battle of Blackburn's Ford, VA US57 CS68 on this day in history.
1862 On this day in history battle of Newburgh, IN
1862 Victor, Prince Napoleon (Napoleon V), French pretender to throne on this day in history.
1863 Battle of Fort Wagner, SC on this day in history.
1863 William Dorsey Pender, US Confederate gen-mjr, dies of injuries at 29 on this day in history.
1864 President Lincoln asks for 500,000 volunteers for milt service on July - 18.
1864 Ricarda Huch, writer on July - 18.
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