Historical Events In March - 18

1657  Giuseppe Ottavio Pitoni, Italian composer on March - 18.  

1662  On March - 18 first public bus service started by King Louis XIV in Paris for the poor of the city  

1662  The first buses, eight-seater vehicles known as "carrosses a cinq solz", run in Paris on March - 18.  

1673  Lord Berkley sells his half of New Jersey to the Quakers on March - 18.  

1690  Christian Goldbach, German mathematician (Goldbach position) on March - 18.  

1690  On March - 18 charles, duke of Lutherans, dies  

1696  On March - 18 robert Charnock, English conspirator  

1734  Joseph Schmitt, composer on this day in history.  

1745  Death of Sir Robert Walpole, British Whig statesman and prime minister for a record 21 years on this day in history.  

1745  Robert Walpole, 1st English premier (1722-42), dies at 68 [NS=3/29] on this day in history.  

1754  On March - 18 duke of Newcastle becomes English premier  

1756  Johann Christoph Vogel, composer on March - 18.  

1765  David H Chasse, Dutch baron/general (fought Napoleon at Waterloo) on March - 18.  

1766  On March - 18 after four months of organized American protests, the British Parliament repeals the Stamp Act, a taxation measure enacted to raise revenues for a standing British army in America  

1768  Lawrence Sterne, writer (Sentimental Journey France & Italy), dies on this day in history.  

1773  Oliver Goldsmith' "She Stoops to Conquer", premieres in London on March - 18.  

1773  Oliver Goldsmith' "She Stoops to Conquer," premieres in London on this day in history.  

1781  On this day in history charles Messier rediscovers global cluster M92  

1781  On this day in history gustave Vogt, composer  

1782  John Caldwell Calhoun, SC, Andrew Jackson's VP (1825-32) on this day in history.  

1793  On this day in history 2nd Battle at Neerwinden Austria army beats France  

1793  On this day in history 2nd Battle at Neerwinden: Austria army beats France  

1799  On this day in history john Randall, composer, dies at 82  

1807  On March - 18 british forces occupy Alexandria but are able to hold it for only 6 months before the Turks force their evacuation  

1810  On this day in history "Converse", first US opera, premieres in New York  

1810  "Converse," 1st US opera, premieres in NY on March - 18.  

1813  David Melville, Newport RI, patents apparatus for making coal gas on this day in history.  

1813  On this day in history david Melville, Newport, RI, patents apparatus for making coal gas  

1813  On March - 18 friedrich Hebbel, writer  

1816  Johann Paul Schulthesius, composer, dies at 67 on March - 18.  

1817  On March - 18 johann Jakob Walder, composer, dies at 67  

1818  Congress approves first pensions for government service on March - 18.  

1818  On this day in history congress approves 1st pensions for government service  

1823  On this day in history jean-Baptiste Sebastien Breval, composer, dies at 69  

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1380  On March - 18 birth of liduina van Schiedam, Dutch "Christ's bride"/saint  

1395  John Holland, 2nd Duke of Exeter, English military leader (d. 1447) was born on March - 18.  

1496  On this day in history 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  On March - 18 birth of francois-Hercule de Valois, French duke of Anjou/Brabant  

1578  Adam Elsheimer, German painter/cartoonist/etcher, baptized was born on March - 18.  

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 this day in history.  

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

0978  On this day in history death of edward, the Martyr, King of Anglo-Saxons (975-78)/st, murdered at 15  

1227  On March - 18 honorius III, [Cencio Savelli], Pope (1216-27), dies  

1314  Jacques De Molay, the last grand master of Order of Knights, dies on March - 18.  

1493  John of Lannoy, Flemish governor/viceroy of Neth/Zealand, dies at 82 on March - 18.  

1582  On this day in history death of jean Jaurequi, Basque murderer of Willem of Orange, lynched  

1583  On March - 18 death of king Magnus of Livonia (b. 1540)  

1584  Ivan IV, the terrible, Russian tsar (1547-84), dies at 53 on this day in history.