Page 2: Historical Events In March - 18

1657  Giuseppe Ottavio Pitoni, Italian composer.   

1662  inaugural public bus service started by King Louis XIV in Paris for the poor of the city   

1662  The inaugural buses, eight-seater vehicles known as "carrosses a cinq solz", run in Paris   

1673  Lord Berkley sells his half of New Jersey to the Quakers   

1690  Christian Goldbach, German mathematician (Goldbach position).   

1690  Charles, duke of Lutherans, dies.   

1696  Robert Charnock, English conspirator.   

1734  Joseph Schmitt, composer   

1745  Death of Sir Robert Walpole, British Whig statesman and prime minister for a record 21 years   

1745  Robert Walpole, 1st English premier (1722-42), dies at 68 [NS=3/29]   

1754  Duke of Newcastle is recorded as becoming English premier   

1756  Johann Christoph Vogel, composer   

1765  David H Chasse, Dutch baron/general (fought Napoleon at Waterloo)   

1766  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 and Italy), dies   

1773  Oliver Goldsmith' "She Stoops to Conquer", premieres in London   

1773  Oliver Goldsmith' "She Stoops to Conquer," premieres in London.   

1781  Charles Messier rediscovers global cluster M92   

1781  Gustave Vogt, composer   

1782  John Caldwell Calhoun, SC, Andrew Jackson's VP (1825-32)   

1793  2nd Battle at Neerwinden Austria army beats France   

1793  2nd Battle at Neerwinden: Austria army beats France.   

1799  John Randall, composer, dies at 82   

1807  British forces occupy Alexandria but are able to hold it for only 6 months before the Turks force their evacuation   

1810  "Converse", inaugural US opera, premieres in New York   

1810  "Converse," 1st US opera, premieres in NY   

1813  David Melville, Newport RI, patents apparatus for making coal gas.   

1813  David Melville, Newport, RI, patents apparatus for making coal gas.   

1813  Friedrich Hebbel, writer   

1816  Johann Paul Schulthesius, composer, dies at 67   

1817  Johann Jakob Walder, composer, dies at 67   

1818  Congress approves inaugural pensions for government service.   

1818  Congress approves 1st pensions for government service   

1823  Jean-Baptiste Sebastien Breval, composer, dies at 69   

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1380  Liduina van Schiedam, Dutch "Christ's bride"/saint was born on this day in history.   

1395  On March - 18 birth of john Holland, 2nd Duke of Exeter, English military leader (d. 1447)   

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 March - 18 birth of cornelis Ketel, Dutch portrait painter/poet   

1556  On this day in history birth of francois-Hercule de Valois, French duke of Anjou/Brabant   

1578  On March - 18 birth of adam Elsheimer, German painter/cartoonist/etcher, baptized   

1590  Manuel de Faria e Sousa, Portuguese historian and poet (d. 1649) was born on this day in history.   

1602  On this day in history birth of jacques de Billy, French mathematician (d. 1679)   

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

0978  On March - 18 death of edward, the Martyr, King of Anglo-Saxons (975-78)/st, murdered at 15   

1227  Honorius III, [Cencio Savelli], Pope (1216-27), dies on March - 18.   

1314  On March - 18 jacques De Molay, the last grand master of Order of Knights, dies   

1493  On March - 18 john of Lannoy, Flemish governor/viceroy of Neth/Zealand, dies at 82   

1582  Death of Jean Jaurequi, Basque murderer of Willem of Orange, lynched on this day in history.   

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

1584  On this day in history ivan IV, the terrible, Russian tsar (1547-84), dies at 53