Page 4: Historical Events In March - 18

1870  Joaquin y Garbayo Gaztambide, composer, dies at 48   

1871  Communards revolt in Paris France.   

1871  Communards revolt in Paris.   

1872  Frank Hoyt Losey, composer.   

1874  Hawaii signs a treaty with the United States granting exclusive trading rights.   

1875  Ferdinand Laub, composer, dies at 43.   

1876  F Freiligrath, writer, dies at 65.   

1877  President Hayes appoints Frederick Douglass marshal of Washington DC.   

1877  President Hayes appoints Frederick Douglass marshal of Wash DC.   

1877  Clem Hill, cricketer (all-time great Australian batsman)   

1881  Barnum and Bailey's Greatest Show on Earth opens (MSG).   

1881  Oliver Seibert, hall of fame hockey player (elected 1963).   

1882  Gian Francesco Malipiero, composer   

1886  Edward Everett Horton, Bkln NY, actor/narrator (Bulwinkle Show).   

1886  Leopold Zunz, German intellect (Synagogue Poetry), dies at 91   

1888  Joseph Csaky, Hungarian/French sculptor   

1889  F Rijkens, oldest living person in Netherlands.   

1889  William Henry Monk, composer, dies at 66   

1890  inaugural US state naval militia organized (Massachusetts).   

1890  Kaiser Wilhelm forces Bismarck to resign as prime minister   

1890  1st US state naval militia organized (Massachusetts)   

1890  Gerardus van der Leeuw, Dutch religion historian/minister of Education.   

1891  Britain is linked to the continent by Telephone   

1892  Lord Stanley proposes silver challenge cup for hockey (Stanley Cup)   

1892  Lord Stanley presents silver challenge cup for hockey (Stanley Cup)   

1892  Robert P Tristram Coffin, poet/reporter (WW II)   

1893  Wilfred Owen, England, anti-war poet (Anthem for Doomed Youth).   

1895  200 blacks leave Savannah GA for Liberia   

1895  200 blacks leave Savannah, Ga for Liberia   

1897  Betty Compson, actress (Big City, Docks Of New York)   

1898  Otto Jochum, composer.   

1899  Phoebe, a moon of Saturn is discovered by Pickering.   

1899  Lavrenti Beria, chief of Soviet secret police under Stalin.   

1899  Douglas Strutt Galton, English engineer (rails, trains), dies at 76.   

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

1395  John Holland, 2nd Duke of Exeter, English military leader (d. 1447) was born on this day in history.   

1496  Mary Tudor, daughter of Henry VII of England and queen consort of Louis XII of France (d. 1533) was born on this day in history.   

1548  Cornelis Ketel, Dutch portrait painter/poet was born on March - 18.   

1556  Francois-Hercule de Valois, French duke of Anjou/Brabant was born on this day in history.   

1578  Adam Elsheimer, German painter/cartoonist/etcher, baptized was born on this day in history.   

1590  On March - 18 birth of manuel de Faria e Sousa, Portuguese historian and poet (d. 1649)   

1602  On March - 18 birth of jacques de Billy, French mathematician (d. 1679)   

0235  On this day in history death of marcus Aurelius Alexander, Syrian emperor of Rome (222-235), murdered   

0978  On this day in history 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  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  Death of Jean Jaurequi, Basque murderer of Willem of Orange, lynched on March - 18.   

1583  Death of King Magnus of Livonia (b. 1540) on March - 18.   

1584  Ivan IV, the terrible, Russian tsar (1547-84), dies at 53 on March - 18.