Historical Events In March - 18

1870  On March - 18 1st US National Wildlife Preserve (Lake Meritt in Oakland Calif)  

1870  Joaquin y Garbayo Gaztambide, composer, dies at 48 on this day in history.  

1871  Communards revolt in Paris France on this day in history.  

1871  Communards revolt in Paris on March - 18.  

1872  On this day in history frank Hoyt Losey, composer  

1874  On March - 18 hawaii signs a treaty with the United States granting exclusive trading rights.  

1875  Ferdinand Laub, composer, dies at 43 on this day in history.  

1876  On March - 18 f Freiligrath, writer, dies at 65  

1877  On this day in history president Hayes appoints Frederick Douglass marshal of Washington DC  

1877  On March - 18 president Hayes appoints Frederick Douglass marshal of Wash DC  

1877  On March - 18 clem Hill, cricketer (all-time great Australian batsman)  

1881  Barnum & Bailey's Greatest Show on Earth opens (MSG) on this day in history.  

1881  On this day in history oliver Seibert, hall of fame hockey player (elected 1963)  

1882  On this day in history gian Francesco Malipiero, composer  

1886  On March - 18 edward Everett Horton, Bkln NY, actor/narrator (Bulwinkle Show)  

1886  Leopold Zunz, German intellect (Synagogue Poetry), dies at 91 on March - 18.  

1888  On this day in history joseph Csaky, Hungarian/French sculptor  

1889  On March - 18 f Rijkens, oldest living person in Netherlands  

1889  William Henry Monk, composer, dies at 66 on this day in history.  

1890  First US state naval militia organized (Massachusetts) on this day in history.  

1890  Kaiser Wilhelm forces Bismarck to resign as prime minister on this day in history.  

1890  On this day in history 1st US state naval militia organized (Massachusetts)  

1890  On March - 18 gerardus van der Leeuw, Dutch religion historian/minister of Education  

1891  On this day in history britain is linked to the continent by Telephone  

1892  Lord Stanley proposes silver challenge cup for hockey (Stanley Cup) on this day in history.  

1892  On this day in history lord Stanley presents silver challenge cup for hockey (Stanley Cup)  

1892  Robert P Tristram Coffin, poet/reporter (WW II) on this day in history.  

1893  On March - 18 wilfred Owen, England, anti-war poet (Anthem for Doomed Youth)  

1895  On March - 18 200 blacks leave Savannah GA for Liberia  

1895  200 blacks leave Savannah, Ga for Liberia on March - 18.  

1897  Betty Compson, actress (Big City, Docks Of New York) on March - 18.  

1898  Otto Jochum, composer on March - 18.  

1899  Phoebe, a moon of Saturn is discovered by Pickering on March - 18.  

1899  Lavrenti Beria, chief of Soviet secret police under Stalin on March - 18.  

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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  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 this day in history birth of manuel de Faria e Sousa, Portuguese historian and poet (d. 1649)  

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

0235  On March - 18 death of marcus Aurelius Alexander, Syrian emperor of Rome (222-235), murdered  

0978  Death of Edward, the Martyr, King of Anglo-Saxons (975-78)/st, murdered at 15 on this day in history.  

1227  On this day in history honorius III, [Cencio Savelli], Pope (1216-27), dies  

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

1493  John of Lannoy, Flemish governor/viceroy of Neth/Zealand, dies at 82 on this day in history.  

1582  On March - 18 death of jean Jaurequi, Basque murderer of Willem of Orange, lynched  

1583  Death of King Magnus of Livonia (b. 1540) on this day in history.  

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