Historical Events In March - 18

1870  1st US National Wildlife Preserve (Lake Meritt in Oakland Calif) on this day in history.  

1870  On March - 18 joaquin y Garbayo Gaztambide, composer, dies at 48  

1871  On March - 18 communards revolt in Paris France  

1871  On March - 18 communards revolt in Paris  

1872  Frank Hoyt Losey, composer on March - 18.  

1874  Hawaii signs a treaty with the United States granting exclusive trading rights on this day in history.  

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

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

1877  President Hayes appoints Frederick Douglass marshal of Washington DC on March - 18.  

1877  On this day in history 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 March - 18 gian Francesco Malipiero, composer  

1886  Edward Everett Horton, Bkln NY, actor/narrator (Bulwinkle Show) on this day in history.  

1886  On this day in history leopold Zunz, German intellect (Synagogue Poetry), dies at 91  

1888  On March - 18 joseph Csaky, Hungarian/French sculptor  

1889  On this day in history f Rijkens, oldest living person in Netherlands  

1889  On this day in history william Henry Monk, composer, dies at 66  

1890  First US state naval militia organized (Massachusetts) on March - 18.  

1890  On this day in history kaiser Wilhelm forces Bismarck to resign as prime minister  

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

1890  On this day in history gerardus van der Leeuw, Dutch religion historian/minister of Education  

1891  Britain is linked to the continent by Telephone on March - 18.  

1892  Lord Stanley proposes silver challenge cup for hockey (Stanley Cup) on March - 18.  

1892  Lord Stanley presents silver challenge cup for hockey (Stanley Cup) on March - 18.  

1892  Robert P Tristram Coffin, poet/reporter (WW II) on March - 18.  

1893  Wilfred Owen, England, anti-war poet (Anthem for Doomed Youth) on this day in history.  

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

1895  200 blacks leave Savannah, Ga for Liberia on this day in history.  

1897  On this day in history betty Compson, actress (Big City, Docks Of New York)  

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 this day in history.  

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 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  Death of Edward, the Martyr, King of Anglo-Saxons (975-78)/st, murdered at 15 on March - 18.  

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

1314  On this day in history 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 March - 18.  

1583  On this day in history 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