Page 4: Historical Events In March - 18

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

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

1871  On March - 18 communards revolt in Paris France   

1871  On this day in history communards revolt in Paris   

1872  Frank Hoyt Losey, composer on this day in history.   

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

1875  On March - 18 ferdinand Laub, composer, dies at 43   

1876  On this day in history f Freiligrath, writer, dies at 65   

1877  President Hayes appoints Frederick Douglass marshal of Washington DC on this day in history.   

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

1877  Clem Hill, cricketer (all-time great Australian batsman) on March - 18.   

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

1881  Oliver Seibert, hall of fame hockey player (elected 1963) on March - 18.   

1882  On March - 18 gian Francesco Malipiero, composer   

1886  Edward Everett Horton, Bkln NY, actor/narrator (Bulwinkle Show) on March - 18.   

1886  On March - 18 leopold Zunz, German intellect (Synagogue Poetry), dies at 91   

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

1889  F Rijkens, oldest living person in Netherlands on this day in history.   

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

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

1890  Kaiser Wilhelm forces Bismarck to resign as prime minister on March - 18.   

1890  1st US state naval militia organized (Massachusetts) on March - 18.   

1890  Gerardus van der Leeuw, Dutch religion historian/minister of Education on March - 18.   

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  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  Wilfred Owen, England, anti-war poet (Anthem for Doomed Youth) on March - 18.   

1895  On this day in history 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 this day in history.   

1899  On March - 18 lavrenti Beria, chief of Soviet secret police under Stalin   

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1380  Liduina van Schiedam, Dutch "Christ's bride"/saint was born on March - 18.   

1395  On this day in history 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  On March - 18 birth of manuel de Faria e Sousa, Portuguese historian and poet (d. 1649)   

1602  Jacques de Billy, French mathematician (d. 1679) was born on March - 18.   

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 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  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 March - 18.