Historical Events In October - 18
Friday, 29 March 2024
1667 English fleet plunders Suriname plantations on October - 18.
1667 On October - 18 fasilides, Emperor of Ethiopia
1668 On this day in history johan Georg IV, elector of Saxony (1691-94)
1669 On this day in history abraham Willaerts, painter (Brazil), dies
1672 Poland & Turkey sign Peace of Buczacz on October - 18.
1676 On this day in history nathaniel Bacon, rallied against Virginian govt, killed at 29
1678 On this day in history cornelis Galle II, Flemish engraver/illustrator, dies at 63
1685 Louis XIV revokes Edict of Nantes, outlaws Protestantism on October - 18.
1685 French king Louis XIV revoked Edict van Nantes on this day in history.
1697 Giovanni Canaletto, Venetian painter (Venicei Regatta on Grand Canal) on October - 18.
1706 On October - 18 baldassare Galuppi, Italian composer (opera's buffa)
1708 Henry Van Nassau, stable master/fieldmarshal, dies at 67 on this day in history.
1712 On October - 18 jeremias van Riemsdijk, gov-general of Dutch Indies (1775-77)
1748 Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle, ends War of Austrian Succession on October - 18.
1752 On this day in history premiere of Rousseau's opera "Le Devin du Village"
1767 Boundary between Md & Pa, the Mason Dixon line, agreed upon on this day in history.
1767 Boundary between MD & PA, Mason Dixon line, agreed upon on October - 18.
1767 Joseph Paul Ziegler, composer, dies at 45 on this day in history.
1771 Robert Praelisauer, composer, dies at 62 on October - 18.
1774 Adolfs Muller, writer on October - 18.
1775 On this day in history african-American poet Phillis Wheatley freed from slavery.
1776 On this day in history in a NY bar decorated with bird tail, customer orders "cock tail"
1777 On this day in history heinrich von Kleist, Germany, dramatist/poet (Penthesilea)
1785 Thomas Love Peacock, English author (Headlong Hall) on this day in history.
1788 On this day in history jean-Guillain Cardon, composer, dies at 56
1789 On October - 18 giovanni Tadolini, composer
1794 On this day in history ferdinand Lukas Schubert, composer
1804 On this day in history rama IV, [Phra Chomklao Chaoyuhua], king of Thailand (1851-68)
1806 On this day in history john Breckinridge Grayson, Brig Genl (Confederate Army), died in 1861
1811 Hugh Thompson Reid, Brig General (Union volunteers), died in 1874 on October - 18.
1818 Edward Otho Cresap Ord, Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1883 on this day in history.
1829 Charles Sidney Winder, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1862 on October - 18.
1830 Peter I Petrovic Njegos, bishop (Montenegro), dies on October - 18.
1831 Frederik III NK of Hohenzollern, German Kaiser/king of Prussia on October - 18.
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