Page 2: Historical Events In October - 18

1667  On this day in history english fleet plunders Suriname plantations   

1667  On this day in history fasilides, Emperor of Ethiopia   

1668  Johan Georg IV, elector of Saxony (1691-94) on this day in history.   

1669  Abraham Willaerts, painter (Brazil), dies on this day in history.   

1672  Poland & Turkey sign Peace of Buczacz on October - 18.   

1676  On October - 18 nathaniel Bacon, rallied against Virginian govt, killed at 29   

1678  Cornelis Galle II, Flemish engraver/illustrator, dies at 63 on October - 18.   

1685  Louis XIV revokes Edict of Nantes, outlaws Protestantism on this day in history.   

1685  French king Louis XIV revoked Edict van Nantes on October - 18.   

1697  Giovanni Canaletto, Venetian painter (Venicei Regatta on Grand Canal) on October - 18.   

1706  Baldassare Galuppi, Italian composer (opera's buffa) on this day in history.   

1708  Henry Van Nassau, stable master/fieldmarshal, dies at 67 on this day in history.   

1712  Jeremias van Riemsdijk, gov-general of Dutch Indies (1775-77) on this day in history.   

1748  Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle, ends War of Austrian Succession on October - 18.   

1752  Premiere of Rousseau's opera "Le Devin du Village" on October - 18.   

1767  On October - 18 boundary between Md & Pa, the Mason Dixon line, agreed upon   

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 October - 18 african-American poet Phillis Wheatley freed from slavery.   

1776  On October - 18 in a NY bar decorated with bird tail, customer orders "cock tail"   

1777  On October - 18 heinrich von Kleist, Germany, dramatist/poet (Penthesilea)   

1785  On October - 18 thomas Love Peacock, English author (Headlong Hall)   

1788  Jean-Guillain Cardon, composer, dies at 56 on October - 18.   

1789  Giovanni Tadolini, composer on October - 18.   

1794  Ferdinand Lukas Schubert, composer on October - 18.   

1804  Rama IV, [Phra Chomklao Chaoyuhua], king of Thailand (1851-68) on this day in history.   

1806  On October - 18 john Breckinridge Grayson, Brig Genl (Confederate Army), died in 1861   

1811  On this day in history hugh Thompson Reid, Brig General (Union volunteers), died in 1874   

1818  Edward Otho Cresap Ord, Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1883 on October - 18.   

1829  On this day in history charles Sidney Winder, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1862   

1830  Peter I Petrovic Njegos, bishop (Montenegro), dies on this day in history.   

1831  On October - 18 frederik III NK of Hohenzollern, German Kaiser/king of Prussia   

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1127  On October - 18 birth of emperor Go-Shirakawa of Japan (d. 1192)   

1239  Stefanus V, prince of Transylvania/king of Hungary (1270-72) was born on this day in history.   

1405  Pius II, [Aenea S Piccolomini], Italian pope (1458-64) (Cynthia) was born on October - 18.   

1517  On this day in history birth of manoel da Nóbrega, Portuguese Jesuit in Brazil (d. 1570)   

1547  On October - 18 birth of justus Lipsius, [Joost Lips], Dutch classic philologist/historian   

1569  On this day in history birth of giambattista Marini, Italian poet (d. 1625)   

1595  Edward Winslow, Plymouth Colony founder (d. 1655) was born on October - 18.   

1611  On this day in history birth of valentin Strobel, composer   

0707  John VII, Greek Pope (705-07), dies on this day in history.   

1035  On this day in history death of sancho III of Navarre   

1101  On October - 18 death of hugh of Vermandois, son of Henry I of France (b. 1053)   

1141  On October - 18 death of margrave Leopold IV of Austria   

1216  John, king of England (1199-1216, Magna Charta), dies on October - 18.   

1340  Henry Henricus of Friemar, Augustine philosopher, dies on October - 18.   

1382  Death of James Butler, 2nd Earl of Ormonde (b. 1331) on this day in history.   

1417  Gregorius XII, [Angelo Correr], Pope (1406-15), dies on this day in history.