Page 2: Historical Events In October - 18

1667  English fleet plunders Suriname plantations on this day in history.   

1667  Fasilides, Emperor of Ethiopia on this day in history.   

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  On October - 18 poland & Turkey sign Peace of Buczacz   

1676  Nathaniel Bacon, rallied against Virginian govt, killed at 29 on October - 18.   

1678  On October - 18 cornelis Galle II, Flemish engraver/illustrator, dies at 63   

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

1685  On this day in history french king Louis XIV revoked Edict van Nantes   

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

1706  Baldassare Galuppi, Italian composer (opera's buffa) on October - 18.   

1708  Henry Van Nassau, stable master/fieldmarshal, dies at 67 on October - 18.   

1712  On October - 18 jeremias van Riemsdijk, gov-general of Dutch Indies (1775-77)   

1748  On October - 18 treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle, ends War of Austrian Succession   

1752  On October - 18 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 this day in history.   

1767  Joseph Paul Ziegler, composer, dies at 45 on October - 18.   

1771  On this day in history robert Praelisauer, composer, dies at 62   

1774  On this day in history adolfs Muller, writer   

1775  African-American poet Phillis Wheatley freed from slavery on October - 18.   

1776  On October - 18 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  Giovanni Tadolini, composer on October - 18.   

1794  Ferdinand Lukas Schubert, composer on this day in history.   

1804  Rama IV, [Phra Chomklao Chaoyuhua], king of Thailand (1851-68) on October - 18.   

1806  John Breckinridge Grayson, Brig Genl (Confederate Army), died in 1861 on this day in history.   

1811  Hugh Thompson Reid, Brig General (Union volunteers), died in 1874 on this day in history.   

1818  On October - 18 edward Otho Cresap Ord, Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1883   

1829  Charles Sidney Winder, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1862 on October - 18.   

1830  On this day in history peter I Petrovic Njegos, bishop (Montenegro), dies   

1831  Frederik III NK of Hohenzollern, German Kaiser/king of Prussia on October - 18.   

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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 October - 18.   

1405  Pius II, [Aenea S Piccolomini], Italian pope (1458-64) (Cynthia) was born on this day in history.   

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  Giambattista Marini, Italian poet (d. 1625) was born on this day in history.   

1595  On this day in history birth of edward Winslow, Plymouth Colony founder (d. 1655)   

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

0707  On October - 18 john VII, Greek Pope (705-07), dies   

1035  On October - 18 death of sancho III of Navarre   

1101  Death of Hugh of Vermandois, son of Henry I of France (b. 1053) on October - 18.   

1141  Death of Margrave Leopold IV of Austria on this day in history.   

1216  On this day in history john, king of England (1199-1216, Magna Charta), dies   

1340  On this day in history henry Henricus of Friemar, Augustine philosopher, dies   

1382  On this day in history death of james Butler, 2nd Earl of Ormonde (b. 1331)   

1417  Gregorius XII, [Angelo Correr], Pope (1406-15), dies on October - 18.