Page 2: Historical Events In October - 18

1667  On October - 18 english fleet plunders Suriname plantations   

1667  On October - 18 fasilides, Emperor of Ethiopia   

1668  On October - 18 johan Georg IV, elector of Saxony (1691-94)   

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

1672  On this day in history poland & Turkey sign Peace of Buczacz   

1676  Nathaniel Bacon, rallied against Virginian govt, killed at 29 on this day in history.   

1678  On October - 18 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 October - 18.   

1697  On October - 18 giovanni Canaletto, Venetian painter (Venicei Regatta on Grand Canal)   

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

1708  On October - 18 henry Van Nassau, stable master/fieldmarshal, dies at 67   

1712  Jeremias van Riemsdijk, gov-general of Dutch Indies (1775-77) on October - 18.   

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

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 this day in history.   

1767  On October - 18 joseph Paul Ziegler, composer, dies at 45   

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

1774  On October - 18 adolfs Muller, writer   

1775  African-American poet Phillis Wheatley freed from slavery on this day in history.   

1776  In a NY bar decorated with bird tail, customer orders "cock tail" on this day in history.   

1777  On this day in history heinrich von Kleist, Germany, dramatist/poet (Penthesilea)   

1785  Thomas Love Peacock, English author (Headlong Hall) on October - 18.   

1788  On October - 18 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  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 October - 18.   

1829  Charles Sidney Winder, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1862 on this day in history.   

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 October - 18.   

1405  On October - 18 birth of pius II, [Aenea S Piccolomini], Italian pope (1458-64) (Cynthia)   

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

1547  Justus Lipsius, [Joost Lips], Dutch classic philologist/historian was born on October - 18.   

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

1595  On October - 18 birth of edward Winslow, Plymouth Colony founder (d. 1655)   

1611  Valentin Strobel, composer was born on October - 18.   

0707  On this day in history 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 this day in history.   

1141  Death of Margrave Leopold IV of Austria on October - 18.   

1216  John, king of England (1199-1216, Magna Charta), dies on this day in history.   

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 October - 18.