Page 2: Historical Events In October - 18

1667  On this day in history english fleet plunders Suriname plantations   

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  On this day in history abraham Willaerts, painter (Brazil), dies   

1672  On this day in history 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 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 this day in history.   

1706  On this day in history baldassare Galuppi, Italian composer (opera's buffa)   

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

1712  On this day in history jeremias van Riemsdijk, gov-general of Dutch Indies (1775-77)   

1748  On this day in history treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle, ends War of Austrian Succession   

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

1767  Boundary between Md & Pa, the Mason Dixon line, agreed upon on this day in history.   

1767  On October - 18 boundary between MD & PA, Mason Dixon line, agreed upon   

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

1771  On October - 18 robert Praelisauer, composer, dies at 62   

1774  Adolfs Muller, writer on this day in history.   

1775  On this day in history african-American poet Phillis Wheatley freed from slavery.   

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

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

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

1788  On October - 18 jean-Guillain Cardon, composer, dies at 56   

1789  Giovanni Tadolini, composer on this day in history.   

1794  On October - 18 ferdinand Lukas Schubert, composer   

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

1806  John Breckinridge Grayson, Brig Genl (Confederate Army), died in 1861 on October - 18.   

1811  On October - 18 hugh Thompson Reid, Brig General (Union volunteers), died in 1874   

1818  Edward Otho Cresap Ord, Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1883 on this day in history.   

1829  On October - 18 charles Sidney Winder, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1862   

1830  On October - 18 peter I Petrovic Njegos, bishop (Montenegro), dies   

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

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1127  Emperor Go-Shirakawa of Japan (d. 1192) was born on this day in history.   

1239  On October - 18 birth of stefanus V, prince of Transylvania/king of Hungary (1270-72)   

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

1517  Manoel da Nóbrega, Portuguese Jesuit in Brazil (d. 1570) was born on October - 18.   

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

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  Valentin Strobel, composer was born on October - 18.   

0707  John VII, Greek Pope (705-07), dies on October - 18.   

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  On this day in history death of margrave Leopold IV of Austria   

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

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

1382  Death of James Butler, 2nd Earl of Ormonde (b. 1331) on October - 18.   

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