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

1669  On October - 18 abraham Willaerts, painter (Brazil), dies   

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

1676  On this day in history 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  On October - 18 french king Louis XIV revoked Edict van Nantes   

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

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

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 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 this day in history.   

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 this day in history.   

1771  Robert Praelisauer, composer, dies at 62 on October - 18.   

1774  Adolfs Muller, writer on October - 18.   

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 October - 18.   

1777  Heinrich von Kleist, Germany, dramatist/poet (Penthesilea) on this day in history.   

1785  On this day in history thomas Love Peacock, English author (Headlong Hall)   

1788  Jean-Guillain Cardon, composer, dies at 56 on this day in history.   

1789  On October - 18 giovanni Tadolini, composer   

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

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

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  On this day in history 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  On October - 18 frederik III NK of Hohenzollern, German Kaiser/king of Prussia   

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1127  On this day in history 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  Manoel da Nóbrega, Portuguese Jesuit in Brazil (d. 1570) was born on October - 18.   

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

1569  Giambattista Marini, Italian poet (d. 1625) was born on October - 18.   

1595  Edward Winslow, Plymouth Colony founder (d. 1655) was born on this day in history.   

1611  Valentin Strobel, composer was born on this day in history.   

0707  On this day in history john VII, Greek Pope (705-07), dies   

1035  Death of Sancho III of Navarre on October - 18.   

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

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  On October - 18 death of james Butler, 2nd Earl of Ormonde (b. 1331)   

1417  On October - 18 gregorius XII, [Angelo Correr], Pope (1406-15), dies