Historical Events In October - 18

1667  On October - 18 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 October - 18.  

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

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

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

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 October - 18 french king Louis XIV revoked Edict van Nantes  

1697  Giovanni Canaletto, Venetian painter (Venicei Regatta on Grand Canal) on this day in history.  

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

1752  On this day in history 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  On this day in history boundary between MD & PA, Mason Dixon line, agreed upon  

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

1771  Robert Praelisauer, composer, dies at 62 on this day in history.  

1774  Adolfs Muller, writer on this day in history.  

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

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

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

1785  Thomas Love Peacock, English author (Headlong Hall) on this day in history.  

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

1789  On October - 18 giovanni Tadolini, composer  

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

1804  On October - 18 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  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  Charles Sidney Winder, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1862 on October - 18.  

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

1831  Frederik III NK of Hohenzollern, German Kaiser/king of Prussia on this day in history.  

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

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 this day in history.  

1547  On this day in history 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 this day in history.  

1611  On October - 18 birth of valentin Strobel, composer  

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

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

1340  Henry Henricus of Friemar, Augustine philosopher, dies on this day in history.  

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 this day in history.