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 this day in history.   

1669  On this day in history abraham Willaerts, painter (Brazil), dies   

1672  Poland & Turkey sign Peace of Buczacz on this day in history.   

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  On this day in history louis XIV revokes Edict of Nantes, outlaws Protestantism   

1685  On October - 18 french king Louis XIV revoked Edict van Nantes   

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

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

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  Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle, ends War of Austrian Succession on this day in history.   

1752  On October - 18 premiere of Rousseau's opera "Le Devin du Village"   

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

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

1774  Adolfs Muller, writer on this day in history.   

1775  On October - 18 african-American poet Phillis Wheatley freed from slavery.   

1776  In a NY bar decorated with bird tail, customer orders "cock tail" on October - 18.   

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

1789  On October - 18 giovanni Tadolini, composer   

1794  On October - 18 ferdinand Lukas Schubert, composer   

1804  On October - 18 rama IV, [Phra Chomklao Chaoyuhua], king of Thailand (1851-68)   

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

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

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 this day in history.   

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

1405  Pius II, [Aenea S Piccolomini], Italian pope (1458-64) (Cynthia) was born on October - 18.   

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  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  On this day in history birth of valentin Strobel, composer   

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

1035  Death of Sancho III of Navarre on this day in history.   

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

1141  On October - 18 death of margrave Leopold IV of Austria   

1216  John, king of England (1199-1216, Magna Charta), dies on October - 18.   

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