Historical Events In February - 18

1683  On February - 18 nicolaes Pietersz Berchem, Dutch landscape painter/etcher, dies at 62   

1685  On February - 18 fort St. Louis is established by a Frenchman at Matagorda Bay thus forming the basis for France's claim to Texas.   

1688  On February - 18 first vote against slavery is recorded in the U.S. in Germantown, PA.   

1688  Quakers conduct 1st formal protest of slavery in Germantown, Pa on this day in history.   

1712  On this day in history duke of Bourgondie, French king Louis XIV's grandson, dies   

1713  French invade under Jacques Cassard on Curaçao on February - 18.   

1713  French invade under Jacques Cassard on Curacao on this day in history.   

1716  Gaspard Fritz, composer on February - 18.   

1735  1st opera performed in America, "Flora," in Charleston, SC on February - 18.   

1743  On February - 18 count Alessandro Volta, Como Italy, physicist   

1745  On this day in history bonnie Prince Charlie's troops occupy Inverness Scotland   

1745  On this day in history the birth of Alessandro Volta, Italian scientist   

1745  On February - 18 bonnie Prince Charlies troops occupy Inverness Scotland   

1745  On February - 18 alessandro Giuseppe Antonio Anastasio Volta, inventor (battery)   

1745  Nicola Fago, composer, dies at 67 on this day in history.   

1751  Karl Haack, composer on this day in history.   

1770  Johann Christian Heinrich Rinck, composer on February - 18.   

1771  On February - 18 friedrich Christian Ruppe, composer   

1775  On this day in history thomas Girtin, London, artist/watercolorist   

1776  John Parry, composer on February - 18.   

1781  Henry Martyn, Truro, missionary on this day in history.   

1787  Austrian emperor Jozef II bans children under 8 from labor on February - 18.   

1790  On February - 18 marshall Hall, Basford Nottinghamshire, physician   

1790  On February - 18 wilhelm Gottfried Enderle, composer, dies at 67   

1795  On this day in history george Peabody, South Danvers Mass, merchant/philanthropist   

1797  On February - 18 trinidad is surrendered to a British fleet under the command of Sir Ralph Abercromby.   

1799  Maurus Haberhauer, composer, dies at 52 on this day in history.   

1803  On February - 18 j W L Gleim, writer, dies   

1804  1st US land-grant college, Ohio University, Athens Ohio, chartered on this day in history.   

1805  Louis Malesherbes Goldsborough, Rear Admiral (Union Navy) on February - 18.   

1807  On February - 18 august G Meissner, German estheticus/literary, dies at 53   

1814  On this day in history the Battle of Montereau occurs.   

1815  On this day in history henri Leys, Flemish painter   

1817  Lewis Addison Armistead, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1863 on February - 18.   

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1374  On this day in history birth of saint Jadwiga of Poland, queen of Poland (d. 1399)   

1404  On this day in history birth of leon B Alberti, Italian humanist/architect (Della Pittura)   

1486  Chaitanya Mahaprabhu, Bengali saint, bhakti yoga developer was born on this day in history.   

1516  Mary I Tudor, [Bloody Mary], Greenwich, queen of England (1553-58) was born on this day in history.   

1530  Uesugi Kenshin, Japanese samurai and warlord (d. 1578) was born on this day in history.   

1543  On February - 18 birth of charles III, Duke of Lorraine (d. 1608)   

1559  Isaac Casaubon, naturalized English classical scholar, theologian was born on this day in history.   

1602  On this day in history birth of per Brahe (the younger), Swedish soldier (d. 1680)   

0814  On this day in history death of angilbert, Frankish monk and confidant of Charlemagne   

0901  Death of Thabit ibn Qurra, Arab astronomer and mathematician (b. 826) on February - 18.   

0999  Gregory V, [Bruno] 1st German Pope, dies on this day in history.   

1139  Death of Prince Yaropolk II of Kiev (b. 1082) on this day in history.   

1217  On this day in history alexander Neckum de Sancto Albano, Engl encyclopedist, dies at 59   

1294  On this day in history death of kublai Khan, Mongol Emperor (b. 1215)   

1379  On this day in history death of albert II of Mecklenburg (b. 1318)   

1397  On February - 18 enguerrand VII, French master of Coucy/count of Soissons, dies at 56