Page 2: Historical Events In October - 18

1667  On this day in history english fleet plunders Suriname plantations   

1667  On October - 18 fasilides, Emperor of Ethiopia   

1668  On October - 18 johan Georg IV, elector of Saxony (1691-94)   

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 this day in history.   

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 October - 18 baldassare Galuppi, Italian composer (opera's buffa)   

1708  On this day in history henry Van Nassau, stable master/fieldmarshal, dies at 67   

1712  On October - 18 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 October - 18.   

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  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 October - 18.   

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

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

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

1789  On this day in history 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  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  On this day in history charles Sidney Winder, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1862   

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

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 October - 18.   

1239  Stefanus V, prince of Transylvania/king of Hungary (1270-72) was born on this day in history.   

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  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  Edward Winslow, Plymouth Colony founder (d. 1655) was born on October - 18.   

1611  Valentin Strobel, composer was born on October - 18.   

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

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

1101  Death of Hugh of Vermandois, son of Henry I of France (b. 1053) on this day in history.   

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

1216  On October - 18 john, king of England (1199-1216, Magna Charta), dies   

1340  On October - 18 henry Henricus of Friemar, Augustine philosopher, dies   

1382  On this day in history death of james Butler, 2nd Earl of Ormonde (b. 1331)   

1417  On this day in history gregorius XII, [Angelo Correr], Pope (1406-15), dies