Page 2: Historical Events In October - 18

1667  English fleet plunders Suriname plantations on this day in history.   

1667  On October - 18 fasilides, Emperor of Ethiopia   

1668  Johan Georg IV, elector of Saxony (1691-94) on this day in history.   

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

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

1676  Nathaniel Bacon, rallied against Virginian govt, killed at 29 on this day in history.   

1678  Cornelis Galle II, Flemish engraver/illustrator, dies at 63 on October - 18.   

1685  Louis XIV revokes Edict of Nantes, outlaws Protestantism on October - 18.   

1685  French king Louis XIV revoked Edict van Nantes on October - 18.   

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

1706  On October - 18 baldassare Galuppi, Italian composer (opera's buffa)   

1708  On October - 18 henry Van Nassau, stable master/fieldmarshal, dies at 67   

1712  On this day in history jeremias van Riemsdijk, gov-general of Dutch Indies (1775-77)   

1748  On October - 18 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 this day in history.   

1767  Boundary between MD & PA, Mason Dixon line, agreed upon on October - 18.   

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

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

1774  On October - 18 adolfs Muller, writer   

1775  African-American poet Phillis Wheatley freed from slavery on this day in history.   

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

1777  On this day in history heinrich von Kleist, Germany, dramatist/poet (Penthesilea)   

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  Giovanni Tadolini, composer on October - 18.   

1794  On this day in history ferdinand Lukas Schubert, composer   

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

1806  John Breckinridge Grayson, Brig Genl (Confederate Army), died in 1861 on October - 18.   

1811  Hugh Thompson Reid, Brig General (Union volunteers), died in 1874 on this day in history.   

1818  Edward Otho Cresap Ord, Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1883 on this day in history.   

1829  Charles Sidney Winder, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1862 on October - 18.   

1830  Peter I Petrovic Njegos, bishop (Montenegro), dies on October - 18.   

1831  On October - 18 frederik III NK of Hohenzollern, German Kaiser/king of Prussia   

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1127  On October - 18 birth of emperor Go-Shirakawa of Japan (d. 1192)   

1239  On this day in history 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 this day in history.   

1517  On October - 18 birth of manoel da Nóbrega, Portuguese Jesuit in Brazil (d. 1570)   

1547  On this day in history birth of justus Lipsius, [Joost Lips], Dutch classic philologist/historian   

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 this day in history.   

0707  On October - 18 john VII, Greek Pope (705-07), dies   

1035  On this day in history 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 October - 18.   

1216  On this day in history john, king of England (1199-1216, Magna Charta), dies   

1340  Henry Henricus of Friemar, Augustine philosopher, dies on October - 18.   

1382  Death of James Butler, 2nd Earl of Ormonde (b. 1331) on this day in history.   

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