Historical Events In October - 18

1667  English fleet plunders Suriname plantations on October - 18.   

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  Poland & Turkey sign Peace of Buczacz on October - 18.   

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

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

1685  On October - 18 louis XIV revokes Edict of Nantes, outlaws Protestantism   

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

1708  Henry Van Nassau, stable master/fieldmarshal, dies at 67 on October - 18.   

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 October - 18.   

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

1767  Boundary between Md & Pa, the Mason Dixon line, agreed upon on October - 18.   

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 October - 18 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  On October - 18 in a NY bar decorated with bird tail, customer orders "cock tail"   

1777  Heinrich von Kleist, Germany, dramatist/poet (Penthesilea) on October - 18.   

1785  On October - 18 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  Ferdinand Lukas Schubert, composer on October - 18.   

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

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

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 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 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  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 this day in history.   

1517  Manoel da Nóbrega, Portuguese Jesuit in Brazil (d. 1570) was born on October - 18.   

1547  Justus Lipsius, [Joost Lips], Dutch classic philologist/historian was born on this day in history.   

1569  On October - 18 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  On October - 18 death of sancho III of Navarre   

1101  Death of Hugh of Vermandois, son of Henry I of France (b. 1053) on October - 18.   

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  On October - 18 death of james Butler, 2nd Earl of Ormonde (b. 1331)   

1417  Gregorius XII, [Angelo Correr], Pope (1406-15), dies on October - 18.