Page 2: Historical Events In February - 18

1683  On this day in history nicolaes Pietersz Berchem, Dutch landscape painter/etcher, dies at 62   

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

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

1688  On February - 18 quakers conduct 1st formal protest of slavery in Germantown, Pa   

1712  On February - 18 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 this day in history.   

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

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 February - 18 the birth of Alessandro Volta, Italian scientist   

1745  Bonnie Prince Charlies troops occupy Inverness Scotland on this day in history.   

1745  On this day in history alessandro Giuseppe Antonio Anastasio Volta, inventor (battery)   

1745  On February - 18 nicola Fago, composer, dies at 67   

1751  On this day in history karl Haack, composer   

1770  Johann Christian Heinrich Rinck, composer on this day in history.   

1771  Friedrich Christian Ruppe, composer on February - 18.   

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

1776  On this day in history john Parry, composer   

1781  On this day in history henry Martyn, Truro, missionary   

1787  On this day in history austrian emperor Jozef II bans children under 8 from labor   

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

1790  Wilhelm Gottfried Enderle, composer, dies at 67 on February - 18.   

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

1797  Trinidad is surrendered to a British fleet under the command of Sir Ralph Abercromby on this day in history.   

1799  On February - 18 maurus Haberhauer, composer, dies at 52   

1803  J W L Gleim, writer, dies on this day in history.   

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 this day in history.   

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

1814  The Battle of Montereau occurs on this day in history.   

1815  On this day in history henri Leys, Flemish painter   

1817  On this day in history lewis Addison Armistead, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1863   

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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  On this day in history birth of mary I Tudor, [Bloody Mary], Greenwich, queen of England (1553-58)   

1530  Uesugi Kenshin, Japanese samurai and warlord (d. 1578) was born on February - 18.   

1543  On this day in history birth of charles III, Duke of Lorraine (d. 1608)   

1559  On this day in history birth of isaac Casaubon, naturalized English classical scholar, theologian   

1602  Per Brahe (the younger), Swedish soldier (d. 1680) was born on this day in history.   

0814  Death of Angilbert, Frankish monk and confidant of Charlemagne on this day in history.   

0901  On this day in history death of thabit ibn Qurra, Arab astronomer and mathematician (b. 826)   

0999  On this day in history gregory V, [Bruno] 1st German Pope, dies   

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

1217  Alexander Neckum de Sancto Albano, Engl encyclopedist, dies at 59 on this day in history.   

1294  On February - 18 death of kublai Khan, Mongol Emperor (b. 1215)   

1379  Death of Albert II of Mecklenburg (b. 1318) on February - 18.   

1397  Enguerrand VII, French master of Coucy/count of Soissons, dies at 56 on February - 18.