Page 2: Historical Events In February - 18

1683  On February - 18 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 this day in history.   

1688  On this day in history first vote against slavery is recorded in the U.S. in Germantown, PA.   

1688  On this day in history 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  On this day in history french invade under Jacques Cassard on Curaçao   

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

1716  Gaspard Fritz, composer on this day in history.   

1735  1st opera performed in America, "Flora," in Charleston, SC on this day in history.   

1743  Count Alessandro Volta, Como Italy, physicist on this day in history.   

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 this day in history bonnie Prince Charlies troops occupy Inverness Scotland   

1745  Alessandro Giuseppe Antonio Anastasio Volta, inventor (battery) on this day in history.   

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

1751  Karl Haack, composer on this day in history.   

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

1771  On this day in history friedrich Christian Ruppe, composer   

1775  Thomas Girtin, London, artist/watercolorist on this day in history.   

1776  John Parry, composer on February - 18.   

1781  On February - 18 henry Martyn, Truro, missionary   

1787  On February - 18 austrian emperor Jozef II bans children under 8 from labor   

1790  On this day in history marshall Hall, Basford Nottinghamshire, physician   

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

1795  George Peabody, South Danvers Mass, merchant/philanthropist on February - 18.   

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

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

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

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

1805  On February - 18 louis Malesherbes Goldsborough, Rear Admiral (Union Navy)   

1807  August G Meissner, German estheticus/literary, dies at 53 on February - 18.   

1814  On February - 18 the Battle of Montereau occurs.   

1815  Henri Leys, Flemish painter on this day in history.   

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

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1374  Saint Jadwiga of Poland, queen of Poland (d. 1399) was born on February - 18.   

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

1486  On February - 18 birth of chaitanya Mahaprabhu, Bengali saint, bhakti yoga developer   

1516  On this day in history birth of mary I Tudor, [Bloody Mary], Greenwich, queen of England (1553-58)   

1530  On February - 18 birth of uesugi Kenshin, Japanese samurai and warlord (d. 1578)   

1543  On February - 18 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  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  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  On this day in history death of prince Yaropolk II of Kiev (b. 1082)   

1217  Alexander Neckum de Sancto Albano, Engl encyclopedist, dies at 59 on February - 18.   

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