Page 4: Historical Events In March - 18

1870  On this day in history 1st US National Wildlife Preserve (Lake Meritt in Oakland Calif)   

1870  Joaquin y Garbayo Gaztambide, composer, dies at 48 on March - 18.   

1871  On this day in history communards revolt in Paris France   

1871  Communards revolt in Paris on this day in history.   

1872  Frank Hoyt Losey, composer on this day in history.   

1874  Hawaii signs a treaty with the United States granting exclusive trading rights on March - 18.   

1875  Ferdinand Laub, composer, dies at 43 on this day in history.   

1876  F Freiligrath, writer, dies at 65 on March - 18.   

1877  President Hayes appoints Frederick Douglass marshal of Washington DC on March - 18.   

1877  On March - 18 president Hayes appoints Frederick Douglass marshal of Wash DC   

1877  Clem Hill, cricketer (all-time great Australian batsman) on this day in history.   

1881  On this day in history barnum & Bailey's Greatest Show on Earth opens (MSG)   

1881  Oliver Seibert, hall of fame hockey player (elected 1963) on March - 18.   

1882  Gian Francesco Malipiero, composer on this day in history.   

1886  Edward Everett Horton, Bkln NY, actor/narrator (Bulwinkle Show) on this day in history.   

1886  Leopold Zunz, German intellect (Synagogue Poetry), dies at 91 on March - 18.   

1888  Joseph Csaky, Hungarian/French sculptor on this day in history.   

1889  F Rijkens, oldest living person in Netherlands on March - 18.   

1889  On March - 18 william Henry Monk, composer, dies at 66   

1890  First US state naval militia organized (Massachusetts) on this day in history.   

1890  On March - 18 kaiser Wilhelm forces Bismarck to resign as prime minister   

1890  On this day in history 1st US state naval militia organized (Massachusetts)   

1890  On this day in history gerardus van der Leeuw, Dutch religion historian/minister of Education   

1891  On March - 18 britain is linked to the continent by Telephone   

1892  Lord Stanley proposes silver challenge cup for hockey (Stanley Cup) on March - 18.   

1892  Lord Stanley presents silver challenge cup for hockey (Stanley Cup) on March - 18.   

1892  On March - 18 robert P Tristram Coffin, poet/reporter (WW II)   

1893  Wilfred Owen, England, anti-war poet (Anthem for Doomed Youth) on this day in history.   

1895  200 blacks leave Savannah GA for Liberia on this day in history.   

1895  On March - 18 200 blacks leave Savannah, Ga for Liberia   

1897  Betty Compson, actress (Big City, Docks Of New York) on March - 18.   

1898  On this day in history otto Jochum, composer   

1899  On this day in history phoebe, a moon of Saturn is discovered by Pickering   

1899  Lavrenti Beria, chief of Soviet secret police under Stalin on March - 18.   

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1380  Liduina van Schiedam, Dutch "Christ's bride"/saint was born on this day in history.   

1395  On March - 18 birth of john Holland, 2nd Duke of Exeter, English military leader (d. 1447)   

1496  On this day in history birth of mary Tudor, daughter of Henry VII of England and queen consort of Louis XII of France (d. 1533)   

1548  Cornelis Ketel, Dutch portrait painter/poet was born on this day in history.   

1556  Francois-Hercule de Valois, French duke of Anjou/Brabant was born on this day in history.   

1578  Adam Elsheimer, German painter/cartoonist/etcher, baptized was born on March - 18.   

1590  On this day in history birth of manuel de Faria e Sousa, Portuguese historian and poet (d. 1649)   

1602  Jacques de Billy, French mathematician (d. 1679) was born on this day in history.   

0235  Death of Marcus Aurelius Alexander, Syrian emperor of Rome (222-235), murdered on this day in history.   

0978  Death of Edward, the Martyr, King of Anglo-Saxons (975-78)/st, murdered at 15 on this day in history.   

1227  On March - 18 honorius III, [Cencio Savelli], Pope (1216-27), dies   

1314  Jacques De Molay, the last grand master of Order of Knights, dies on this day in history.   

1493  John of Lannoy, Flemish governor/viceroy of Neth/Zealand, dies at 82 on March - 18.   

1582  Death of Jean Jaurequi, Basque murderer of Willem of Orange, lynched on this day in history.   

1583  On March - 18 death of king Magnus of Livonia (b. 1540)   

1584  On March - 18 ivan IV, the terrible, Russian tsar (1547-84), dies at 53