Page 2: Historical Events In October - 18

1667  On October - 18 english fleet plunders Suriname plantations   

1667  Fasilides, Emperor of Ethiopia on this day in history.   

1668  Johan Georg IV, elector of Saxony (1691-94) on October - 18.   

1669  On October - 18 abraham Willaerts, painter (Brazil), dies   

1672  Poland & Turkey sign Peace of Buczacz on this day in history.   

1676  On this day in history nathaniel Bacon, rallied against Virginian govt, killed at 29   

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  On this day in history french king Louis XIV revoked Edict van Nantes   

1697  On this day in history giovanni Canaletto, Venetian painter (Venicei Regatta on Grand Canal)   

1706  Baldassare Galuppi, Italian composer (opera's buffa) on this day in history.   

1708  Henry Van Nassau, stable master/fieldmarshal, dies at 67 on this day in history.   

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

1748  On this day in history treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle, ends War of Austrian Succession   

1752  Premiere of Rousseau's opera "Le Devin du Village" on this day in history.   

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

1771  On October - 18 robert Praelisauer, composer, dies at 62   

1774  On October - 18 adolfs Muller, writer   

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 this day in history.   

1785  On October - 18 thomas Love Peacock, English author (Headlong Hall)   

1788  On this day in history jean-Guillain Cardon, composer, dies at 56   

1789  Giovanni Tadolini, composer on this day in history.   

1794  Ferdinand Lukas Schubert, composer on October - 18.   

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

1806  On October - 18 john Breckinridge Grayson, Brig Genl (Confederate Army), died in 1861   

1811  Hugh Thompson Reid, Brig General (Union volunteers), died in 1874 on October - 18.   

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  On this day in history peter I Petrovic Njegos, bishop (Montenegro), dies   

1831  On this day in history frederik III NK of Hohenzollern, German Kaiser/king of Prussia   

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1127  Emperor Go-Shirakawa of Japan (d. 1192) was born on October - 18.   

1239  Stefanus V, prince of Transylvania/king of Hungary (1270-72) was born on October - 18.   

1405  Pius II, [Aenea S Piccolomini], Italian pope (1458-64) (Cynthia) was born on this day in history.   

1517  On this day in history birth of manoel da Nóbrega, Portuguese Jesuit in Brazil (d. 1570)   

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

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  On October - 18 birth of valentin Strobel, composer   

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

1035  Death of Sancho III of Navarre on October - 18.   

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  John, king of England (1199-1216, Magna Charta), dies on October - 18.   

1340  On October - 18 henry Henricus of Friemar, Augustine philosopher, dies   

1382  Death of James Butler, 2nd Earl of Ormonde (b. 1331) on October - 18.   

1417  On this day in history gregorius XII, [Angelo Correr], Pope (1406-15), dies