384 Historic Events for November 18
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| 794 |
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Japanese emperor Kammu deallocates residence of Nara to Kioto
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| 942 |
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Odo van Cluny, 2nd abbott of Cluny (924-42), dies
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| 1105 |
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Maginulf elected anti-Pope Silvester I
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| 1170 |
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Albrecht I "Bear", 1st margrave of Brandenburg (1150-70), dies at 70
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| 1210 |
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Pope Innocent III excommunicates Roman Catholic Emperor Otto IV
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| 1307 |
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William Tell shoots apple off his son's head
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| 1421 |
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Holland/Zealand dikes break in storm, 1000s killed
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| 1421 |
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Southern sea floods 72 villages, killing est 10,000 in Netherlands
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| 1424 |
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Storm flood ravages Dutch coast
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| 1477 |
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1st English printed book "Dictes and Sayengis of the Phylosophers"
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| 1494 |
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French king Charles VIII occupies Florence
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| 1497 |
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Vasco da Gama reached the Cape of Good Hope
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| 1527 |
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Luca Cambiaso, Italian painter/sculptor
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| 1603 |
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Elisabeth van Nassau, daughter of Juliana, dies at 61
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| 1626 |
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St-Petruskerk in Rome, initiated
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| 1630 |
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Esaias van der Velde, Dutch painter, buried
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| 1664 |
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Mikl¢s Zr¡nyi, Hungarian general/poet, killed by wild boar at 44
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| 1667 |
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Treaty of Bongaja: King Hassan-Udin of Makasar and VOC
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| 1678 |
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Giovanni Maria Bononcini, composer, dies at 36
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| 1680 |
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Jean-Baptiste Loeillet, composer
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| 1718 |
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Voltaires "Oedip‚," premieres in Paris
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| 1736 |
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Carl Friedrich Christian Fasch, composer
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| 1738 |
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France and Austria sign peace
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| 1742 |
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Felix Maximo Lopez, composer
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| 1742 |
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Prussia and England sign anti-French military covenant
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