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11/18/0794
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Japanese emperor Kammu deallocates residence of Nara to Kioto
Type: Event
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11/18/0942
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Odo van Cluny, 2nd abbott of Cluny (924-42), dies
Type: Death
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11/18/1105
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Maginulf elected anti-Pope Silvester I
Type: Event
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11/18/1170
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Albrecht I "Bear", 1st margrave of Brandenburg (1150-70), dies at 70
Type: Death
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11/18/1210
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Pope Innocent III excommunicates Roman Catholic Emperor Otto IV
Type: Event
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11/18/1307
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William Tell shoots apple off his son's head
Type: Event
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11/18/1421
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Holland/Zealand dikes break in storm, 1000s killed
Type: Event
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11/18/1421
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Southern sea floods 72 villages, killing est 10,000 in Netherlands
Type: Event
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11/18/1424
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Storm flood ravages Dutch coast
Type: Event
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11/18/1477
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1st English printed book "Dictes and Sayengis of the Phylosophers"
Type: Event
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11/18/1494
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French king Charles VIII occupies Florence
Type: Event
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11/18/1497
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Vasco da Gama reached the Cape of Good Hope
Type: Event
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11/18/1527
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Luca Cambiaso, Italian painter/sculptor
Type: Birth
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11/18/1603
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Elisabeth van Nassau, daughter of Juliana, dies at 61
Type: Death
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11/18/1626
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St-Petruskerk in Rome, initiated
Type: Event
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11/18/1630
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Esaias van der Velde, Dutch painter, buried
Type: Death
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11/18/1664
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Mikl˘s ZrĄnyi, Hungarian general/poet, killed by wild boar at 44
Type: Death
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11/18/1667
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Treaty of Bongaja: King Hassan-Udin of Makasar and VOC
Type: Event
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11/18/1678
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Giovanni Maria Bononcini, composer, dies at 36
Type: Death
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11/18/1680
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Jean-Baptiste Loeillet, composer
Type: Birth
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11/18/1718
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Voltaires "Oedip," premieres in Paris
Type: Event
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11/18/1736
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Carl Friedrich Christian Fasch, composer
Type: Birth
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11/18/1738
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France and Austria sign peace
Type: Event
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11/18/1742
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Felix Maximo Lopez, composer
Type: Birth
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11/18/1742
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Prussia and England sign anti-French military covenant
Type: Event
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11/18/1745
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Bonnie Prince Charlies troops occupy Carlisle
Type: Event
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11/18/1755
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Worst quake in Mass Bay area strikes Boston; no deaths report
Type: Event
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11/18/1771
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Giuseppe de Majo, composer, dies at 73
Type: Death
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11/18/1772
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Louis Ferdinand, Prince of Prussia Christian, composer
Type: Birth
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11/18/1776
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Hessians capture Ft Lee, NJ
Type: Event
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11/18/1781
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Felice Blangini, composer
Type: Birth
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11/18/1786
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Karl Maria Friedrich Ernst "von" Weber, German composer (Freischtz)
Type: Birth
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11/18/1786
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Henry Rowley Bishop, British composer/conductor
Type: Birth
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11/18/1787
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Louis-Jacques-Mand Daguerre, French painter (daguerreotype)
Type: Birth
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11/18/1787
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Sojourner Truth, abolitionist/feminist
Type: Birth
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11/18/1787
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1st Unitarian minister in US ordained, Boston
Type: Event
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11/18/1793
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Louvre officially opens in Paris
Type: Event
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11/18/1796
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Catharina II, "The Great", tsarina of Russia (1762-96), dies at 67
Type: Death
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11/18/1803
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Cornelius Broere, Dutch priest/poet
Type: Birth
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11/18/1803
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Battle of Vertieres, in which Haitians defeat French
Type: Event
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11/18/1804
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Palver Purim 1st celebrated to commemorate miraculous escape
Type: Event
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11/18/1805
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30 women meet at Mrs Silas Lee's home in Wiscasset Maine, organizes
Type: Event
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11/18/1805
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Female Charitable Society, first woman's club in America
Type: Event
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11/18/1805
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Lewis and Clark reach Pacific Ocean, 1st Americans to cross continent
Type: Event
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11/18/1808
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Antoine-Amable-Elie Elwart, composer
Type: Birth
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11/18/1810
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Asa Gray, Sauquoit NY, botanist (Flora of North America)
Type: Birth
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11/18/1810
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Benjamin Stone Roberts, Bvt Mjr Gen (Union volunteers), died in 1875
Type: Birth
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11/18/1812
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Jesse Johnson Finley, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1904
Type: Birth
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11/18/1820
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Antarctica discovered by US Navy Capt Nathaniel B Palmer
Type: Event
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11/18/1822
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George Knowil Jackson, composer, dies at 65
Type: Death
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