384 Historic Events for November 18
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| 1745 |
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Bonnie Prince Charlies troops occupy Carlisle
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| 1755 |
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Worst quake in Mass Bay area strikes Boston; no deaths report
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| 1771 |
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Giuseppe de Majo, composer, dies at 73
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| 1772 |
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Louis Ferdinand, Prince of Prussia Christian, composer
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| 1776 |
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Hessians capture Ft Lee, NJ
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| 1781 |
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Felice Blangini, composer
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| 1786 |
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Karl Maria Friedrich Ernst "von" Weber, German composer (Freischtz)
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| 1786 |
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Henry Rowley Bishop, British composer/conductor
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| 1787 |
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Louis-Jacques-Mand‚ Daguerre, French painter (daguerreotype)
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| 1787 |
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Sojourner Truth, abolitionist/feminist
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| 1787 |
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1st Unitarian minister in US ordained, Boston
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| 1793 |
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Louvre officially opens in Paris
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| 1796 |
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Catharina II, "The Great", tsarina of Russia (1762-96), dies at 67
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| 1803 |
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Cornelius Broere, Dutch priest/poet
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| 1803 |
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Battle of Vertieres, in which Haitians defeat French
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| 1804 |
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Palver Purim 1st celebrated to commemorate miraculous escape
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| 1805 |
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30 women meet at Mrs Silas Lee's home in Wiscasset Maine, organizes
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| 1805 |
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Female Charitable Society, first woman's club in America
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| 1805 |
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Lewis and Clark reach Pacific Ocean, 1st Americans to cross continent
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| 1808 |
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Antoine-Amable-Elie Elwart, composer
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| 1810 |
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Asa Gray, Sauquoit NY, botanist (Flora of North America)
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| 1810 |
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Benjamin Stone Roberts, Bvt Mjr Gen (Union volunteers), died in 1875
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| 1812 |
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Jesse Johnson Finley, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1904
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| 1820 |
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Antarctica discovered by US Navy Capt Nathaniel B Palmer
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| 1822 |
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George Knowil Jackson, composer, dies at 65
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