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02/18/0999
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Gregory V, [Bruno] 1st German Pope, dies
Type: Death
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02/18/1129
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Jerusalem taken by Emperor Frederik II
Type: Event
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02/18/1217
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Alexander Neckum de Sancto Albano, Engl encyclopedist, dies at 59
Type: Death
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02/18/1397
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Enguerrand VII, French master of Coucy/count of Soissons, dies at 56
Type: Death
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02/18/1404
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Leon B Alberti, Italian humanist/architect (Della Pittura)
Type: Birth
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02/18/1455
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Fra Angelico, Italian monk/painter, dies
Type: Death
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02/18/1478
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Duke of Clarence, forced drowning in a wine barrel
Type: Death
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02/18/1503
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Henry Tudor created Prince of Wales (later Henry VIII)
Type: Event
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02/18/1516
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Mary I Tudor, [Bloody Mary], Greenwich, queen of England (1553-58)
Type: Birth
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02/18/1535
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Agrippa von Nettesheim, German royal astrologer, dies at 48
Type: Death
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02/18/1535
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Cornelius Agrippa von Nettesheim, physician/theologian, dies
Type: Death
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02/18/1536
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France and Turkey sign milt/trade agreement against King Karel
Type: Event
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02/18/1546
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Martin Luther, biblical scholar/religious reformer, dies at 62
Type: Death
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02/18/1559
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Isaac Casaubon, naturalized English classical scholar, theologian
Type: Birth
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02/18/1563
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Huguenot Jean Poltrot de M‚r‚ shoots gen Fran‡ois De Guise
Type: Event
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02/18/1564
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Michelangelo Buonarroti, Italian sculptor/painter (David), dies at 88
Type: Death
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02/18/1574
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Zeeland falls to Dutch rebels
Type: Event
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02/18/1587
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Mary Stuart, Queen of Scots (1560-87), beheaded at 44 [OS=Feb 8]
Type: Death
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02/18/1609
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Edward Hyde, Earl of Clarendon, English PM (1660-67)
Type: Birth
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02/18/1632
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Giovanni Battista Vitali, composer
Type: Birth
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02/18/1634
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Ferdinand II orders commander Albrecht von Wallenstein, execution
Type: Event
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02/18/1660
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Judith Jansdochter Leyster, Dutch painter, buried
Type: Death
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02/18/1677
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Jacques Cassini, French astronomer (rings of Saturn)
Type: Birth
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02/18/1678
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John Bunyan's "Pilgrim's Progress" is published
Type: Event
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02/18/1683
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Nicolaes Pietersz Berchem, Dutch landscape painter/etcher, dies at 62
Type: Death
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02/18/1688
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Quakers conduct 1st formal protest of slavery in Germantown, Pa
Type: Event
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02/18/1712
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Duke of Bourgondi‰, French king Louis XIV's grandson, dies
Type: Death
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02/18/1713
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French invade under Jacques Cassard on Cura‡ao
Type: Event
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02/18/1716
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Gaspard Fritz, composer
Type: Birth
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02/18/1735
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1st opera performed in America, "Flora," in Charleston, SC
Type: Event
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02/18/1743
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Count Alessandro Volta, Como Italy, physicist
Type: Birth
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02/18/1745
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Bonnie Prince Charlies troops occupy Inverness Scotland
Type: Event
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02/18/1745
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Alessandro Giuseppe Antonio Anastasio Volta, inventor (battery)
Type: Birth
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02/18/1745
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Nicola Fago, composer, dies at 67
Type: Death
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02/18/1751
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Karl Haack, composer
Type: Birth
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02/18/1770
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Johann Christian Heinrich Rinck, composer
Type: Birth
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02/18/1771
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Friedrich Christian Ruppe, composer
Type: Birth
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02/18/1775
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Thomas Girtin, London, artist/watercolorist
Type: Birth
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02/18/1776
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John Parry, composer
Type: Birth
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02/18/1781
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Henry Martyn, Truro, missionary
Type: Birth
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02/18/1787
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Austrian emperor Jozef II bans children under 8 from labor
Type: Event
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02/18/1790
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Marshall Hall, Basford Nottinghamshire, physician
Type: Birth
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02/18/1790
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Wilhelm Gottfried Enderle, composer, dies at 67
Type: Death
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02/18/1795
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George Peabody, South Danvers Mass, merchant/philanthropist
Type: Birth
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02/18/1799
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Maurus Haberhauer, composer, dies at 52
Type: Death
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02/18/1803
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J W L Gleim, writer, dies
Type: Death
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02/18/1804
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1st US land-grant college, Ohio University, Athens Ohio, chartered
Type: Event
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02/18/1805
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Louis Malesherbes Goldsborough, Rear Admiral (Union Navy)
Type: Birth
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02/18/1807
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August G Meissner, German estheticus/literary, dies at 53
Type: Death
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02/18/1807
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S von Laroche, writer, dies at 75
Type: Death
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