418 Historic Events for February 18
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| 1688 |
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Quakers conduct 1st formal protest of slavery in Germantown, Pa
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| 1712 |
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Duke of Bourgondi‰, French king Louis XIV's grandson, dies
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| 1713 |
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French invade under Jacques Cassard on Cura‡ao
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| 1716 |
Birth |
Gaspard Fritz, composer
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| 1735 |
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1st opera performed in America, "Flora," in Charleston, SC
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| 1743 |
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Count Alessandro Volta, Como Italy, physicist
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| 1745 |
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Bonnie Prince Charlies troops occupy Inverness Scotland
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| 1745 |
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Nicola Fago, composer, dies at 67
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| 1745 |
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Alessandro Giuseppe Antonio Anastasio Volta, inventor (battery)
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| 1751 |
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Karl Haack, composer
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| 1770 |
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Johann Christian Heinrich Rinck, composer
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| 1771 |
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Friedrich Christian Ruppe, composer
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| 1775 |
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Thomas Girtin, London, artist/watercolorist
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| 1776 |
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John Parry, composer
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| 1781 |
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Henry Martyn, Truro, missionary
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| 1787 |
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Austrian emperor Jozef II bans children under 8 from labor
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| 1790 |
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Wilhelm Gottfried Enderle, composer, dies at 67
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| 1790 |
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Marshall Hall, Basford Nottinghamshire, physician
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| 1795 |
Birth |
George Peabody, South Danvers Mass, merchant/philanthropist
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| 1799 |
Death |
Maurus Haberhauer, composer, dies at 52
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| 1803 |
Death |
J W L Gleim, writer, dies
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| 1804 |
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1st US land-grant college, Ohio University, Athens Ohio, chartered
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| 1805 |
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Louis Malesherbes Goldsborough, Rear Admiral (Union Navy)
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| 1807 |
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S von Laroche, writer, dies at 75
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| 1807 |
Death |
August G Meissner, German estheticus/literary, dies at 53
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