401 Historic Events for March 18
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| 1657 |
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Giuseppe Ottavio Pitoni, Italian composer
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| 1673 |
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Lord Berkley sells his half of New Jersey to the Quakers
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| 1690 |
Death |
Charles, duke of Lutherans, dies
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| 1690 |
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Christian Goldbach, German mathematician (Goldbach position)
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| 1734 |
Birth |
Joseph Schmitt, composer
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| 1745 |
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Robert Walpole, 1st English premier (1722-42), dies at 68 [NS=3/29]
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| 1754 |
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Duke of Newcastle becomes English premier
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| 1756 |
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Johann Christoph Vogel, composer
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| 1765 |
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David H Chass‚, Dutch baron/general (fought Napoleon at Waterloo)
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| 1766 |
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Britain repeals the Stamp Act
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| 1768 |
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Lawrence Sterne, writer (Sentimental Journey France and Italy), dies
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| 1773 |
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Oliver Goldsmith' "She Stoops to Conquer," premieres in London
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| 1781 |
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Gustave Vogt, composer
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| 1782 |
Birth |
John Caldwell Calhoun, SC, Andrew Jackson's VP (1825-32)
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| 1793 |
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2nd Battle at Neerwinden: Austria army beats France
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| 1799 |
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John Randall, composer, dies at 82
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| 1809 |
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Gabriel de la Concepci¢n Vald‚s, [Placido], Cuban poet
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| 1810 |
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"Converse," 1st US opera, premieres in NY
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| 1813 |
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Friedrich Hebbel, writer
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| 1813 |
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David Melville, Newport, RI, patents apparatus for making coal gas
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| 1816 |
Death |
Johann Paul Schulthesius, composer, dies at 67
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| 1817 |
Death |
Johann Jakob Walder, composer, dies at 67
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| 1818 |
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Congress approves 1st pensions for government service
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| 1823 |
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Jean-Baptiste Sebastien Breval, composer, dies at 69
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| 1829 |
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William Robertson Boggs, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1911
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