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The Council of Clermont begins: called by Pope Urban II, it led to the First Crusade to the Holy Land.
Year 1302
Pope Boniface VIII issues the Papal bull Unam sanctam, claiming spiritual supremacy for the papacy.
Year 1421
A seawall at the Zuiderzee dike in the Netherlands breaks, flooding 72 villages and killing about 10,000 people. This event will be known as St Elizabeth's flood.
Public Holidays Around The World On This Day 4
Birthdays on 18 November 203
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Itzam K'an Ahk II
b. 701 – d. 757
Itzam K'an Ahk II, Mayan ruler (d. 757)
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Emperor Kōnin
b. 709 – d. 782
Emperor Kōnin of Japan (d. 782)
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Lamoral, Count of Egmont
b. 1522 – d. 1568
Lamoral, Count of Egmont (d. 1568)
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Hippolytus Guarinonius
b. 1571 – d. 1654
Hippolytus Guarinonius, Italian physician and polymath (d. 1654)
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Philipp Ludwig II, Count of Hanau-Münzenberg
b. 1576 – d. 1612
Philipp Ludwig II, Count of Hanau-Münzenberg (d. 1612)
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Eleonora Gonzaga (1630-1686)
b. 1630 – d. 1686
Eleonora Gonzaga, Queen consort of Ferdinand III (b. 1630)
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Pierre Bayle
b. 1647 – d. 1706
Pierre Bayle, French philosopher and author (b. 1647)
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Philibert Commerson
b. 1727 – d. 1773
Philibert Commerson, French physician and explorer (d. 1773)
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Carl Friedrich Christian Fasch
b. 1736 – d. 1800
Carl Friedrich Christian Fasch, German harpsichord player and composer (d. 1800)
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Thomas Burgess (bishop)
b. 1756 – d. 1837
Thomas Burgess, English bishop and philosopher (d. 1837)
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Prince Louis Ferdinand of Prussia (1772-1806)
b. 1772 – d. 1806
Prince Louis Ferdinand of Prussia (d. 1806)
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Wilhelmine of Prussia, Queen of the Netherlands
b. 1774 – d. 1837
Wilhelmine of Prussia, Queen of the Netherlands (d. 1837)
Deaths on 18 November 79
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Odo of Cluny
d. 942
Odo of Cluny, Frankish abbot and saint (b. c. 878)
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Liutgard of Saxony (died 953)
d. 953 (b. 931)
Liutgard of Saxony, duchess of Lorraine (b. 931)
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Thomas of Bayeux
d. 1100
Thomas of Bayeux, archbishop of York
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Adelaide of Maurienne
d. 1154 (b. 1092)
Adelaide of Maurienne, French queen consort (b. 1092)
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Albert the Bear
d. 1170
Albert the Bear, margrave of Brandenburg (b. c. 1100)
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Robin Hood
d. 1247 (b. 1160)
Robin Hood, heroic outlaw in English folklore (b. 1160)
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Adam Marsh
d. 1259
Adam Marsh, English scholar and theologian
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John II, Duke of Brittany
d. 1305 (b. 1239)
John II, duke of Brittany (b. 1239)
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Constance of Portugal
d. 1313 (b. 1290)
Constance of Portugal, Portuguese infanta (b. 1290)
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Roger Bolingbroke
d. 1441
Roger Bolingbroke, English cleric, astronomer, astrologer, magister and alleged necromancer
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Basilius Bessarion
d. 1472
Basilius Bessarion, titular patriarch of Constantinople (b. c. 1403)
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Gedik Ahmed Pasha
d. 1482
Gedik Ahmed Pasha, Ottoman politician, 17th Grand Vizier of the Ottoman Empire