What is February 18?
{{calendar}} {{day}} ==Events== === Up to 1900 === * [[1229]] &ndash; [[Sixth Crusade]]: [[Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor]] signs a ten–year truce with al–Kamil, regaining [[Jerusalem]], [[Nazareth]] and [[Bethlehem]], with neither [[military]] engagement nor support from the [[Pope]]. * [[1268]] &ndash; The [[Livonian Brothers of the Sword]] are defeated by Dovmont of [[Pskov]] in the [[Battle of Rakvere]]. * [[1332]] &ndash; [[Amda Seyon I of Ethiopia|Amda Seyon I]] of [[Ethiopia]] begins his campaigns in the southern [[Islam|Muslim]] [[province]]s. * [[1478]] &ndash; [[George Plantagenet, 1st Duke of Clarence]] is executed in the [[Tower of London]] after being convicted of [[treason]] against his older brother, King [[Edward IV of England]]. * [[1637]] &ndash; [[Eighty Years' War]]: Off [[Cornwall]], a Spanish [[Naval fleet|fleet]] intercepts a very important [[England|Anglo]]–[[Netherlands|Dutch]] merchant convoy of 44 [[vessel]]s escorted by 6 warships, destroying or capturing 20 of them. * [[1745]] &ndash; [[Surakarta]], [[Central Java]], is founded. * [[1766]] &ndash; A [[mutiny]] by captive [[Madagascar|Malagasy]] begins at [[sea]] on the [[slave ship]] ''Meermin'', leading to the ship's destruction on [[Cape Agulhas]] in present–day [[South Africa]] and recapture of the instigators. * [[1791]] &ndash; [[United States Congress]] passes a law making [[Vermont]] a state from [[March 4]]. * [[1814]] &ndash; [[Napoleonic Wars]]: [[Battle of Montereau]]. * [[1861]] &ndash; [[Victor Emmanuel II of Savoy]] assumes the title of [[King]] of [[Italy]]. * [[1861]] &ndash; In [[Montgomery, Alabama]], [[Jefferson Davis]] is inaugurated as provisional [[President]] of the [[Confederate States of America]]. * [[1865]] &ndash; [[American Civil War]]: Union forces under General [[William Tecumseh Sherman]] set the [[South Carolina]] State House on [[fire]] during the burning of [[Columbia, South Carolina]]. * [[1873]] &ndash; [[Bulgaria]]n revolutionary [[Vasil Levski]] is executed by hanging in [[Sofia]] by the [[Ott