WHAT HAPPENED ON 18. NOVEMBER
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The old St. Peter's Basilica is consecrated. (18. November 326)

The Visigoths, led by king Alaric I, cross the Alps and invade northern Italy. (18. November 401)

Maginulfo is elected the Antipope as Sylvester IV. (18. November 1105)

Phillip II becomes king of France. (18. November 1180)

Pope Innocent III excommunicates Holy Roman Emperor Otto IV. (18. November 1210)

Pope Boniface VIII issues the Papal bull Unam sanctam (One Faith). (18. November 1302)

William Tell shoots an apple off his son's head. (18. November 1307)

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 Sint-Elisabethsvloed. (18. November 1421)

Christopher Columbus first sights the island now known as Puerto Rico. (18. November 1493)

French King Charles VIII occupies Florence, Italy. (18. November 1494)

Tiryaki Hasan Pasha, provincial governor of Ottoman Empire, utterly defeats Habsburg forces, commanded by Ferdinand the Archduke of Austria during the Siege of Nagykanizsa. (18. November 1601)

St. Peter's Basilica is consecrated. (18. November 1626)

Charles Francois Felix operates on King Louis XIV of France's anal fistula after practicing the surgery on several peasants. (18. November 1686)

The future Frederick II (known as Frederick the Great), King of Prussia, is granted a royal pardon and released from confinement. (18. November 1730)

The Battle of Vertières, the last major battle of the Haitian Revolution, is fought, leading to the establishment of the Republic of Haiti, the first black republic in the Western Hemisphere. (18. November 1803)

In a naval action during the Napoleonic Wars, French frigates defeat British East Indiamen in the Bay of Bengal. (18. November 1809)

Napoleonic Wars: The Battle of Krasnoi ends in French defeat, but Marshal of France Michel Ney's leadership leads to him becoming known as "the bravest of the brave". (18. November 1812)

King Christian IX of Denmark signs the November constitution that declares Schleswig to be part of Denmark. This is seen by the German Confederation as a violation of the London Protocol and leads to the German–Danish war of 1864. (18. November 1863)

Mark Twain's short story The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County is published in the New York Saturday Press. (18. November 1865)

American and Canadian railroads institute five standard continental time zones, ending the confusion of thousands of local times. (18. November 1883)