📅 Today in HistoryFebruary 18

Kali Yuga, the fourth and final yuga of Hinduism, starts with the death of Krishna.

The Sixth Crusade: Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor, signs a ten-year truce with al-Kamil, regaining Jerusalem, Nazareth, and Bethlehem with neither military engagements nor support from the papacy.

The Battle of Wesenberg is fought between the Livonian Order and Dovmont of Pskov.

Amda Seyon I, Emperor of Ethiopia begins his campaigns in the southern Muslim provinces.

George, Duke of Clarence, convicted of treason against his older brother Edward IV of England, is executed in private at the Tower of London.

Eighty Years' War: Off the coast of Cornwall, England, a Spanish fleet intercepts an important Anglo-Dutch merchant convoy of 44 vessels escorted by six warships, destroying or capturing 20 of them.

The ballad opera called Flora, or Hob in the Well went down in history as the first opera of any kind to be produced in North America (Charleston, S.C.)

Fourth Anglo-Dutch War: Captain Thomas Shirley opens his expedition against Dutch colonial outposts on the Gold Coast of Africa (present-day Ghana).

Congress passes a law admitting the state of Vermont to the Union, effective 4 March, after that state had existed for 14 years as a de facto independent largely unrecognized state.

French Revolutionary Wars: Sir Ralph Abercromby and a fleet of 18 British warships invade Trinidad.