18 November 1497 : Vasco da Gama reached the Cape of Good Hope
18 November 1494 : French King Charles VIII occupies Florence
18 November 1477 : 1st English printed book "Dictes & Sayengis of the Phylosophers"
18 November 1424 : Storm flood ravages Dutch coast
18 November 1421 : Holland / Zealand dikes break in storm, 1000s killed
18 November 1421 : Southern sea floods 72 villages, killing est 10,000 in the Netherlands
18 November 1210 : Pope Innocent III excommunicates Roman Catholic Emperor Otto IV
18 November 1105 : Maginulf elected anti-Pope Silvester I
18 November 0794 : Japanese Emperor Kammu deallocates residence of Nara to Kioto