What happened on 18 February?

11 events from the Ever-When timeline, ranked by how much they mattered.

1. 1516 Born: Mary I of England Catholic queen who tried to reverse the English Reformation; called "Bloody Mary".
2. 1946 Royal Indian Navy mutiny Mutiny across British Indian naval bases against British rule.
3. 1952 Turkey joins NATO Turkey becomes a NATO member, anchoring it to the Western bloc and the south-eastern flank of the Cold War.
4. 1931 Born: Toni Morrison American novelist; first African-American woman Nobel literature laureate.
5. 1930 Pluto discovered Clyde Tombaugh finds Pluto, hailed for 76 years as the ninth planet before its 2006 reclassification.
6. 1856 Hatt-ı Hümâyûn decree Ottoman reform proclamation guaranteeing equality regardless of religion.
7. 1946 The Royal Indian Navy mutinies Ratings in Bombay strike over pay and racial abuse, and within days 20,000 sailors on 78 ships have raised Congress and League flags together, with crowds in the streets beside the
8. 1405 Death of Timur The conqueror dies on the march to invade China; his vast Central Asian empire fragments but seeds the Timurid Renaissance and the Mughals.
9. 1478 Clarence drowned in a butt of malmsey George, Duke of Clarence — brother to the king, serial traitor, forgiven once too often — is privately executed in the Tower, by long-standing report drowned in a barrel of sweet w
10. 1678 Bunyan's The Pilgrim's Progress Christian allegory; one of the most widely read English-language books ever published.
11. 1897 Kingdom of Benin ends Conventional end of Kingdom of Benin.