405 Historic Events for October 16
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| 1723 |
Birth |
Johann Andreas Joseph Giulini, composer
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| 1726 |
Death |
Giovanni Maria Capelli, composer, dies at 77
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| 1729 |
Birth |
Pierre van Maldere, composer
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| 1750 |
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Silvius Leopold Weiss, composer, dies at 64
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| 1757 |
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Austrian troops occupy Berlin
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| 1758 |
Birth |
Noah Webster, lexicographer (Webster's Dictionary)
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| 1765 |
Birth |
Frederic Nicolas Duvernoy, composer
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| 1774 |
Death |
Robert Fergusson, Scottish songwriter (Scottish Poems), dies
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| 1775 |
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Portland, Maine burned by British
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| 1781 |
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Washington takes Yorktown
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| 1791 |
Death |
Grigorij A Potemkin, Monarch of Tauris, dies
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| 1792 |
Birth |
Francisco Moraz n, (L) president of Central America (1830-40)
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| 1793 |
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Marie Antoinette, queen of France, beheaded in France
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| 1795 |
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M von B”hms "Oorlogscantate" premieres
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| 1799 |
Death |
Antoine-Frederic Gresnick, composer, dies at 44
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| 1806 |
Birth |
William Pitt Fessenden, Secy Treas (Union), died in 1869
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| 1811 |
Birth |
Gaetano Capocci, composer
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| 1813 |
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Battle at Leipzig (Napoleon vs Prussia, Austria and Russia)
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| 1814 |
Death |
Juan Jose Landaeta, composer, dies at 34
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| 1816 |
Birth |
William Preston, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1887
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| 1817 |
Death |
Manuel C Piar, Cura‡aos/Venezulian freedom writer, dies
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| 1821 |
Birth |
Albert Franz Doppler, composer
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| 1825 |
Birth |
Thomas Turpin Crittenden, Brig Genl (Union volunteers), died in 1905
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| 1826 |
Birth |
Piotr Studzinski, composer
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| 1827 |
Birth |
Arnold B”cklin, Switzerland, landscape/allegory painter
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