361 Historic Events for October 17
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| 1720 |
Birth |
Maria Teresa Agnesi, composer
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| 1720 |
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Pierre de Marivaux' "Arlequin Poli Par l'Amour," premieres in Paris
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| 1725 |
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John Wilkes, English journalist/MP (N Briton)
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| 1729 |
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Pierre-Alexandre Monsigny, composer
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| 1730 |
Birth |
Ernestus Weinrauch, composer
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| 1734 |
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Grigori G Orlov, Russ guard officer/favorite of Catharina II
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| 1740 |
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Ivan VI becomes Czar of Russia
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| 1740 |
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Anna Ivanova Romanova, empress of Russia (1730-40), dies at 47
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| 1763 |
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Arnold Hoogvliet, poet (Abraham the patriarch), dies at 76
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| 1777 |
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British General John Burgoyne surrenders at Saratoga NY
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| 1781 |
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Cornwallis defeated at Yorktown
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| 1787 |
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Boston blacks, petition legislature for equal school facilities
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| 1797 |
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Peace of Campo Formio: Austrian Dutch possessions and France
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| 1800 |
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Dutch colony Cura‡ao transfered to England
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| 1806 |
Death |
Jean Jacques Dessalines, Emperor of Haiti, dies
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| 1806 |
Birth |
Alphonse LPP de Candolle, Swiss botanist
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| 1808 |
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Political rights of Jews suspended in Duchy of Warsaw
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| 1811 |
Birth |
Albertus C van Raalte, Dutch/US vicar (owned land in Mich)
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| 1813 |
Birth |
Georg Bchner, German playwright (Dantons Tod/Woyzeck)
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| 1815 |
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Napoleon arrives in St Helena
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| 1815 |
Birth |
Emanuel Geibel, writer
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| 1817 |
Birth |
Sajjid Ahmad Chan, Indian moslem leader/co-founder (Pakistan)
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| 1817 |
Birth |
Samuel Ringgold Ward, Maryland, minister/abolitionist (Fugitive Negro)
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| 1825 |
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1st French Liszts operette Don Sanche premieres in Paris
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| 1825 |
Death |
Peter Winter, composer, dies at 71
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