394 Historic Events for October 4
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| 1675 |
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Christian Huygens patents pocket watch
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| 1712 |
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Utrecht banishes poor Jews
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| 1713 |
Death |
Valentin Molitor, composer, dies at 76
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| 1720 |
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Giovanni Battista Piranesi, Italian etcher
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| 1721 |
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Abraham Alewijn, poet/playwright (Beslikte Swaantje), dies at 36
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| 1743 |
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John Campbell, 2nd duke of Argyll/fieldmarshal, dies at 64
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| 1744 |
Birth |
Domenico Corri, composer
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| 1749 |
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Jean-Louis Duport, composer
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| 1755 |
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Samuel von Cocceji, German lawyer, dies
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| 1762 |
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Tommaso Sogner, composer
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| 1767 |
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Prince Willem V marries Prussian princess Wilhelmina
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| 1772 |
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Fran‡ois-Louis Perne, composer
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| 1777 |
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Battle of Germantown
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| 1777 |
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Gen George Washington's troops attacked British at Germantown Pa
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| 1787 |
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Fran‡ois P G Guizot, French historian/politician
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| 1796 |
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John Richardson, Canadian writer (Wacousta, or the prophecy)
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| 1797 |
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J Gotthelf, writer
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| 1804 |
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"Felix", cricketer (Nicholas Wanostracht)
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| 1809 |
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Robert Cumming Schenck, Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1890
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| 1809 |
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Albrecht F H, prince of Prussia
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| 1810 |
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Alexander Walewski, French earl/foreign minister/Napoleon I's son
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| 1816 |
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Egbert Benson Brown, Brig General (Union volunteers), died in 1902
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| 1818 |
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Francesco Crispi, Italian minister of War/premier
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| 1822 |
Birth |
Rutherford Birchard Hayes, Delaware Ohio, (R) 19th pres (1877-81)
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| 1824 |
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Mexico becomes a republic
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