354 Historic Events for November 16
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| 1715 |
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Girolamo Abos, composer
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| 1717 |
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Jean-Baptiste Le Rond d'Alembert, French philosopher/mathematician
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| 1720 |
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Carlo Antonio Campioni, composer
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| 1724 |
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Jack Sheppard, English robber, hanged
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| 1730 |
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Gualtherius "Wouter" van Doeveren, Zealand-Flanders physician
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| 1757 |
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Daniel Read, composer
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| 1762 |
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Petronella Moens, Frisian author/poetess
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| 1763 |
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English journalist John Wilkes injured at duel
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| 1764 |
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Native Americans surrender to British in Indian War of Chief Pontiac
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| 1766 |
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Rodolphe Kreitzer, France, composer/virtuoso violinist (Paris Conserv)
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| 1766 |
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Dominikus Zimmermann, German architect/painter, dies at 81
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| 1771 |
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West Indian Company and Amsterdam divide up Suriname
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| 1775 |
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Marian Paradeiser, composer, dies at 28
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| 1776 |
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1st gun salute - for US Andrea Doria at Ft St Eustatius
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| 1776 |
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British troops captured Fort Washington during American Revolution
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| 1780 |
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Robert Archibald Smith, composer
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| 1793 |
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Francis Danby, Irish painter
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| 1797 |
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Frederik Willem II, king of Prussia (1786-97), dies at 53
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| 1798 |
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Kentucky becomes 1st state to nullify an act of Congress
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| 1801 |
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1st edition of New York Evening Post
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| 1805 |
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Battle at Sch”ngrabern: Russian army stop French
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| 1807 |
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Fran‡ois Hainl, composer
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| 1808 |
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Mustapha IV, sultan of Turkey (1807-08), dies at 29
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| 1810 |
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Friedrich Wilhelm Kucken, composer
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| 1811 |
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Earthquake in Missouri caused the Mississippi River to flow backwards
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