Pius VI, [Giovanni A Braschi], Italy, Pope (1775-99)

Birth

Floods ravage Dutch coast provinces, 1000s killed

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William Collins, Chichester England, (Mayor-Chichester)/poet

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Johann Adam Hiller, composer

Birth

Astronomer Anders Celcius introduces Centigrade temperature scale

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Treaty of Dresden gives much of Silesia to the Prussians

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Prussia/Austria signs Treaty of Dresden

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John "Christmas" Beckwith, composer

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Mithra

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Halley's comet 1st sighted by Johann Georg Palitzsch during return

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Juptier Hammon, NY slave, publishes poetry in "An Evening Throught"

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Elisabeth Petrovna, tsarina of Russia (1741-62), dies at about 51

Death

Claude Chappe, French engineer (optical telegraph)

Birth

Antonio Tonelli, composer, dies at 79

Death

Joseph Mazzinghi, composer

Birth

Dorothy Wordsworth

Birth

Antun Sorkocevic, composer

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Pope Pius VI encyclical on the problems of the pontificate

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Washington crosses Delaware and surprises and defeats 1,400 Hessians

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John Logan, Scottish conductor (Ode to the Cuckoo), dies at about 40

Death

Stephen Cleeg Rowan, Commander (Union Navy), died in 1890

Birth

Wilhelm E Freiherr von Ketteler, German politician/bishop of Mainz

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Milledge Luke Bonham, (Confederacy) died in 1890

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Jan de Liefde II, Dutch vicar/founder (Coop of Welfare of the People)

Birth

Temistocle Solera, composer

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