408 Historic Events for January 11
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| 1750 |
Birth |
Johann Jakob Walder, composer
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| 1753 |
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Ferdinand VI of Spain and Pope Benedictus XIV sign concord
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| 1753 |
Death |
Hans Sloane, English physician (British Museum), dies at 92
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| 1757 |
Birth |
Alexander Hamilton, West Indies, 1st US Sec of Treasury ($10 face)
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| 1758 |
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Russian troops occupy K”nigsberg, East-Prussia [NS=Jan 22]
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| 1759 |
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1st American life insurance company incorporated, Philadelphia
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| 1765 |
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Frisia bans Voltaires "Trait‚ sur la tol‚rance"
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| 1771 |
Death |
Jean-Baptiste de Boyer, marquis d'Argens, French author, dies at 66
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| 1774 |
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Messier adds M51 (spiral galaxy in Canes Venatici) to his catalog
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| 1775 |
Death |
Yemelyan Pugachov, Don Cossack rebel, executed by tsarist Russia
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| 1775 |
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Francis Salvador becomes 1st Jew elected to office in America (SC)
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| 1784 |
Death |
Ferdinand Philipp Joseph Lobkowitz, composer, dies at 59
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| 1785 |
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Continental Congress convenes in NYC
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| 1787 |
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Titania and Oberon, moons of Uranus, discovered by William Herschel
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| 1790 |
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Statisten and Vonckisten unite as Belgium
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| 1797 |
Death |
Francis Lightfoot Lee, US farmer (singer Decl of Independ), dies at 62
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| 1801 |
Death |
Domenico Cimarosa, Italian composer (Matrimonio segreto), dies at 51
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| 1801 |
Birth |
John Lodge Ellerton, composer
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| 1803 |
Event |
Monroe and Livingston sail for Paris to buy New Orleans; they buy La
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| 1805 |
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Michigan Territory organizes
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| 1807 |
Birth |
Ezra Cornell, founder (Western Union Telegraph, Cornell University)
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| 1807 |
Birth |
Alfred Eugene "Mudwall" Jackson, Brig General (Confederate Army)
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| 1808 |
Birth |
Antoine GB Schayes, Belgian historian/archaeologist
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| 1813 |
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1st pineapples planted in Hawaii (or 1/21)
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| 1814 |
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Richard Griffith, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1862
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