393 Historic Events for January 25
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| 1708 |
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Pompeo Girolamo Batoni, Italian painter
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| 1721 |
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Czar Peter the Great ends Russian-orthodox patriarchy
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| 1726 |
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Guillaume Delisle, French geographer (Atlas g‚ographique), dies at 50
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| 1728 |
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Antoine Court de G‚belin, French vicar/writer
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| 1733 |
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Reinier V van Hompech, Dutch gen-maj cavalry, dies
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| 1736 |
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Joseph-Louis, comte de Lagrange, Turin, French mathematician
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| 1741 |
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Benedict Arnold, general/traitor (US revolution)
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| 1744 |
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Domenico Natale Sarro, Italian opera composer, dies at 64
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| 1750 |
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Johann Gottfried Vierling, composer
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| 1759 |
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Robert Burns, Alloway Scotland, poet (Auld Lang Syne)
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| 1766 |
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Hans CE Freiherr von Gagern, German advisor to Dutch king Willem I
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| 1770 |
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Francis Burdett, British politician
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| 1775 |
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Americans drag cannon up hill to fight British (Gun Hill Road, Bronx)
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| 1777 |
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Elias Canneman, Dutch liberal minister of Finance (1813-14)
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| 1787 |
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Shays' Rebellion suffers a setback when debt-ridden farmers, led by Capt Daniel Shays, fail to capture an arsenal at Springfield, Mass
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| 1796 |
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William McGillivray, Old Aberdeen, naturalist
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| 1799 |
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1st US patent for a seeding machine, Eliakim Spooner, Vermont
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| 1802 |
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Napoleon elected president of Italian (Cisalpine) Republic
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| 1806 |
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Daniel Maclise, Irish painter
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| 1814 |
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Francis Harrison Pierpont, governor (Union), died in 1899
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| 1817 |
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Rossini's opera "La Cenerentola" premieres in Rome
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| 1820 |
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Joseph F Weigl, German/Austria violin cellist, dies at 79
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| 1821 |
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Johan Valckenier, Dutch politician/patriot, dies at 62
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| 1825 |
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1st US engineering college opens, Rensselaer Polytechnic, Troy, NY
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| 1826 |
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Rembt T H P L A van Boneval Faure, Dutch MP
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