388 Historic Events for January 3
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| 1746 |
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Bonnie Prince Charlies army leaves Glasgow, [NS=1/14]
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| 1750 |
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Tax revolt in Haarlem Neth
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| 1752 |
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East Indies invasion "Geldermalsen" leaves at Malakka: 92 killed
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| 1757 |
Birth |
Johann Abraham Sixt, composer
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| 1759 |
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Marquis and Marquess of Tavora, Portugese nobles, executed
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| 1761 |
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Willem de Fesch, Dutch violinist/composer (Joseph), dies at 73
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| 1763 |
Birth |
Joseph Fesch, French cardinal/war commission/earl/senator
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| 1777 |
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M A Elisa Bonaparte, Corsican monarch of Lucca/Piombino
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| 1777 |
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Washington defeats British at Battle of Princeton, NJ
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| 1777 |
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Louis Poinsot, French instrument worker
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| 1780 |
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Danish national anthem "Kong Kristian...," 1st sung
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| 1786 |
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Johann Christian Friedrich Schneider, composer
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| 1789 |
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Carl G Carus, German physician/psychologist/philosopher
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| 1793 |
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Lucretia Coffin Mott, US, teacher/minister/abolitionist/feminist
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| 1795 |
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Josiah Wedgwood, British, ceramic craftsman/woodworker, dies at 64
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| 1802 |
Birth |
Feliks Ostrowski, composer
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| 1803 |
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Douglas William Jerrold, London, author/playwright/wit (Punch Mag)
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| 1810 |
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Antoine T d'Abbadie, French explorer (Ethiopia) [or Jul 24]
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| 1810 |
Birth |
Eliza Von Bretton di Zerega, Danish West Indies, baroness
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| 1819 |
Birth |
Thomas Hill Watts, Atty Gen (Confederacy), died in 1892
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| 1823 |
Birth |
Jaak-Nikolaas Lemmens, Flemish composer
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| 1825 |
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Scottish factory owner Robert Owen buys 30,000 acres in Indiana as site for New Harmony utopian community
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| 1829 |
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John G R Acquoy, theologist/church historian
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| 1829 |
Birth |
Konrad Duden, German linguist (Der grosse Duden)
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| 1829 |
Death |
Robert Archibald Smith, composer, dies at 48
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