433 Historic Events for January 5
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| 1675 |
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Battle at Turkheim (Colmar): French army beats Brandenburg
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| 1679 |
Birth |
Pietro Filippo Scarlotti, composer
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| 1684 |
Death |
Claude Audran II, French painter/engraver, dies at 44
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| 1709 |
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Sudden extreme cold kills 1000s of Europeans
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| 1710 |
Birth |
Friedrich Wilhelm Reidt, composer
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| 1717 |
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Prussian King Frederik Willem I buys conscript for nobles
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| 1719 |
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Engl/Hannover/Saxony-Poland/Austria sign anti-Prussian/Russian pact
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| 1729 |
Birth |
Paul C la Fargue, cartoonist/painter
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| 1740 |
Death |
Antonio Lotti, Italian opera composer, dies at about 72
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| 1746 |
Death |
Anton Simon Ignaz Praelisauer, composer, dies at 53
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| 1757 |
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Failed assassination attempt on French king Louis XV by Damiens
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| 1759 |
Death |
Thomas-Philippe et de Boussu, S Neth cardinal, dies at 79
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| 1759 |
Birth |
Jacques Cathelineau, French royalist/army leader
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| 1762 |
Death |
Elisabeth Petrovna, tsarina of Russia (1741-62), dies at 52 [NS]
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| 1769 |
Birth |
Jean Baptiste Say, French economist (Political Economics)
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| 1773 |
Birth |
Pieter Fontijn, Dutch painter/drawer
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| 1776 |
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Assembly of New Hampshire adopts its 1st state constitution
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| 1778 |
Birth |
Fortunato Santini, composer
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| 1779 |
Birth |
Stephen Decatur, US, naval hero (War of 1812)
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| 1779 |
Birth |
Zebulon Montgomery Pike, explorer (Pike's Peak)
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| 1780 |
Birth |
Claire EJ, countess of R‚musat/Vergennes/French author (Salon)
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| 1781 |
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British naval expedition led by Benedict Arnold burns Richmond, Va
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| 1783 |
Death |
Friedrich Wilhelm Reidt, composer, dies on 73rd birthday
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| 1787 |
Birth |
John Burke, Irish genealogist (Burke's Peerage)
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| 1788 |
Birth |
Kaspar Ett, German organist/composer
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