432 Historic Events for January 6
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| 1773 |
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Massachusetts slaves petition legislature for freedom
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| 1776 |
Birth |
Ferdinand von Schill, Prussian officer/rebel
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| 1781 |
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Battle of Jersey (Island in UK)
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| 1784 |
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Turkey and Russia sign treaty in Constantinople
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| 1785 |
Death |
Haym Salomon, dies in Phila at 44, helped finance the revolution
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| 1790 |
Death |
Johann Trier, composer, dies at 73
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| 1791 |
Birth |
Jose Melchor Gomiz y Colomer, composer
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| 1794 |
Birth |
Kaspar Masek, composer
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| 1798 |
Birth |
Ferdinand Simon Gassner, composer
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| 1799 |
Death |
Maria G Agnesi, Italian mathematician (xýy=aý(a-y)), dies at 80
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| 1799 |
Death |
W G Frederik, prince of Orange/general, dies at 25
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| 1799 |
Birth |
Jedediah Strong Smith, US fur trader/explorer
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| 1800 |
Birth |
Willem A Schimmelpenninck van der Oye, Dutch politician
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| 1800 |
Death |
William Jones, composer, dies at 73
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| 1802 |
Birth |
Ion Heliade-Radulescu, Romania, author/novelist/writer (Gramatica)
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| 1803 |
Birth |
Henri Herz, composer
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| 1807 |
Birth |
Joseph Holt, Bvt Major General (Union Army), died in 1894
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| 1807 |
Birth |
Ludwig Erk, composer
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| 1811 |
Birth |
Charles Sumner, leading Reconstruction senator, died in 1874
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| 1822 |
Birth |
Heinrich Schliemann, German polyglot/archeologist (Troje)
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| 1826 |
Birth |
Herman Grimm, Germany, writer/novelist (Ralph Waldo Emerson)
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| 1827 |
Birth |
John Wesley Frazer, Brig General (Confederate Army), die in 1906
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| 1827 |
Birth |
John Calvin Brown, Major General (Confederate Army), died in 1889
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| 1829 |
Birth |
Kanagaki Robun [Bunzo Nozaki], Japanese humorist/gesaku-author
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| 1831 |
Death |
Rodolphe Kreutzer, Fr composer/violinist (Kreutzersonate), dies at 64
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