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02/01/1809
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Dutch King Louis Napoleon accepts metric system
Type: Event
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02/01/1810
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1st insurance co managed by blacks (American Insurance Co of Phila)
Type: Event
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02/01/1810
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Seville, Spain surrenders to French
Type: Event
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02/01/1810
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US Population: 7,239,881, Black population: 1,377,808 (19%)
Type: Event
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02/01/1810
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Charles Lenox Remond, Salem Mass, famous black
Type: Birth
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02/01/1814
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Lord Byron's "Corsair" sells 10,000 copies on day of publication
Type: Event
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02/01/1814
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Volcano Mayon on Luzon Philippines erupts killing 1,200
Type: Event
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02/01/1818
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Giuseppi Gazzaniga, composer, dies at 74
Type: Death
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02/01/1819
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Henry Lawrence Eustis, Brig General (Union volunteers), died in 1885
Type: Birth
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02/01/1821
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Charles Samvei Bovy-Lysberg, composer
Type: Birth
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02/01/1824
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Maria Theresia von Paradis, composer, dies at 64
Type: Death
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02/01/1827
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Alphonse de Rothschild, French banker
Type: Birth
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02/01/1829
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John Potts Slough, Brig General (Union volunteers), died in 1867
Type: Birth
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02/01/1832
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Ecco Epkema, Dutch classic linguist (Frisian/Old Frisian), dies at 71
Type: Death
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02/01/1833
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Henry McNeal Turner, black methodist bishop
Type: Birth
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02/01/1838
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Abraham de Veer, Dutch gov-gen of Suriname (1822-28), dies at 71
Type: Death
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02/01/1839
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James A Herne, [J Aherne], US playwright (Hearts of Oak)
Type: Birth
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02/01/1839
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Giuseppe Valadier, Italian architect/archaeologist, dies at 76
Type: Death
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02/01/1840
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Baltimore College of Dental Surgery, 1st in US, incorporated
Type: Event
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02/01/1841
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William H H Davenport, Buffalo, stage medium
Type: Birth
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02/01/1844
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Eduard Adolf Strasburger, German botanist (Angiospermen)
Type: Birth
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02/01/1844
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Granville Stanley Hall, US, psychologist
Type: Birth
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02/01/1846
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Th‚ophile Gautier publishes "Hashish Club" about his initiation
Type: Event
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02/01/1848
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Adh‚mar Esmein, French lawyer
Type: Birth
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02/01/1851
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Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, novelist (Frankenstein), dies at 53
Type: Death
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02/01/1859
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Victor August Herbert, Dublin Ireland, composer (Babes in Toyland)
Type: Birth
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02/01/1860
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1st rabbi to open House of Representatives, Morris Raphall of NYC
Type: Event
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02/01/1861
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Texas becomes 7th state to secede
Type: Event
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02/01/1861
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Dike breaks in Gelderland Netherlands
Type: Event
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02/01/1862
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Julia Howe publishes "Battle Hymn of Republic"
Type: Event
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02/01/1864
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2nd German-Danish war begins
Type: Event
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02/01/1864
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Austrian/Prussian troops occupy Sleeswijk/Holstein
Type: Event
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02/01/1864
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-Feb 8th] Battle of Yazoo River, MS
Type: Event
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02/01/1865
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13th amendment approved (National Freedom Day)
Type: Event
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02/01/1865
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General Sherman's march through South Carolina begins
Type: Event
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02/01/1865
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JS Rock, 1st black lawyer to practice in Supreme Ct, admitted to bar
Type: Event
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02/01/1867
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Bricklayers start working 8-hour days
Type: Event
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02/01/1869
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Johannes F "Frits" Bakker Sr, actor (Holland Tooneelgezelschap)
Type: Birth
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02/01/1869
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Frederik W Conrad, hydraulic engineer/railway pioneer, dies at 68
Type: Death
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02/01/1871
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Jefferson Long of Georgia is 1st black to make an official speech in House of Reps (opposing leniency to former Confederates)
Type: Event
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02/01/1871
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Alexander Nikoleyevich Serov, composer, dies at 51
Type: Death
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02/01/1872
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Paul Fort, French poet/founder of Vers et Prose
Type: Birth
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02/01/1873
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Clara Butt, Southwick Sussex, contralto (Country of Hope and Glory)
Type: Birth
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02/01/1873
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Matthew Maury, hydrographer, dies
Type: Death
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02/01/1874
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Hugo von Hofmannsthal, Austria, poet/dramatist/essayist
Type: Birth
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02/01/1875
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Eddie Pola, composer (Lullabye of Broadway)
Type: Birth
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02/01/1875
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William Sterndale Bennett, composer, dies at 58
Type: Death
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02/01/1877
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Thomas Frederick Dunhill, composer
Type: Birth
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02/01/1877
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Joseph-Leon Gatayes, composer, dies at 71
Type: Death
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02/01/1878
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George Cruikshank, English illustrator (Grimm), dies at 85
Type: Death
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