486 Historic Events for February 15
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| 1799 |
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1st US printed ballots authorized, Pennsylvania
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| 1800 |
Birth |
Frederik W Conrad, Dutch hydraulic engineer/railway pioneer
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| 1803 |
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John Augustus Sutter, Swiss/US colonist (New Helvetia Ca, Sutter Mill)
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| 1804 |
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New Jersey becomes last northern state to abolish slavery
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| 1807 |
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Ignacy Feliks Dobrzynski, composer
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| 1809 |
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Cyrus Hall McCormick, inventor (Mechanical reaper)
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| 1811 |
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Domingo F Sarmiento, president of Argentina (1868-74)
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| 1812 |
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Charles Lewis Tiffany, Killingly Ct, jeweler (Tiffany)
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| 1817 |
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Charles F Daubigny, French restauranteur/painter
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| 1818 |
Death |
Charles XIII, King of Sweden (1809-18)/Norway (1814-18), dies at 69
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| 1819 |
Birth |
Christopher Sholes, Mooresburg Penn, inventor (typewriter)
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| 1820 |
Birth |
Susan Brownell Anthony, Adams Mass, woman's suffragette
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| 1820 |
Death |
William Ellery, US attorney (signed Decl of Independence), dies at 92
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| 1820 |
Death |
Pierre-Joseph Cambon, member of Committee the Salut Public, dies at 63
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| 1821 |
Birth |
Abraham de Amorie van der de Have, theologist/poet
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| 1822 |
Birth |
Theodor Uhlig, composer
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| 1823 |
Birth |
Li Hung-Tshang, Chinese rebel leader/viceroy of Tsheli Canton
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| 1826 |
Birth |
George J Stoney, Irish physicist
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| 1828 |
Birth |
Johan H van Dale, schoolmaster (New Dutch Language Dictionary)
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| 1829 |
Birth |
Silas Weir Mitchell, US physician/author (Roland Blake)
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| 1831 |
Death |
Henry Maudslay, inventor (metal lathe), dies
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| 1832 |
Death |
Hardenack Otto Conrad Zinck, composer, dies at 85
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| 1834 |
Birth |
William Preece, English electrical engineer/wireless pioneer
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| 1835 |
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Alexander Stuart Webb, Major General (Union Army), died in 1911
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| 1835 |
Death |
Henry Hunt, British politican, dies
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