420 Historic Events for February 16
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| 1698 |
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Pierre Bouguer, French mathematician (heliometer)
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| 1709 |
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Charles Avison, composer
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| 1740 |
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Giambattista Bodoni, Saluzzo Italy, printer/typeface designer (Bodoni)
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| 1741 |
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Benjamin Franklin's General Magazine (2nd US Mag) begins publishing
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| 1742 |
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Earl of Wilmington becomes British premier
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| 1746 |
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Johann Heinse, German Sturm und Drang novelist/art critic
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| 1751 |
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1st publication of Gray's "Elegy Written in a Country Church Yard"
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| 1754 |
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Richard Mead, physician, dies
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| 1760 |
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Native American hostages killed in Ft Prince George SC
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| 1771 |
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Messier presents his original list of 45 M-objects to French Academy
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| 1774 |
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Pierre Rode, composer
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| 1777 |
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Messier adds M53 to his catalog (globular cluster in Coma Berenice)
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| 1779 |
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William Boyce, English organist/composer (Cathedral Music), dies
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| 1787 |
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Andreas Schelfhout, Dutch painter/etcher/lithographer
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| 1788 |
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Juan van Halen, Dutch/Spanish officer/adventurer
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| 1790 |
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Chretien Urhan, composer
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| 1791 |
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Richard earl d'Alton, Austria general of S Neth, commits suicide at 58
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| 1799 |
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Charles Theoby, ruler (Palts and Bayern), dies at 74
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| 1803 |
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Jan V clav Stich, Bohemian composer, dies at 56
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| 1804 |
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Lt Stephen Decatur raids Tripoli Harbor and burns Navy frigate "Philadelphia" after pirates seized it
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| 1807 |
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Lysander Cutler, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1866
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| 1812 |
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Henry Wilson, (R) 18th VP (1873-75)
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| 1813 |
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Joseph Reid Anderson, Brig General (Confederate Army) died in 1892
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| 1813 |
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Semyon Stepanovich Gulak-Artemovsky, composer
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| 1821 |
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Heinrich Barth, Hamburg Germany, geographer/explorer (Central Africa)
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