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02/17/0364
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Flavius Jovianus, Christian emperor of Rome (363-64), dies at about 32
Type: Death
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02/17/0956
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Hugo the Great, earl of Paris/duke of Francia, dies at about 55
Type: Death
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02/17/1370
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Battle at Rudau: Germany beats Lithuania
Type: Event
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02/17/1444
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Rudolf Agricola, [Roelof Huysman], Dutch humanist/organist
Type: Birth
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02/17/1490
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Charles de Bourbon, officer/governor (Lombardy)
Type: Birth
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02/17/1519
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Fran‡ois de Guise, [Balafr‚], French general strategist (Calais)
Type: Birth
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02/17/1568
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Holy Roman Emperor agrees to pay tribute to the Sultan for peace
Type: Event
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02/17/1583
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J Henry Alting, Dutch theologist
Type: Birth
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02/17/1598
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Boris Godunov chosen tsar of Russia
Type: Event
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02/17/1600
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Giordano Bruno, advocate of Copernican theory, burned at stake
Type: Death
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02/17/1612
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Jodocus Hondius, Flemish cartoonist/mathematician, dies at 48
Type: Death
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02/17/1612
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Ernst of Bayern, prince/bishop of Luik/archbish Cologne, dies at 57
Type: Death
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02/17/1621
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Miles Standish appointed 1st commander of Plymouth colony
Type: Event
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02/17/1634
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William Prynne tried in Star Chamber for publishing "Histrio-masti
Type: Event
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02/17/1652
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Gregorio Allegri, Italian singer/composer (Miserere), dies at about 67
Type: Death
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02/17/1653
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Arcangelo Corelli, Fusignano Italy, violinist/comp (Concerto Grossi)
Type: Birth
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02/17/1654
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Michael Lohr, composer, dies at 62
Type: Death
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02/17/1667
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Georg Bronner, composer
Type: Birth
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02/17/1670
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France and Bavaria sign military assistance treaty
Type: Event
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02/17/1673
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Moliare, [Jean Baptiste Poquelin], French author (Learned Lady), dies
Type: Death
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02/17/1675
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Johann Melchior Conradi, composer
Type: Birth
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02/17/1676
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Kings Charles II and Louis XIV sign secret treaty
Type: Event
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02/17/1688
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Rev James Renwick, hanged in Scotland for being a Presbyterian
Type: Death
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02/17/1691
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Thomas Neale granted British patent for American postal service
Type: Event
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02/17/1696
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Baron Ernst Gottlieb, composer
Type: Birth
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02/17/1697
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Louis-Maurice de La Pierre, composer
Type: Birth
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02/17/1699
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Hans Georg Wenzeslaus von Knobelsdorff, German architect (Sanssouci)
Type: Birth
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02/17/1714
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Parliament of Paris accepts Pope Clemens XI's "Unigenitus" degree
Type: Event
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02/17/1715
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Antoine Galland, French interpreter, dies at 68
Type: Death
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02/17/1723
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Tobias Mayer, "method of lunars" for longitude determination
Type: Birth
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02/17/1732
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Louis Marchand, composer, dies at 63
Type: Death
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02/17/1740
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Horace B de Saussure, Swiss physicist/geologist
Type: Birth
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02/17/1747
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Narciso Casanovas, composer
Type: Birth
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02/17/1752
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Friedrich M Klinger, German playwright (Wirrwarr)
Type: Birth
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02/17/1754
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Jan Jachym Kopriva, composer
Type: Birth
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02/17/1758
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John Pinkerton, Scottish historian
Type: Birth
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02/17/1772
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1st partition of Poland-Russia and Prussia, joined later by Austria
Type: Event
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02/17/1774
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Raphaelle Peale, US, painter (After the Rain-1823)
Type: Birth
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02/17/1776
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1st volume of Gibbon's "Decline and Fall of Roman Empire" published
Type: Event
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02/17/1781
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Ren‚-Th‚ophile-Hyacinthe Lannec, France, inventor (stethoscope)
Type: Birth
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02/17/1791
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Messier catalogs M83 (spiral galaxy in Hydra)
Type: Event
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02/17/1795
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Thomas Seddal harvests 8.3-kg potato from his garden Chester, England
Type: Event
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02/17/1796
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Giovanni Pacini, composer
Type: Birth
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02/17/1796
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James Macpherson, poet, dies
Type: Death
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02/17/1801
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House breaks electoral college tie, chooses Jefferson pres over Burr
Type: Event
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02/17/1803
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Louis R E prince de Rohan-Gu‚men‚, archbisp of Straatsburg, dies at 68
Type: Death
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02/17/1804
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Christian Ernst Graf, composer, dies at 80
Type: Death
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02/17/1804
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Samuel Read Anderson, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1883
Type: Birth
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02/17/1815
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Franz Gotz, composer, dies at 59
Type: Death
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02/17/1816
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Friedrich Wilhelm Markull, composer
Type: Birth
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