447 Historic Events for February 17
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| 1697 |
Birth |
Louis-Maurice de La Pierre, composer
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| 1699 |
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Hans Georg Wenzeslaus von Knobelsdorff, German architect (Sanssouci)
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| 1714 |
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Parliament of Paris accepts Pope Clemens XI's "Unigenitus" degree
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| 1715 |
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Antoine Galland, French interpreter, dies at 68
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| 1723 |
Birth |
Tobias Mayer, "method of lunars" for longitude determination
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| 1732 |
Death |
Louis Marchand, composer, dies at 63
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| 1740 |
Birth |
Horace B de Saussure, Swiss physicist/geologist
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| 1747 |
Birth |
Narciso Casanovas, composer
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| 1752 |
Birth |
Friedrich M Klinger, German playwright (Wirrwarr)
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| 1754 |
Birth |
Jan Jachym Kopriva, composer
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| 1758 |
Birth |
John Pinkerton, Scottish historian
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| 1772 |
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1st partition of Poland-Russia and Prussia, joined later by Austria
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| 1774 |
Birth |
Raphaelle Peale, US, painter (After the Rain-1823)
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| 1776 |
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1st volume of Gibbon's "Decline and Fall of Roman Empire" published
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| 1781 |
Birth |
Ren‚-Th‚ophile-Hyacinthe Lannec, France, inventor (stethoscope)
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| 1791 |
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Messier catalogs M83 (spiral galaxy in Hydra)
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| 1795 |
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Thomas Seddal harvests 8.3-kg potato from his garden Chester, England
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| 1796 |
Birth |
Giovanni Pacini, composer
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| 1796 |
Death |
James Macpherson, poet, dies
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| 1801 |
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House breaks electoral college tie, chooses Jefferson pres over Burr
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| 1803 |
Death |
Louis R E prince de Rohan-Gu‚men‚, archbisp of Straatsburg, dies at 68
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| 1804 |
Death |
Christian Ernst Graf, composer, dies at 80
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| 1804 |
Birth |
Samuel Read Anderson, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1883
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| 1815 |
Death |
Franz Gotz, composer, dies at 59
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| 1816 |
Birth |
Friedrich Wilhelm Markull, composer
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