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02/22/1775
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1st US joint stock company (to make cloth) offers shares at œ10
Type: Event
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02/22/1775
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Jews expelled from outskirts of Warsaw Poland
Type: Event
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02/22/1778
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Rembrandt Peale, portrait/historical painter (Court of Death)
Type: Birth
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02/22/1779
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Joachim Nicolas Eggert, composer
Type: Birth
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02/22/1784
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1st US ship to trade with China, "Empress of China," sails from NY
Type: Event
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02/22/1788
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Arthur Schopenhauer, Germany, philosopher (Great Pessimist)
Type: Birth
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02/22/1788
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Franz Joseph Oehlschlagel, composer, dies at 63
Type: Death
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02/22/1796
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Adolphe Quetelet, Belgium, mathematician/astronomer/statistician
Type: Birth
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02/22/1797
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William I, Berlin, King of Prussia (1861-88)/German Emperor (1871-88)
Type: Birth
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02/22/1798
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Charles Mynn Thruston, Brig General (Union volunteers), died in 1873
Type: Birth
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02/22/1810
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Fr‚d‚ric F Chopin, Polish/French pianist/composer [OS]
Type: Birth
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02/22/1810
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Holger Simon Paulli, composer
Type: Birth
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02/22/1814
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Henryk Oskar Kolberg, composer
Type: Birth
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02/22/1816
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Adam Ferguson, Scottish sociologist/historian, dies at 92
Type: Death
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02/22/1817
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Niels Wilhelm Gade, Danish violinist/composer/conductor
Type: Birth
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02/22/1819
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Spain renounces claims to Oregon Country, Florida (Adams-On¡s Treaty)
Type: Event
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02/22/1819
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Bernardo Calvo Puig, composer
Type: Birth
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02/22/1819
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James Russell Lowell, poet/critic/diplomat/abolitionist
Type: Birth
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02/22/1821
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Spain sells (east) Florida to United States for $5 million
Type: Event
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02/22/1821
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Giovanni Bottesini, composer
Type: Birth
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02/22/1822
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Adolf Kuszmaul, German physician (stomach pump, Kuszmaul disease)
Type: Birth
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02/22/1822
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Johann Ignaz Walter, composer, dies at 66
Type: Death
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02/22/1824
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John Davy, composer, dies at 60
Type: Death
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02/22/1825
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Russia and Britain establish Alaska-Canada boundary
Type: Event
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02/22/1827
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James Barnet Fry, Bvt Major General (Union Army), died in 1894
Type: Birth
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02/22/1828
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Russia and Persia sign Peace of Turkmantsjai
Type: Event
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02/22/1828
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Robert Alexander Cameron, Bvt Mjr Gen (Union volunteers), died in 1894
Type: Birth
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02/22/1829
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Adam A earl von Neipperg, Austrian general, dies at 53
Type: Death
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02/22/1832
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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, poet, Weimar, Germany
Type: Death
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02/22/1833
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Josef Foerster, composer
Type: Birth
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02/22/1834
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Albert Heinrich Zabel, composer
Type: Birth
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02/22/1835
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HMS Beagle/Charles Darwin leave Valdivia Chile
Type: Event
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02/22/1836
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Dutch garrison evacuates fort Du Bus New Guinea
Type: Event
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02/22/1836
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Eduard Wachmann, composer
Type: Birth
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02/22/1836
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John Clarke-Whitfeld, composer, dies at 65
Type: Death
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02/22/1838
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Pierre Jules Cesar Janssen, discoverer of hydrogen in Sun
Type: Birth
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02/22/1838
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Friedrich Johann Eck, composer, dies at 70
Type: Death
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02/22/1840
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F August Bebel, German social-democrat
Type: Birth
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02/22/1842
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Carl Rosa, Hamburg Germany, founder (Rosa opera company)
Type: Birth
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02/22/1842
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L‚on Vanderkindere, Belgian historian/mayor (Ukkel)
Type: Birth
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02/22/1843
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Affonso de Escragnolle Taunay, France/Brazil writer (Inocencia)
Type: Birth
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02/22/1844
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Kazamierz Julian Kratzer, composer
Type: Birth
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02/22/1846
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Carolus Antonius Fodor, composer, dies at 77
Type: Death
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02/22/1846
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Nikoli A Poveloi, Russian writer/publisher, dies at 49 [OS]
Type: Death
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02/22/1847
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Battle of Buena Vista: US troops beat Mexican army
Type: Event
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02/22/1849
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Alexander Ernst Fesca, composer, dies at 28
Type: Death
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02/22/1850
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Isaac L Rice, Germany, (namesake of Columbia Univ's Rice stadium)
Type: Birth
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02/22/1852
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Pieter K Pel, internist (Pel-Ebstein fever)
Type: Birth
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02/22/1854
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1st meeting of Republican Party (Michigan)
Type: Event
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02/22/1856
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1st national meeting of Republican Party (Pittsburgh)
Type: Event
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