476 Historic Events for February 22
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| 1634 |
Birth |
Petrus "Pieter" van Schooten, fortress architect
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| 1656 |
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New Amsterdam granted a Jewish burial site
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| 1674 |
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John Wilson, composer, dies at 78
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| 1684 |
Birth |
William Pulteney, London, statesman (Earl of Bath)
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| 1687 |
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Jean-Baptiste Lully, Paris, composer
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| 1690 |
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Charles Le Brun, classical painter (Academie de Peinture), dies at 70
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| 1705 |
Birth |
Peter Arctedius, [Artedi], Swedish biologist
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| 1727 |
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Francesco Gasparini, composer, dies at 58
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| 1731 |
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Frederik Ruysch, Dutch anatomist, dies at 92
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| 1732 |
Birth |
George Washington, Virginia, 1st pres (1789-97)
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| 1744 |
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Battle at Toulon: English-French and Spanish fleet
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| 1745 |
Birth |
Joao de Sousa Carvalho, composer
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| 1746 |
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Jakobijnse troops vacate Aberdeen
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| 1746 |
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French troops conquer Brussels
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| 1749 |
Birth |
Johann Nikolaus Forkel, musicologist/1st biographer of Bach
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| 1750 |
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Pietro Filippo Scarlotti, composer, dies at 71
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| 1761 |
Birth |
Erik Eriksson Tulindberg, composer
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| 1761 |
Birth |
Jacob Kimball, composer
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| 1764 |
Birth |
Alexander Campbell, composer
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| 1770 |
Birth |
Jan Matyas Nepomuk August Vitasek, composer
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| 1770 |
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Christopher Snider, 11, Boston, becomes 1st martyr of US Revolution
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| 1772 |
Birth |
Joseph Lipavsky, composer
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| 1772 |
Birth |
Karl Jacob Wagner, composer
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| 1773 |
Birth |
Matthijs I van Bree, Flemish (court)painter
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| 1774 |
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English House of Lords rules authors do not have perpetual copyright
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