476 Historic Events for February 22
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| 1775 |
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1st US joint stock company (to make cloth) offers shares at œ10
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| 1775 |
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Jews expelled from outskirts of Warsaw Poland
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| 1778 |
Birth |
Rembrandt Peale, portrait/historical painter (Court of Death)
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| 1779 |
Birth |
Joachim Nicolas Eggert, composer
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| 1784 |
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1st US ship to trade with China, "Empress of China," sails from NY
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| 1788 |
Death |
Franz Joseph Oehlschlagel, composer, dies at 63
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| 1788 |
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Arthur Schopenhauer, Germany, philosopher (Great Pessimist)
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| 1796 |
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Adolphe Quetelet, Belgium, mathematician/astronomer/statistician
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| 1797 |
Birth |
William I, Berlin, King of Prussia (1861-88)/German Emperor (1871-88)
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| 1798 |
Birth |
Charles Mynn Thruston, Brig General (Union volunteers), died in 1873
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| 1810 |
Birth |
Holger Simon Paulli, composer
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| 1810 |
Birth |
Fr‚d‚ric F Chopin, Polish/French pianist/composer [OS]
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| 1814 |
Birth |
Henryk Oskar Kolberg, composer
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| 1816 |
Death |
Adam Ferguson, Scottish sociologist/historian, dies at 92
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| 1817 |
Birth |
Niels Wilhelm Gade, Danish violinist/composer/conductor
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| 1819 |
Birth |
James Russell Lowell, poet/critic/diplomat/abolitionist
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| 1819 |
Birth |
Bernardo Calvo Puig, composer
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| 1819 |
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Spain renounces claims to Oregon Country, Florida (Adams-On¡s Treaty)
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| 1821 |
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Spain sells (east) Florida to United States for $5 million
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| 1821 |
Birth |
Giovanni Bottesini, composer
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| 1822 |
Birth |
Adolf Kuszmaul, German physician (stomach pump, Kuszmaul disease)
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| 1822 |
Death |
Johann Ignaz Walter, composer, dies at 66
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| 1824 |
Death |
John Davy, composer, dies at 60
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| 1825 |
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Russia and Britain establish Alaska-Canada boundary
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| 1827 |
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James Barnet Fry, Bvt Major General (Union Army), died in 1894
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