440 Historic Events for February 25
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| 1719 |
Death |
Giovanni Maria Casini, composer, dies at 66
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| 1723 |
Death |
Christopher Wren, England, astronomer/architect, dies at 90
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| 1725 |
Birth |
Armand-Louis Couperin, Paris France, organist/composer (Notre Dame)
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| 1725 |
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Karl Wilhelm Ramler, German poet (Geistliche Kantaten)
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| 1727 |
Birth |
Armand-Louis Couperin, composer
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| 1731 |
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Simon Stijl, Frisian physician/writer
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| 1732 |
Birth |
Robert Hudson, composer
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| 1735 |
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Ernst William Wolf, composer
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| 1746 |
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Cumberlands troops occupy Aberdeen
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| 1751 |
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1st performing monkey exhibited in America, NYC (admission 1›)
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| 1778 |
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Jos‚ Francisco de San Mart¡n, liberated Argentina, Chile and Per£
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| 1788 |
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Mateo Ferrer, composer
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| 1791 |
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1st Bank of US chartered
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| 1793 |
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1st cabinet meeting (At George Washington's home)
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| 1794 |
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Gerrit Schimmelpenninck, Dutch earl of Nijenhuis/Peckedam
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| 1799 |
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1st federal forestry legislation authorizes purchase of timber land
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| 1799 |
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Congress passes 1st federal quarantine legislation
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| 1803 |
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1,800 sovereign German states unite into 60 states
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| 1804 |
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Jefferson nominated for president at Democratic-Republican caucus
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| 1807 |
Birth |
George Alfred Trenholm, Secy Treas (Confederacy), died in 1876
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| 1808 |
Birth |
James Bowen, Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1886
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| 1809 |
Birth |
George Washington Cullom, Bvt Major General (Union Army), died in 1892
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| 1811 |
Birth |
Carl Schuberth, composer
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| 1814 |
Birth |
Taras Shevchenko, Ukrainian national poet/painter (3/9 NS) [OS]
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| 1815 |
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Robert Hall Chilton, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1879
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