420 Historic Events for February 3
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| 1740 |
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Charles de Bourbon, King of Naples, invites Jews to return to Sicily
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| 1740 |
Birth |
Guillaume Lasceux, composer
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| 1743 |
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Philadelphia establishes a "pesthouse" to quarantine immigrants
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| 1748 |
Death |
Henri Madin, composer, dies at 49
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| 1752 |
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Dutch States-General forbid export of windmills
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| 1755 |
Birth |
Florido Tomeoni, composer
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| 1763 |
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Caroline von Wolzogen, [von Lengefeld], German author
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| 1781 |
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Dutch West Indies island of St Eustatia taken by British
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| 1783 |
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Spain recognizes US independence
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| 1784 |
Birth |
John Fane graaf van Westmorland, English (opera)composer/diplomat
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| 1803 |
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Pedro R de Campomanes, Spanish economist/lawyer/literary, dies at 79
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| 1805 |
Birth |
Otto T Freiherr von Manteuffel, premier Prussia
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| 1807 |
Birth |
Joseph Eggleston Johnston, Gen (Confederate Army), died in 1891
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| 1809 |
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Territory of Illinois organizes (including present-day Wisconsin)
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| 1809 |
Birth |
Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy, Hamburg Germ, composer (Great Scherzos)
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| 1811 |
Birth |
Horace Greeley, editor ("Go west, young man")
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| 1814 |
Death |
Johann Antonin Kozeluch, composer, dies at 75
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| 1815 |
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World's 1st commercial cheese factory established, in Switzerland
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| 1817 |
Birth |
Emile Racine Gauthier Prudent, composer
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| 1817 |
Birth |
Samuel Ryan Curtis, Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1866
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| 1820 |
Birth |
Elisha Kent Kane, US Arctic explorer (Kane Basin off NW Greenland)
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| 1821 |
Birth |
Elizabeth Blackwell, Bristol England, 1st woman physician
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| 1823 |
Birth |
Spencer F Baird, US biologist (Wood's Hole Station)
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| 1824 |
Birth |
George Thomas "Tige" Anderson, Brig General (Confederate Army)
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| 1824 |
Birth |
Nathan George "Shanks" Evans, Brig Gen (Confederacy), died in 1868
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