412 Historic Events for March 13
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| 1700 |
Birth |
Michel Blavet, composer
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| 1712 |
Birth |
Isfrid Kayser, composer
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| 1716 |
Death |
Georg Gabriel Schutz, composer, dies at 46
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| 1733 |
Birth |
Joseph Priestly, England, clergyman/scientist (discovered oxygen)
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| 1735 |
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1st US Moravian bishop, David Nitschmann, consecrated in Germany
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| 1741 |
Birth |
Jozef II, arch duke of Austria/RC German emperor (1765-90)
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| 1744 |
Birth |
David Allan, Scottish painter
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| 1746 |
Birth |
Maurus Haberhauer, composer
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| 1752 |
Birth |
Josef Reicha, composer
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| 1756 |
Death |
Johann Melchior Conradi, composer, dies at 81
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| 1759 |
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27th recorded perihelion passage of Halley's Comet
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| 1764 |
Birth |
Charles Earl Grey, (Whig), British PM (1830-34)
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| 1767 |
Birth |
Heinrich Domnich, composer
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| 1768 |
Birth |
Charles Louis WJ van Keverberg, Dutch civil servant
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| 1770 |
Birth |
Daniel Lambert, England, giant (weighed 739 lbs (334 kg) at death)
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| 1772 |
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Gotthold Lessing's "Emilia Calotti," premieres in Brunswick
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| 1779 |
Birth |
Oliver Shaw, composer
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| 1781 |
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Sir William Herschel sees "comet" (really discovered Uranus)
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| 1781 |
Birth |
Karl F Schinkel, German architect/painter/writer (Schloss Tegel)
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| 1790 |
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John Martin, 1st American-born actor, performs in Philadelphia
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| 1797 |
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Cherubini's opera "Med‚e," premieres in Paris
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| 1798 |
Birth |
Abigail Powers Fillmore, 1st lady (1850-53)
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| 1817 |
Death |
Matej Sojka, composer, dies at 77
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| 1818 |
Birth |
Albion Parris Howe, Bvt Major General (Union Army), died in 1897
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| 1820 |
Birth |
Louis Herbert, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1901
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