406 Historic Events for March 15
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| 1750 |
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Caroline Herschel, astronomer/discoverer
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| 1754 |
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Silvestro Palma, composer
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| 1767 |
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Andrew Jackson, Carolinas, General/(D) 7th pres (1829-37)
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| 1778 |
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Nootka Sound, Vancouver Is discovered by Capt Cook
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| 1779 |
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William Lamb, (Whig) Viscount Melbourne, British PM (1834, 1835-41)
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| 1781 |
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Battle of Guilford Court House, SC (British suffer heavy losses)
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| 1790 |
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Nicola Vaccai, composer
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| 1801 |
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Coenraad J van Houten, Dutch cocoa manufacturer
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| 1808 |
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Gaetano Gaspari, composer
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| 1809 |
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Joseph Jenkins Roberts, 1st pres of Liberia
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| 1810 |
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Aernout Drost, Dutch literary (Hermingard van de Eikenterpen)
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| 1811 |
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Robert Allen, Bvt Major General (Union Army), died in 1886
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| 1812 |
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1st Russian settlement in California, Russian River
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| 1820 |
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Maine admitted as 23rd state
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| 1824 |
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Branko Radicevic, Serbian poet (1st Serbian Uprising)
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| 1827 |
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Freedom's Journal, 1st Black newspaper, publishes
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| 1827 |
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University of Toronto is chartered
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| 1830 |
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Paul von Heyse, Germany, writer (Nobel 1910)
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| 1831 |
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Edward Aylesworth Perry, Brig General (Confederate Army)
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| 1835 |
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Eduard Strauss, Austria, composer (318 Dance)
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| 1836 |
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Henrique Alves de Mesquita, composer
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| 1838 |
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Alice Cunningham Fletcher, ethnologist (Stranger in Her Native Land)
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| 1842 |
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Maria Luigi C Z S Cherubini, Italian composer (Dies Irae), dies at 81
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| 1844 |
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Bransby Cooper, cricketer (in Dhaka Batsman in Australia's 1st Test)
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| 1851 |
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Jozef Surzynski, composer
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