429 Historic Events for March 17
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| 1806 |
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David Dale, industrialist and philanthropist, dies
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| 1820 |
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Patrick Edward Connor, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers)
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| 1824 |
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England and Netherlands sign a trade agreement
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| 1825 |
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Rodolphe Bresdin, French cartoonist/lithographer (Le Bon Samaritain)
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| 1826 |
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Oskar Peschel, German journalist/geography (V”lkerkunder)
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| 1828 |
Birth |
Patrick Ronayne Cleburne, Major General (Confederate Army)
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| 1832 |
Birth |
Moncure Daniel Conway, US, abolitionist (Life of Thomas Paine)
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| 1832 |
Birth |
Walter Quintin Gresham, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers)
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| 1833 |
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Phoenix Society forms (NY)
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| 1834 |
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Gottlieb Daimler, Germany, engineer/inventor/designed 1st motorcycle
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| 1836 |
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Texas abolishes slavery
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| 1839 |
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Josef Rheinberger, Vaduz Liechtenstein, opera composer (Munich Conser)
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| 1842 |
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Indians land in Ohio, a 12ý-mile area in Upper Sandusky
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| 1845 |
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Bristol man, Henry Jones, patents self-raising flour
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| 1845 |
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Rubber band patented by Stephen Perry of London
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| 1846 |
Birth |
Kate Greenaway, England, artist/book illustrator (Under the Window)
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| 1846 |
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Friedrich W Bessel, German astronomer (Bessel Functions), dies at 61
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| 1846 |
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F W Bessel, measured distance to 61 Cygni, dies
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| 1847 |
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"Macbeth" opera premieres in Florence
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| 1848 |
Birth |
Horace Wadham Nicholl, composer
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| 1849 |
Death |
Willem II Frederik GL, King of Netherlands (1840-49), dies at 56
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| 1853 |
Death |
Christian Doppler, physicist, dies
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| 1854 |
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1st park land purchased by a US city, Worcester, Mass
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| 1855 |
Death |
Ramon Carnicer y Batlle, composer, dies at 65
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| 1857 |
Death |
Adolph Trube, composer, dies at 42
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