393 Historic Events for March 31
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| 1717 |
Birth |
Florian Wrastill, composer
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| 1722 |
Death |
Campegius Vitringa, Dutch theologist/exegete, dies at 62
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| 1723 |
Birth |
Frederik V, King of Denmark/Norway (1746-66)
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| 1732 |
Birth |
Franz Joseph Haydn, Austria, composer, help develop classical style
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| 1741 |
Death |
Peter Burmannus, [Peter Burman], Dutch attorney/classicist, dies at 72
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| 1745 |
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Jews are expelled from Prague
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| 1747 |
Birth |
Johann Abraham Peter Schulz, German composer (Moon has Risen)
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| 1747 |
Birth |
Johann A P Schulz, German composer
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| 1791 |
Birth |
Franciszek Wincenty Mirecki, composer
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| 1796 |
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Johann Wolfgang von Goethes "Egmont," premieres in Weimar
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| 1808 |
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French created Kingdom of Westphalia orders Jews to adopt family names
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| 1809 |
Birth |
Otto Jonas Lindblad, composer
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| 1809 |
Death |
Franz Joseph Haydn, composer, dies on 77th birthday
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| 1809 |
Birth |
Edward FitzGerald, England, writer (Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam)
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| 1809 |
Birth |
Nikolai Gogol, father of 19th-century Russian realism (Dead Souls)
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| 1811 |
Birth |
Robert Wilhelm Eberhard von Bunsen, Germany, chemist (Bunsen Burner)
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| 1814 |
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Forces allied against Napoleon capture Paris
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| 1822 |
Birth |
Rafael Hernando, composer
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| 1831 |
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Qu‚bec and Montr‚al incorporated
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| 1831 |
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Mainzer Rijnvaart Convention ends
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| 1831 |
Birth |
Archibald Scott, Scottish chemist
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| 1835 |
Birth |
John La Farge, US painter
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| 1837 |
Birth |
Robert Ross McBurney, 1st paid secretary of the YMCA
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| 1837 |
Death |
John Constable, English painter/water colors painter, dies at 60
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| 1837 |
Birth |
Stephen Dodson Ramseur, Major General (Confederate Army), died in 1864
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