This day in History - March 6

417 Historic Events for March 6
1674 Death Johann Paul Schor, German barok painter, dies at 58
1698 Birth John Alberti, Dutch theologist/philologist
1710 Birth Giuseppi Antonio Paganelli, composer
1714 Event Peace of Rastatt - French emperor Charles VI of Habsburg
1720 Death Pieter van Flowers, Flemish painter, buried at 63
1728 Event Spain and England sign (1st) Convention of Pardo
1740 Birth Giovanni Meli, Siclian poet (Buccolica)
1753 Death Gerhardus Havingha, composer, dies at 56
1754 Death Henry Pelham, English premier (1745, 46-54), Gin Act, dies at about 57
1761 Birth Earl d'Andr‚ossi, French general/member of parliament
1763 Birth Jean Xavier Lefevre, composer
1765 Birth Jan Kops, Dutch agronomist/vicar
1775 Event 1st Negro Mason in US initiated, Boston
1779 Birth Philipp Roth, composer
1785 Birth Karol Kazimierz Kurpinski, composer
1787 Birth Joseph von Fraunhofer, Germany, physicist (studied Sun's spectrum)
1791 Birth Anna Claypoole Peale, painted miniatures
1793 Birth Bernhard Joseph Klein, composer
1799 Event Napolean captures Jaffa Palestine
1806 Birth Elizabeth Barrett Browning, poet (Sonnets from the Portuguese)
1808 Event 1st college orchestra in US founded, at Harvard
1810 Event Illinois passes 1st state vaccination legislation in US
1812 Birth Aaron Lufkin Dennison, father of American watchmaking
1816 Event Jews are expelled from Free city of Lubeck Germany
1820 Birth Horatio Gouverneur Wright, Major General (Union volunteers)