348 Historic Events for April 2
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| 1735 |
Birth |
Christian Gotthilf Tag, composer
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| 1735 |
Birth |
Franz Volrath Buttstett, composer
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| 1740 |
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Armand-Gaston Camus, French CEO (Council of 500)
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| 1745 |
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Austria and Bavaria sign peace
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| 1747 |
Death |
Johann J Dillenius, German botanist, dies at 63
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| 1758 |
Death |
Johann Balthasar Konig, composer, dies at 67
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| 1763 |
Birth |
Giacomo Gotifredo Ferrari, composer
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| 1784 |
Death |
Pierre Leclair, composer, dies at 74
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| 1792 |
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US authorizes $10 Eagle, $5 half-Eagle and 2.50 quarter-Eagle gold coins and silver dollar, « dollar, quarter, dime and half-dime
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| 1792 |
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Congress establishes Philadelphia mint
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| 1798 |
Birth |
H v Fallersleben, writer
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| 1800 |
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1st performance of Ludwig von Beethoven's 1st Symphony in C
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| 1803 |
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Hieronymus van Alphen, Dutch attorney/poet (church hymns), dies at 56
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| 1803 |
Birth |
Franz Paul Lachner, composer
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| 1805 |
Birth |
Hans Christian Andersen, Denmark, author of 150 fairy tales
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| 1806 |
Birth |
Giacomo Antonelli, Italian cardinal/asst sec of state for Pius IX
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| 1814 |
Birth |
Henry Lewis "Old Rock" Benning, Brig General (Confederate Army
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| 1817 |
Birth |
Teodulo Mabellini, composer
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| 1819 |
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1st successful agricultural journal ("American Farmer") begins
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| 1826 |
Birth |
Philip Dale Roddey, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1897
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| 1827 |
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Joseph Dixon begins manufacturing lead pencils
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| 1827 |
Birth |
William Holdman Hunt, English painter (Light of the World)
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| 1831 |
Death |
Charles Felix, blind King of Sardina (1821-31), dies at 74
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| 1833 |
Birth |
Thomas Howard Ruger, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers)
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| 1834 |
Birth |
Fr‚d‚ric-Auguste Bertholdi, France, sculptor (Statue of Liberty)
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