436 Historic Events for May 12
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| 1695 |
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English king Willem III departs to Netherlands
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| 1700 |
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Luigi Vanvitelli, Italian architect
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| 1701 |
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Drenthe adopts Gregorian calendar (yesterday is 4/29/1701)
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| 1729 |
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Micha‰l F B Freiherr von Melas, Austrian general (7 Year Wars)
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| 1733 |
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Maria Theresa crowned queen of Bohemia in Prague
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| 1737 |
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Cornelis van Alkemade, historian, dies at 83
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| 1739 |
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Johann Baptist Vanhal, composer
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| 1739 |
Birth |
Jan Krtitel Vanhal, composer
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| 1751 |
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Gaetano Manna, composer
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| 1754 |
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Franz Anton Hoffmeister, composer
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| 1776 |
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Juan Bros y Bertomel, composer
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| 1776 |
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Turgot, French minister of Finance, resigns
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| 1777 |
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1st ice cream advertisement (Philip Lenzi-NY Gazette)
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| 1780 |
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British troops occupy Charleston, South Carolina
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| 1780 |
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Charleston, SC falls to British (Revolutionary War)
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| 1788 |
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Louis E van Brunswick-Wolfenbttel, Austrian duke, dies at 69
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| 1789 |
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Society of St Tammany is formed by Revolutionary War soldiers. It later becomes an infamous group of NYC political bosses
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| 1790 |
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[Johannes] Carsten Hauch, Danish writer
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| 1792 |
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Toilet that flushes itself at regular intervals is patented
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| 1796 |
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Johann P Uz, German poet (Theodicee), dies at 75
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| 1797 |
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Johann Hermann Kufferath, composer
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| 1803 |
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Justus Freiherr von Liebig, German chemist (agricultural chemics)
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| 1804 |
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Robert Baldwin, (L) help establish govt in Canada (or 1904)
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| 1806 |
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Amos Beebe Eaton, Bvt Major General (Union Army), died in 1877
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| 1806 |
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J V Snellman, Finland, journalist/statesman/nationalist
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