390 Historic Events for May 13
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| 1830 |
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Zebulon Baird Vance, Governor (Confederacy), died in 1894
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| 1831 |
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Willem baron of Goltstein of Oldenaller, Dutch minister of Colonies
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| 1831 |
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Christian G K”rner, German lawyer, dies at 74
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| 1832 |
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Georges Cuvier, French zoologist (La RŠgne Animal), dies at 62
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| 1835 |
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1st foreign embassy in Hawaii forms
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| 1835 |
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John Nash, British town planner/architect (Regent's Park), dies
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| 1839 |
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Israel Ashkenazi of Shklov, found Ashkenazic community (1815), dies
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| 1839 |
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Joseph Fesch, French cardinal/war commission/earl/senator, dies
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| 1840 |
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Alphonse Daudet, writer
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| 1840 |
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L-M Alphonse Daudet, French writer (Tartarin of Tarascon)
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| 1842 |
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Arthur Seymour Sullivan, London England, composer (Gilbert and Sullivan)
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| 1843 |
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Count Paul J Smet de Naeyer, Belgian politician
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| 1846 |
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US declares war on M‚xico, 2 months after fighting begins
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| 1847 |
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Johannes Haarklou, composer
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| 1854 |
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Paul Klengel, composer
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| 1854 |
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Louis H Chrispijn, Dutch director (Lost and Found, Silvia Silombra)
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| 1856 |
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Peter Henry Emerson, 1st to promote photography as an independent art
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| 1857 |
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Ronald Ross, England, pathologist (Nobel 1902)
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| 1859 |
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Eugust Enna, composer
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| 1861 |
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Queen Victoria announces England's position of neutrality
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| 1864 |
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-16] Atlanta Campaign-Battle of Resaca Georgia
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| 1864 |
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Junius Daniel, Confederate brig-general, dies at 35
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| 1865 |
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S Brownsville, TX (Palmito Ranch) Final engagement of Civil War PVT John J Williams of 34th Indiana is last man killed
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| 1866 |
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Ottokar Eugen Novacek, composer
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| 1867 |
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Frank Brangwyn, Wales, painter/muralist/cartoonist (Willam Morris)
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