361 Historic Events for August 13
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| 1696 |
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State of Drenthe accredits Willem III as mayor
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| 1704 |
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French and Bavarian forces were routed by a combined British, German and Dutch army at Blenheim, Germany
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| 1704 |
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Lorenzo Fago, composer
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| 1713 |
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King Frederik Willem declares war on Brandenburg-Prussia
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| 1717 |
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Christoph Nichelsmann, German composer
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| 1721 |
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Francis Ireland, composer
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| 1732 |
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Voltaire's "Za‹re," premieres in Paris
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| 1740 |
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Hunger strike in Rotterdam
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| 1747 |
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Adrien-Joseph van Helmont, composer
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| 1748 |
Birth |
Pieter L van de Kasteele, Dutch politician/patriot
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| 1749 |
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J E Schlegel, writer, dies
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| 1762 |
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John Alberti, theologist/philological, dies at 64
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| 1784 |
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English parliament accept India Act
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| 1787 |
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Isa„c de Pinto, merchant/lender/Dutch States-general, dies
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| 1788 |
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Prussia joins Anglo-Dutch alliance to form Triple Alliance to prevent spread of Russo-Swedish War of 1788-90
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| 1792 |
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Revolutionaries imprison French royals including Marie Antoinette
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| 1799 |
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English fleet under lord Seymour overthrows Suriname
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| 1802 |
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Nikolaus Lenau, Hungary, German poet (Faust, Die Albigenser)
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| 1808 |
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Henri Hardouin, composer, dies at 81
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| 1814 |
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Treaty of London-Netherland stops transporting slaves
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| 1814 |
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Cape of Good Hope formally ceded to British by the Dutch
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| 1814 |
Birth |
Anders Jonas ngstr”m, Sweden, physicist (spectroscope)
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| 1817 |
Birth |
Karoly Thern, composer
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| 1818 |
Birth |
Lucy Blackwell-Stone, US abolitionist (US Woman's Suffrage Assn)
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| 1819 |
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George Gabriel Stokes, physicist/mathematician (spectroscope)
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