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1669  Alessandro Marcello, composer   

1680  Death of Colonel (Thomas) Blood, Irish adventurer who stole Crown Jewels from Tower of London in 1671.   

1680  Ferdinand Bulb, Dutch painter/etcher, buried.   

1682  Duke James of York gives Delaware to William Penn   

1683  Meinrad Spiess, composer   

1690  Calcutta, India, is founded by the British East India Company.   

1690  Job Charnock establishes an English trading post in West Bengal, considered the official founding of India's largest city, Calcutta.   

1690  Job Charnock founds Calcutta India   

1694  Theodor A Freiherr von Neuhoff, German adventurer/king [or 8/25].   

1704  Sea battle at Malaga   

1712  Cornelis Douwes, Dutch mathematician/astronomer   

1712  Thomas Bullis, composer, dies at 54   

1724  George Stubbs, British painter is born.   

1724  Andreas Kneller, composer, dies at 75.   

1725  Johann Balthasar Kehl, composer   

1733  David Traugott Nicolai, composer.   

1751  Thomas Colley executed in England for drowning supposed witch.   

1759  William Wilberforce, British politician, philanthropist and leader of the movement to abolish the slave trade.   

1759  Ewald C von Kleist, German poet, dies at 44.   

1770  Thomas Chatterton, English poet (Revenge), dies   

1772  Willem I Frederik, grand duke of Luxembourg/king of Neth (1814-40).   

1787  Wolfgang A Mozart completes his viola sonata in A, K526.   

1787  James Weddell, Ostend England, Antarctic explorer (Weddell Sea)   

1789  James Wedell, Scottish Antarctic explorer is born   

1801  Jacques-Denis Antoine, French builder (La Monnaie Paris), dies at 68.   

1808  Benjamin Grubb Humphreys, Brig General (Confederate Army).   

1814  British sack Washington, DC, White House burned   

1814  Washington, D.C. is burned by the British.   

1814  British forces captured Washington, DC, and burned down many landmarks   

1816  The Treaty of St. Louis is signed in St. Louis, Missouri   

1816  Daniel Gooch, laid 1st successful transatlantic cables   

1817  Aleksei K Tolstoi, [Kozjma Prutkov], Russian poet/writer [OS]   

1820  Constitutionalist insurrection at Oporto, Portugal; see Portugal's crises of the Nineteenth Century   

1820  Jacopo Tomadini, composer   

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1113  Geoffrey plantagenet: France, conquered normandy   

1113  Geoffrey of anjou: Count of anjou   

1198  King alexander ii of scotland: King alexander ii of scotland (d. 1249)   

1210  Floris iv: Count of holland   

1358  King john i of castile: King john i of castile (d. 1390)   

1393  Arthur iii: Duke of brittany   

1420  Albrecht van eyb: German humanist/parson (bamberg & eichstattt)   

1531  Ercole bottrigari: Composer   

0079  Pliny the elder: Roman writer and naturalist (b. 23)   

1103  Magnus iii berbein: [blootbeen], king of norway (1093-1103),   

1217  Death of Eustace "the monk": French buccaneer,   

1313  Death of Henry vii: Roman catholic german king/emperor (1308/12-13),   

1371  Death of Eduard: Duke of gelre (1361-71), assasinated   

1540  Death of Girolamo francesco maria mazzola: Italian painter (b. 1503)   

1542  Death of Gasparo contarini: Italian diplomat and cardinal (b. 1483)   

1572  Death of Gaspard de châtillon: Count the coligny, french gen/admiral, beheaded