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1776  US army evacuates Long Island/falls back to Manhattan, NYC.   

1781  French fleet of 24 ships under Comte de Grasse defeat British under Admiral Graves at battle of Chesapeake Capes in Revolutionary War.   

1791  The HMS Pandora sank after running aground on a reef the previous day   

1797  Mary Shelley, English novelist and creator of 'Frankenstein' is born.   

1797  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, London England, author (Frankenstein)   

1799  Bataafse fleet surrender to English.   

1800  Gabriel Prosser leads a slave rebellion in Richmond, Virginia.   

1804  Aleksandr I Polezjajev, Russian poet (Sasjka) [OS].   

1805  Michael Sars, Norwegian zoologist.   

1808  Joseph Anton Bauer, composer, dies at 83.   

1809  Adolf Friedrich Hesse, composer   

1809  Ignacy Potocki, Polish Foreign Minister (constitution), dies   

1811  Thomas Gautier, writer.   

1813  Battle of Kulm: French forces defeated by Austrian-Prussian-Russian alliance.   

1813  Princess Mathilde of Bavaria d. 1862.   

1820  James Wilson, Strathaven Radical, hung and beheaded at Glasgow Green for his part in the 1820 Rising. A crowd of 20000 sympathetic to Wilson, witnessed the event. James Wilson, on his way to the scaffold, remarked to the hangman Thomas Moore - "Did ye evir see sic a crowd, Tammas?"   

1820  George Frederick Root, composer   

1826  Theodor Zwetler, composer, dies at 67   

1831  Charles Darwin refuses to travel with HMS Beagle   

1835  Melbourne, Australia is founded.   

1836  The city of Houston is founded by Augustus Chapman Allen and John Kirby Allen.   

1837  Ellen Lewis Herndon Arthur, 1st lady (1881-85)   

1842  Victor Alphonse Duvernoy, composer.   

1843  The inaugural black participation in national political convention (Liberty Party)   

1843  1st blacks participation in natl political convention (Liberty Party).   

1844  Friedrich Ratzel, German social-geographer (Lebensraum)   

1844  Francis Baily, English astronomer/mathematician (Baily's Beads), dies   

1849  Joseph Mallaby Dent, Dutch publisher   

1850  Honolulu, Hawaii is recorded as becoming a city   

1852  Jacobus Henricus van 't Hoff, Neth, physical chemist (Nobel 1901)   

1854  John Fremont issues proclamation freeing slaves of Missouri rebels   

1860  1st British tram opens (Birkenhead).   

1862  Battle of 2nd Manassas-Pope defeated by Lee-Battle of Richmond, KY.   

1862  Battle of Altamont-Confederates beat Union forces in Tennessee   

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1334  Pedro: The cruel, king of castilia & leon   

1334  Pedro of castile: Pedro of castile (d. 1369)   

1377  Shah rukh: Ruler of persia and transoxonia   

1609  Artus i quellinus "the old": Flemish sculptor, baptised   

1687  Francesco maria vallara: Composer   

1693  Jacobus nozeman: Dutch composer/organist   

1705  David hartley: English philosopher   

1720  Samuel whitbread: English brewer   

0524  Death of Chlodomer: King of the france to orleans,   

0526  Theodorik the great: King of ostrogoten (b. 454)   

1181  Death of Alexander iii: [orlando bandinelli], italian pope (1159-81),   

1482  Death of Louis van bourbon: Prince-bishop of luik (cluppelslagers),   

1483  Death of Louis xi: King of france (1461-83),   

1529  Death of Juan del encina: Composer,   

1580  Death of Emanuel philibert: Duke of savoy/governor of netherlands,   

1617  Rose of lima: Peruvian saint (b. 1586)