December 16: Significance, Events, and How to Celebrate Natural Disasters & Epidemics

1734  Georg Peter Weimar, composer   

1740  Prussian Libya falls to Silezie   

1748  Ferdinand-Philippe-Joseph Staes, composer   

1761  Russian army occupies Kolberg.   

1765  Peter Frederick Haldimand, Swiss military officer and surveyor.   

1767  Van Ritter von Glucks opera "Alceste" premiers   

1770  Ludwig Van Beethoven was born on Dec. 16, 1770 (baptized on Dec. 17, 1770)   

1770  Ludwig van Beethoven, Bonn Germany, composer (5th Symphony, Ode to Joy)   

1773  Big tea party in Boston harbor-Indians welcome   

1773  Boston Tea Party' , when the 'Sons of Liberty' dumped 18000 worth of tea in the Boston harbor   

1773  The Boston Tea Party occurs when American colonists board a British ship and dump overboard more than 300 chests of tea to protest high taxes   

1773  Big tea party in Boston harbor-indians welcome (Boston Tea Party)   

1774  Francois Quesnay, French personal physician of Louis XIV, dies at 80   

1775  Jane Austen, English novelist is born.   

1775  Francois-Adrien Boieldieu, composer   

1777  Janos Fusz, composer.   

1781  Georg Simon Lohlein, composer, dies at 56   

1783  Johann Adolf Hasse, Dutch operatic composer (Sesostrate), dies at 84.   

1790  Ludwig August Lebrun, composer, dies at 38   

1809  Marriage between Napoleon Bonaparte and Josephine disolved after thirteen years.   

1809  Napoleon Bonaparte and the Empress Josephine are divorced by an act of the French Senate   

1809  Napoleon Bonaparte divorces Empress Josephine by French Senate.   

1809  Peter P van Bosse, Dutch attorney/liberal minister of Finance   

1811  Most violent and prolonged quakes in US begins in Midwest region   

1811  Earthquake hits New Madrid, Missouri, causing widespread damage.   

1812  William Grose, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1900.   

1816  Vincenzo Galeotti, [Tomazelli], Ital dancer/choreographer, dies at 73   

1817  Leaders of Molukkas uprising hanged in Ambon.   

1819  Robert Selden Garnett, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1861   

1822  Charles Edward Horsley, composer   

1824  Great North Holland Canal opens.   

1825  Henry Heth, Major General (Confederate Army), died in 1899   

1826  Benjamin W. Edwards rides into Mexican controlled Nacogdoches, Texas and declares himself ruler of the Republic of Fredonia   

1827  John A C Oudemans, Dutch geographer/astronomer.   

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