Page 2: Historical Events In February - 17

1747  On February - 17 narciso Casanovas, composer   

1752  Friedrich M Klinger, German playwright (Wirrwarr) on February - 17.   

1754  On this day in history jan Jachym Kopriva, composer   

1758  On February - 17 john Pinkerton, Scottish historian   

1766  On this day in history the birth of Thomas Malthus, English economist   

1772  1st partition of Poland-Russia & Prussia, joined later by Austria on this day in history.   

1774  On February - 17 raphaelle Peale, US, painter (After the Rain-1823)   

1776  1st volume of Gibbon's "Decline & Fall of Roman Empire" published on February - 17.   

1781  René-Theophile-Hyacinthe Lannec, France, inventor (stethoscope) on this day in history.   

1791  On February - 17 messier catalogs M83 (spiral galaxy in Hydra)   

1795  Thomas Seddal harvests 8.3-kg potato from his garden Chester, England on this day in history.   

1796  Giovanni Pacini, composer on February - 17.   

1796  On February - 17 james Macpherson, poet, dies   

1801  On this day in history house breaks electoral college tie, chooses Jefferson pres over Burr   

1804  Samuel Read Anderson, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1883 on February - 17.   

1814  On February - 17 battle of Mormans.   

1815  Franz Gotz, composer, dies at 59 on February - 17.   

1816  On February - 17 friedrich Wilhelm Markull, composer   

1817  On this day in history 1st US city lit by gas (Baltimore)   

1818  Baron Karl von Drais de Sauerbrun patents "draisine" (early bicycle) on February - 17.   

1820  Henri Vieuxtemps, Verviers Belgium, composer/teacher (Brussels Cons) on this day in history.   

1824  On February - 17 william Farrar "Baldy" Smith, Mjr Gen (Union volunteers), died in 1903   

1827  On this day in history johann Heinrich Pestalozzi, Swiss educator, dies at 81   

1831  Francisco Salvador Daniel, composer on this day in history.   

1836  HMS Beagle/Charles Darwin leaves Tasmania on February - 17.   

1837  On February - 17 francis Jay Herron, Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1902   

1841  On this day in history dutch ex-king Willem I marries Henriette d'Oultremont de Wégimont   

1841  On February - 17 ferdinando Carulli, composer, dies at 70   

1844  On this day in history a Montgomery Ward, found mail-order business (Montgomery Ward)   

1847  William Collins, landscape painter, dies on this day in history.   

1848  Toscane gets liberal Constitution on February - 17.   

1849  Selwyn Image, Bodiam Sussex, painter on this day in history.   

1850  On this day in history anton Urspruch, composer   

1852  Micha Joseph Levenson, Hebrew poet, dies on February - 17.   

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1444  Rudolf Agricola, [Roelof Huysman], Dutch humanist/organist was born on February - 17.   

1490  On this day in history birth of charles de Bourbon, officer/governor (Lombardy)   

1519  Francis, Duke of Guise, French soldier and politician (d. 1563) was born on this day in history.   

1581  Fausto Poli, Italian Catholic priest (d. 1653) was born on this day in history.   

1583  On February - 17 birth of j Henry Alting, Dutch theologist   

1646  On this day in history birth of pierre Le Pesant, sieur de Boisguilbert, French economist (d. 1714)   

1653  On this day in history birth of arcangelo Corelli, Fusignano Italy, violinist/comp (Concerto Grossi)   

1667  Georg Bronner, composer was born on February - 17.   

0364  Flavius Jovianus, Christian emperor of Rome (363-64), dies at about 32 on February - 17.   

0440  Death of Mesrop Mashtots on this day in history.   

0956  Hugo the Great, earl of Paris/duke of Francia, dies at about 55 on this day in history.   

1339  Death of Otto, Duke of Austria (b. 1301) on February - 17.   

1371  On February - 17 death of ivan Alexander of Bulgaria   

1596  On this day in history death of friedrich Sylburg, German classical scholar (b. 1536)   

1600  Death of Giordano Bruno, advocate of Copernican theory, burned at stake on February - 17.   

1609  Death of Ferdinando I de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany (b. 1549) on this day in history.