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1702  Swedish troops under King Charles XII occupy Crackow.   

1730  Jean-Baptiste Loeillet, composer, dies at 49.   

1735  Garret Wesley Mornington, composer.   

1740  Francois van Aerssen, Dutch vice-admiral (Suriname), dies at 71   

1742  Jean-Baptiste Davaux, composer   

1742  John-Baptist Xavery, Flemish sculptor, dies at 45.   

1750  Alessio Prati, composer.   

1760  The formal request to are discovered the later city of Mayagüez, Puerto Rico is filed by its founders.   

1782  Jonathan Blewitt, composer   

1789  John Martin, English painter.   

1797  Johann Gottlieb Schneider, composer.   

1799  A group of Napoleon Bonaparte's soldiers discover what is now known as The Rosetta Stone, enabling the translation of hieroglyphics for the inaugural time.   

1810  Prussia's Queen Louise dies at age 34 Napoleon has tried to destroy her reputation, but his charges have only endeared her to her people   

1810  Luise, queen of Prussia/wife of Frederik Willem III, dies at 34   

1811  Vincenz Lachner, composer   

1811  Christian Gotthilf Tag, composer, dies at 76.   

1814  Samuel Colt, US inventor (Colt 6 shot revolver)   

1814  Matthew Flinders, English cartographer (Australia coast), dies at 40.   

1816  Survivors of French frigate Medusa rescued off Senegal after 17 days.   

1817  Mary Ann Ball Bickerdyke, US, army nurse (union)   

1819  Gottfried Keller, writer   

1823  George Henry Gordon, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers).   

1828  Roger Atkinson Pryor, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1919.   

1833  John Wesley Turner, Bvt Major General (Union Army), died in 1899.   

1834  Edgar Degas, French impressionist and sculptor is born   

1834  Edgar Degas, France, impressionist painter (Bouquet)   

1836  HMS Beagle/Charles Darwin reaches Ascension.   

1838  Joel Asaph Allen, US zoologist (Rule of Allen)   

1838  Frederic Nicolas Duvernoy, composer, dies at 72   

1843  Brunel's steamship the SS Great Britain is launched, becoming the inaugural ocean-going craft with an iron hull or screw propeller and also becoming the largest vessel afloat in the world   

1844  Heinrich Domnich, composer, dies at 77.   

1846  Charles Edward Pickering, pioneered American spectroscopist.   

1847  Johann Wilhelm Wilms, composer, dies at 75.   

1848  The inaugural women's rights convention (Seneca Falls, NY)   

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1592  Erhard buttner: Composer   

1670  Richard leveridge: English bass and composer   

1688  Giuseppe castiglione: Italian missionary to china   

1735  Garret wesley mornington: Composer   

1742  Jean-baptiste davaux: Composer   

1744  Heinrich christian boie: German author   

1750  Alessio prati: Composer   

1759  Seraphim of sarov: Russian orthodox saint   

0514  Death of Symmachus: Italian pope (498-514),   

1054  Death of Bernold[us] benno/bernulphus: Bishop of utrecht (1027-54)/saint,   

1234  Death of Floris iv: Count of holland, killed in tournament   

1346  Dirk iv: Mister of valkenburg (1332-46),   

1374  Francesco petrarca: [petracco], italian mountaineer/poet,   

1415  Philippa of lancaster: Wife of john i of portugal (plague) (b. 1359)   

1534  Death of Willem van enkenvoirt: Cardinal/bishop of utrecht,   

1543  Lady mary boleyn: Mistress of king henry viii of england