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1831  Edgar Allen Poe removed from West Point military academy   

1831  Vincenzo Bellini's opera "La Sonnambula", premieres in Milan   

1831  Bellini's opera "La Sonnambula," premieres in Milan.   

1831  Friedrich C K von Bodelschwingh, German theologist (Home Mission)   

1834  Toronto incorporated with William Lyon Mackenzie as its inaugural mayor   

1834  Toronto incorporated with William Lyon Mackenzie as its 1st mayor.   

1835  Charles Ewing, Brig General (Union volunteers), died in 1883   

1836  3000 Mexicans beat 182 Texans at the Alamo, after 13 day fight   

1836  Frontiersman Davy Crocket dies as the Alamo falls to Mexican troops, ending a 13-day siege in San Antonio, TX.   

1836  HMS Beagle/Darwin reaches King George's Sound, Australia.   

1836  The seige at the Alamo, Texas, ends after 12 days with only a handul of survivors   

1836  Davy Crockett, US pioneer (Alamo), killed in battle at 49   

1838  Franz Grillparzer's "Weh dem, der Lugt," premieres in Vienna   

1843  Artur Napoleao dos Santos, composer   

1844  Nicolai Rimski-Korsakov, composer (Flight of the Bumble Bee) (NS 3/18).   

1846  Nikoli A Poveloi, Russian writer/publisher, dies at 49 [NS].   

1851  Dion Boucicault's "Love in a Maze," premieres in London   

1851  Alexander Aliabiev, composer, dies at 63.   

1852  Joseph Bayer, composer   

1853  The Verdi opera La Traviata opens in Venice, Italy.   

1853  Giuseppe Verdi's Opera "La Traviata," premieres in Venice.   

1854  Caspar GC Reinwardt, German/Dutch biologist, dies at 80   

1855  Gustave Flaubert writes goodbye to Louise Colet.   

1857  Dred Scott Decision Supreme Court rules slaves cannot be citizens   

1857  The US Supreme Court rules that slave Dred Scott cannot sue for his freedom in federal court   

1857  Dred Scott Decision: Supreme Court rules slaves cannot be citizens   

1861  Provisionary Confederate Congress establishes Confederate Army.   

1862  Battle of Pea Ridge AR (Elkhorn Tavern)   

1862  Battle of Pea Ridge, AR (Elkhorn Tavern).   

1865  Battle of Natural Bridge, Florida.   

1865  President Lincoln's 2nd Inaugural Ball.   

1867  Wiktor Kazynski, composer, dies at 54.   

1869  Dmitri Mendeleev presents the inaugural periodic table to the Russian Chemical Society.   

1870  Oscar Straus, Vienna Austria, composer (Ein Walzertraum)   

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1340  John of gaunt: 1st duke of lancaster   

1405  Johan ii: King of castille   

1405  King john ii of castile: King john ii of castile (d. 1454)   

1459  Jacob fugger: German banker/merchant   

1475  Michelangelo: Italian painter (david)   

1483  Francesco guicciardini: Ital attorney/president of romagna   

1492  Jean luis vives: Spanish theory/humanist/reformer   

1495  Luigi alamanni: Italian poet (opere toscane, la coltivazione)   

0766  Death of Chrodegang: Church reformer/bishop of mainz,   

1252  Death of Saint rose of viterbo: Italian saint (b. 1235)   

1490  Ivan the young: Ruler of tver (b. 1458)   

1531  Pedrarias dávila: Spanish conquistador   

1583  Death of Zacharias ursinus: German theologist (heidelberger),   

1615  Death of Pieter both: Dutch admiral/1st gov-gen (east in   

1616  Francis beaumont: Elizabethan playwright,   

1627  Krzysztof zbaraski: Polish statesman (b. 1580)