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1750 Giuseppe Sammartini, composer, dies at 55. 

1755 Lisbon earthquake results in the deaths of more than 50000. 

1757 Antonio Canova, Italian sculptor is born 

1757 Antonio Canova, Italian sculptor 

1761 Antonin Josef Alois Volanek, composer 

1762 Spencer Perceval, (Tory), British PM (1809-12) 

1765 Stamp Act went into effect in the British colonies. 

1765 Stamp Act comes into force in British colonies 

1768 Pierre van Maldere, composer, dies at 39 

1776 San Juan Capistrano Mission founded in California 

1776 Mission San Juan Capistrano founded in California. 

1782 Viscount Goderich, (Tory), British PM (1827-28). 

1783 Continental Army dissolved; George Washington's "Farewell Address". 

1784 Maryland grants citizenship to Lafayette and his descendants 

1784 Maryland grants citizenship to Lafayette and his descendents 

1787 1st free school in NYC (African Free School) opens 

1788 Johann Samuel Schroeter, composer, dies. 

1798 Benjamin Lee, Baronet Guinness, Irish brewer/Dublin mayor. 

1800 John Adams is the inaugural President to live in the White House. 

1800 1st president to live in white house (John Adams). 

1802 Delegates meet at Chillicothe, Ohio to form a state constitutional convention. 

1805 Alessandro Nini, composer. 

1810 Georg Anton Kreusser, composer, dies at 64. 

1814 Congress of Vienna opens to re-draw the European political map after the defeat of France, in the Napoleonic Wars. 

1815 Crawford Williamson Long, surgeon/pioneer (use of ether). 

1817 Giovanni Calisto Andrea Zanotti, composer, dies at 79. 

1825 Joseph Benjamin Palmer, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1890. 

1825 Rodrigo Ferreira da Costa, composer, dies at 49 

1832 Johann Gottfred Matthison-Hansen, composer. 

1834 1st published reference to poker (as Mississippi riverboat game). 

1835 Godfrey Weitzel, (Union volunteers Major general, died in 1884). 

1841 Antoine PFGdV Celles, Belgium/Dutch/French MP, dies 

1844 August Ferdinand Haeser, composer, dies at 45. 

1848 1st US woman's medical school opens (Boston). 

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