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1794 John Barrien Montgomery, Commander (Union Navy), died in 1873 
1796 Battle of Arcole-Napoleon I's French forces beat Austrians in Italy
1796 Battle of Arcole-Napolean I's French forces beat Austrians in Italy.
1796 Catharina II the Great, empress of Russia (1762-96), dies at 67.
1798 -21) Snow storms in New England, 100s die
1799 Titian Ramsey Peale, US, artist/naturalist (American Ornithology)
1800 Congress held inaugural session in Washington DC
1800 The United States Congress meets for the inaugural time
1800 Congress held 1st session in Wash DC in incompleted Capitol building
1808 Alberich Zwyssig, composer.
1812 Napoleonic Wars: Battle of Krasnoi
1814 Joseph Finegan, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1885
1816 August W Ambros, Austria musicologist (History of Music).
1818 Charlotte Sophia von Mecklenburg-Strelitz, Queen of England, dies.
1826 John McArthur, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1906.
1826 Louise Reichardt, composer, dies at 47
1827 The Delta Phi fraternity, America's oldest continuous social fraternity, was founded at Union College in Schenectady, New York
1831 Ecuador and Venezuela were separated from Greater Colombia
1834 Stephen Hinsdale Weed, Brig General (Union volunteers), died in 1863
1837 David Capriles, director of psychiatry of Monte Christo, Curacao
1839 Giuseppe Verdi's opera "Oberte Conti Di," premieres in Milan
1842 Fugitive slave George Latimer, captured in Boston
1848 Jozef B "Olim" Cannaert, Flemish lawyer, dies
1853 Street signs authorized at San Francisco intersections
1854 Louis HG Lyautey, French minister of Defense (1916-17)
1855 David Livingstone is recorded as becoming the inaugural European to see Victoria Falls in what is now present-day Zambia-Zimbabwe.
1856 On the Sonoita River in present-day southern Arizona, the United States Army establishes Fort Buchanan in order to help control new land acquired in the Gadsden Purchase
1856 William Knyvett, composer, dies at 77.
1858 Origin of Modified Julian Period.
1859 Gerhard Rusenkrone Schjelderup, composer
1862 Confederate Secretary of War George B Randolph steps down
1862 Confederate Sec of War George B Randolph steps down
1862 Alexey Nikolayevich Verstovsky, composer, dies at 63
1863 -Dec 4th) Battle of Knoxville, TN
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