Historical Events In February - 17

1747  On February - 17 narciso Casanovas, composer   

1752  On this day in history friedrich M Klinger, German playwright (Wirrwarr)   

1754  On February - 17 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  Raphaelle Peale, US, painter (After the Rain-1823) on this day in history.   

1776  On this day in history 1st volume of Gibbon's "Decline & Fall of Roman Empire" published   

1781  René-Theophile-Hyacinthe Lannec, France, inventor (stethoscope) on February - 17.   

1791  On this day in history messier catalogs M83 (spiral galaxy in Hydra)   

1795  Thomas Seddal harvests 8.3-kg potato from his garden Chester, England on February - 17.   

1796  On February - 17 giovanni Pacini, composer   

1796  James Macpherson, poet, dies on this day in history.   

1801  House breaks electoral college tie, chooses Jefferson pres over Burr on this day in history.   

1804  On this day in history samuel Read Anderson, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1883   

1814  On February - 17 battle of Mormans.   

1815  On February - 17 franz Gotz, composer, dies at 59   

1816  On February - 17 friedrich Wilhelm Markull, composer   

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

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

1820  Henri Vieuxtemps, Verviers Belgium, composer/teacher (Brussels Cons) on February - 17.   

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

1827  Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi, Swiss educator, dies at 81 on this day in history.   

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

1836  HMS Beagle/Charles Darwin leaves Tasmania on this day in history.   

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

1841  Dutch ex-king Willem I marries Henriette d'Oultremont de Wégimont on this day in history.   

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

1844  On February - 17 a Montgomery Ward, found mail-order business (Montgomery Ward)   

1847  On February - 17 william Collins, landscape painter, dies   

1848  On February - 17 toscane gets liberal Constitution   

1849  On this day in history selwyn Image, Bodiam Sussex, painter   

1850  On February - 17 anton Urspruch, composer   

1852  Micha Joseph Levenson, Hebrew poet, dies on this day in history.   

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1444  On this day in history birth of rudolf Agricola, [Roelof Huysman], Dutch humanist/organist   

1490  Charles de Bourbon, officer/governor (Lombardy) was born on February - 17.   

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

1581  On this day in history birth of fausto Poli, Italian Catholic priest (d. 1653)   

1583  On this day in history birth of j Henry Alting, Dutch theologist   

1646  Pierre Le Pesant, sieur de Boisguilbert, French economist (d. 1714) was born on this day in history.   

1653  Arcangelo Corelli, Fusignano Italy, violinist/comp (Concerto Grossi) was born on this day in history.   

1667  On February - 17 birth of georg Bronner, composer   

0364  On this day in history flavius Jovianus, Christian emperor of Rome (363-64), dies at about 32   

0440  On February - 17 death of mesrop Mashtots   

0956  On this day in history hugo the Great, earl of Paris/duke of Francia, dies at about 55   

1339  On this day in history death of otto, Duke of Austria (b. 1301)   

1371  Death of Ivan Alexander of Bulgaria on this day in history.   

1596  Death of Friedrich Sylburg, German classical scholar (b. 1536) on February - 17.   

1600  Death of Giordano Bruno, advocate of Copernican theory, burned at stake on this day in history.   

1609  On this day in history death of ferdinando I de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany (b. 1549)