February1762

What Happened in February 1762

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Music Premiere

Feb 2 Thomas Arne's opera "Artaxerxes" premieres in London

Thomas Arne — Composer Thomas Arne

Feb 12 British fleet occupies Martinique

Famous Birthdays

Feb 19 Friedrich Franz Hurka, Czech tenor and composer (d. 1805)

Famous Deaths

Feb 11 Johann Tobias Krebs, composer, dies at 71
Feb 12 Laurent Belissen, French composer, dies at 68
Feb 20 Tobias Mayer, German astronomer, dies at 38

Famous People by their Chinese Zodiac Animal

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