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What Happened in January 1775

Historical Events

  • Jan 11 Francis Salvador becomes 1st Jew elected to office in America (SC)
  • Jan 17 9 old women burnt as witches for causing bad harvests in Kalisk, Poland
  • Jan 17 Richard Brinsley Sheridan's play "The Rivals" premieres in London
  • Jan 22 Marshal Oscar von Lubomirski expels Jews from Warsaw, Poland
  • Jan 25 Americans drag cannon up hill to fight British (Gun Hill Road, Bronx)

Famous Birthdays

  • Jan 20 André-Marie Ampère, French physicist (d. 1836)
  • Jan 21 Manuel Garcia, composer

Person of interestFriedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling

Jan 27 Friedrich von Schelling, German philosopher (Views on Christianity), born in Leonberg, Württemberg, Holy Roman Empire (d. 1854)

Philosopher Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling
Philosopher
Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling
  • Jan 27 Manuel del Popolo Vicente Rodriguez Garcia, Spanish tenor/composer
  • Jan 30 Walter Savage Landor, English poet & writer (Imaginary Conversations), born in Warwick, England (d. 1864)

Famous Deaths

  • Jan 8 John Baskerville, English printer/type designer, dies at 68
  • Jan 10 Jemeljan Pugatshov, Russian kosak leader/"Tsar Peter III", dies
  • Jan 11 Yemelyan Pugachov, Don Cossack rebel, executed by tsarist Russia
  • Jan 11 Prithvi Narayan Shah, began the unification of modern Nepal (b. 1723)
  • Jan 13 Johann Georg Walch, German theologian, dies at 81
  • Jan 15 Giovanni Battista Sammartini, composer, dies

What Happened in 1775

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