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1740
1740 • George Whitefield founds the Bethesda Orphanage. |
1756
Nov 22
Age: 16y
marriageMichael Plaster Wilmington, Delaware, USA ⇓ 3 Sources ⇓ |
1756 • Frederick II of Prussia forces his country's peasants to grow the unpopular and obscure potato. |
1813
Aug 26
Age: 73y
birth of childMichael Plaster Martin County, Indiana, USA ⇓ 5 Sources ⇓ |
1813 • November 5 – Persia and Russia sign the Treaty of Gulistan of 1813 at the end of the Russo-Persian War by which Persia (Iran) loses all its territories to the north of Aras River to the Russians. |
1804
Age: 64y
1804 • Coronation of Napoleon I: At the cathedral of Notre Dame de Paris, Napoleon crowns himself as the first Emperor of the French in a thousand years. Witnessing this, Simón Bolívar dedicates himself to liberating Venezuela from Spanish rule. |