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What Happened in January 1696

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Historical Events

  • Jan 31 Revolt by undertakers after funeral reforms (Amsterdam)

Famous Birthdays

  • Jan 5 Giuseppe Galli-Bibiena, Italian architect and painter, born in Parma, Duchy of Parma and Piacenza (now Italy) (d. 1757)
Born in 1696

Famous Deaths

  • Jan 8 Michael de Ronghe, composer, dies at 75
  • Jan 11 Charles Albanel, French missionary explorer in Canada (1st to reach Hudson Bay overland), dies (b. 1613 or 1616)
  • Jan 29 Ivan V, disabled co-Tsar of Russia (1682-89), dies at 29 (O.S.)

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