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Premiere of "Ottone"
Jan 12 George Frideric Handel's opera "Ottone" premieres at the King's Theatre London
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- Jan 1 Christian Friedrich Gregor, Moravian composer and bishop, born in Dirsdorf, Silesia (d. 1801)
- Jan 11 Prithvi Narayan Shah, began the unification of modern Nepal (d. 1774)
- Jan 12 Samuel Langdon, American college educator (d. 1797)
- Jan 27 Johann Andreas Cramer, German preacher (Court Preacher to King Frederick V of Denmark), born in Jönstadt (d. 1788)
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