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What Happened in January 1737

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Famous Birthdays

  • Jan 12 Brizio Petrucci, Italian composer, born in Massalom-barda, Ravenna, Papal States (d. 1838)
  • Jan 19 Jacques-Henri Bernardin de Saint-Pierre, French writer (Paul et Virginie), born in Le Havre, France (d. 1814)

John Hancock (1737-1793)

Jan 23 American merchant and statesman who was 1st to sign the Declaration of Independence, born in Braintree, Massachusetts

John Hancock

Thomas Paine (1737-1809)

Jan 29 English American writer and political essayist (Age of Reason, Common Sense), born in Thetford, England

Thomas Paine

Born in 1737

Famous Deaths

  • Jan 29 George Hamilton, 1st Earl of Orkney, British soldier (b. 1666)


What Happened in 1737

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