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||1799 – Nicholas Callan, Irish priest and physicist (d. 1864) | ||1799 – Nicholas Callan, Irish priest and physicist (d. 1864) | ||
||Louis François Clément Breguet (b. 22 December 1804), was a French physicist and watchmaker, noted for his work in the early days of telegraphy. | |||
||1819 – Pierre Ossian Bonnet, French mathematician and academic (d. 1892) | ||1819 – Pierre Ossian Bonnet, French mathematician and academic (d. 1892) | ||
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1550: Philosopher and academic Cesare Cremonini born. His work will promote rationalism (against revelation) and Aristotelian materialism (against the dualist immortality of the soul) inside scholasticism.
1551: Explorer Cornelis de Houtman publishes "The Legend of Neptune Slaughter, a Tale of Monstrous Disaster from Beyond the Islands and the Oceans of the Furthest East."
1732: Inventor, engineer, and businessman Richard Arkwright born. Later in his life Arkwright will be known as the "father of the modern industrial factory system."
1858: Composer Giacomo Puccini born. He will be called "the greatest composer of Italian opera after Verdi".
1894: The Dreyfus affair begins in France, when Alfred Dreyfus is wrongly convicted of treason.
1920: Lecture by monster ends in riot.