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Gottfried Heinrich Bach (born: 26 February 1724 – funeral: 12 February 1763) was a child of Johann Sebastian Bach and the firstborn son of his second wife Anna Magdalena Bach. He was born in Leipzig , where his parents had moved the year before his birth.
February 5 – Mary Cowper, English diarist (born 1685) February 12 – Elkanah Settle, English poet and dramatist (born 1648) [16] March 19 – Johann Christian Thomae, German historian and biographer (born 1668) [17] July 11 – Delarivier Manley, writer, playwright and pamphleteer (born c. 1663) [18] August 15 – Manko, Japanese poet (year ...
Randolph was born on the Turkey Island Plantation along the James River in Henrico County, Virginia around 1691. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] He married Jane Bolling (1703–1766), [ 6 ] John Bolling 's daughter, in 1724 and the couple had seven children who reached adulthood: [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 7 ] [ nb 2 ]
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1724 was a leap year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar and a leap year starting on Wednesday of the Julian calendar, the 1724th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 724th year of the 2nd millennium, the 24th year of the 18th century, and the 5th year of the 1720s decade. As of the start of 1724, the ...
February 12 – William Mason (died 1797), English poet, editor and gardener; February 25 – Karl Wilhelm Ramler (died 1798), German poet; March 20 – Duncan Ban MacIntyre (died 1812), Scottish Gaelic poet; May 18 – Magtymguly Pyragy (died c. 1807), Turkmen spiritual leader and poet; July 2 – Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock (died 1803 ...
James Rivington (1724 – July 4, 1802) was an English-born American journalist who published a Loyalist newspaper in the American colonies called Rivington's Gazette.He was driven out of New York by the Sons of Liberty, but was very likely a member of the American Culper Spy Ring, which provided the Continental Army with military intelligence from British-occupied New York.
1753 – In Sweden February 17 is followed by March 1 as the country moves from the Julian calendar to the Gregorian calendar. [ 8 ] 1801 – United States presidential election : A tie in the Electoral College between Thomas Jefferson and Aaron Burr is resolved when Jefferson is elected President of the United States and Burr Vice President by ...