There are 5 250 Years Celebrations in 2025:
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(-) 250 Years Ago Today Sunday 8th of January 1775 Printer and type designer John Baskerville dies of unknown causes at the age of 69 in Easy Hill, Birmingham, West Midlands, United Kingdom. |
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(+) 250 Years Ago Today Friday 20th of January 1775 Physicist and mathematician André-Marie Ampère is born in Lyon, Saint-Nizier, Rhône-Alpes, France. |
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(+) 250 Years Ago Today Sunday 23rd of April 1775 Romantic landscape painter William Joseph Mallord Turner is born in Maiden Lane, London, Covent Garden, Greater London, United Kingdom. It is generally believed Turner was born between late April and early May. Turner himself claimed he was born on 23 April but there is no proof. |
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(+) 250 Years Ago Today Sunday 23rd of July 1775 Criminal and criminalist Eugène François Vidocq known for founding the first known private detective agency is born in 222 Rue du Mirroir-de-Venise, Arras, Nord-Pas-de-Calais, France. |
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(+) 250 Years Ago Today Saturday 16th of December 1775 Writer Jane Austen is born in Steventon, Hampshire, United Kingdom. |