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Countess Augusta Reuss of Ebersdorf
1757Jan, 19

Countess Augusta Reuss of Ebersdorf

Countess Augusta Reuss of Ebersdorf (d. 1831)
Countess Augusta Caroline Sophie Reuss-Ebersdorf (German: Gräfin Reuß zu Ebersdorf) (19 January 1757 – 16 November 1831), was by marriage the Duchess of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld. She was the maternal grandmother of Queen Victoria and the paternal grandmother of Albert, Prince Consort.

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    Robert-François Damiens

    Louis XV of France survives an assassination attempt by Robert-François Damiens, the last person to be executed in France by drawing and quartering, the traditional and gruesome form of capital punishment used for regicides.
  • 6May

    Christopher Smart's asylum confinement

    English poet Christopher Smart is admitted into St Luke's Hospital for Lunatics in London, beginning his six-year confinement to mental asylums.
  • 5Dec

    Battle of Leuthen

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