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This Day In European History

3rd March

Events
1802: Beethoven's Midnight Sonata is published.
1875: Bizet's Carmen is first performed, in Paris.
1894: British Prime Minister William Gladstone resigns; he is 84.
1918: The Treaty of Brest-Litovsk between Russia, Germany, Austria-Hungary, Bulgaria and Turkey finishes World War One on the Eastern front; Russia is forced to cede Poland, Finland, Ukraine and the Baltic.

Births
1606: Edmund Waller, English poet.
1628: Cornelius Janszoon Speelman, Dutch soldier and colonial governor.
1756: William Godwin, English social thinker.
1845: Georg Cantor, German mathematician.

Deaths
1046: Antipope Sylvester III.
1792: Robert Adam, Scottish architect.

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