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Year of the Earth- sheep己未( at the beginning of earth - horse戊午)
Syria: 1870/71 ( the year in October )
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- 4.3 More death unknown
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- In Württemberg, a compulsory education is set in the great church order, however, applies only to the male part of the population.
America
- With Pensacola in Florida the first European settlement on the territory of the United States is founded, which is destroyed, however, a little later by a storm.
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Fine Arts
The Dutch Renaissance painter Pieter Bruegel the Elder painted the two oil painting The Battle Between Carnival and Lent and The Dutch Proverbs.
The Dutch Proverbs