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Dashed right edge = ongoing beyond February 1769
Events in February 1769 3
1693 – 1769Pope Clement XIII (1693-1769)Died 2 February 1769, aged 75Carlo Rezzonico of Venice was elected pope in 1758. He defended the Jesuits against expulsion by Portugal, France and Spain, and he died suddenly just as the Catholic powers were demanding that the order be suppressed.
1693 – 1769Pope Clement XIII (1693-1769)Died 2 February 1769, aged 75Carlo Rezzonico of Venice was elected pope in 1758. He defended the Jesuits against expulsion by Portugal, France and Spain, and he died suddenly just as the Catholic powers were demanding that the order be suppressed.
1769 – 1844Ivan Krylov (1769-1844)Died 21 November 1844, aged 75Russia's best-known fabulist. Many lines from his fables, which satirised human vice and Russian society, became Russian proverbs.