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  • Kavala, Ottoman Empire (Present-Day Kavala, Greece)
    Saturday Mar 4, 1769
    Muhammad Ali of Egypt

    Birth

    Kavala, Ottoman Empire (Present-Day Kavala, Greece)
    Saturday Mar 4, 1769

    Muhammad Ali was born in Kavala, in Macedonia, Rumeli Eyalet of the Ottoman Empire, today a city in Greece, to an Albanian family from Korça. He was the second son of Albanian tobacco and shipping merchant named Ibrahim Agha, who also served as an Ottoman commander of a small unit in Kavala.




  • Churchill
    Thursday Mar 23, 1769

    William Smith created the first detailed nationwide geological map

    Churchill
    Thursday Mar 23, 1769

    The first nationwide geological map (Strata Identified by Organized Fossils) was created by William Smith, who was born in Churchill, Oxfordshire.




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