Historical Events In January - 02

1790  Joseph A Feuchtmayer (Feichtmayer), German rococo sculptor, dies on January - 02.  

1791  On this day in history big Bottom massacre in the Ohio Country, marking the beginning of the Northwest Indian War.  

1800  On this day in history free black community of Philadelphia PA petitions Congress to abolish slavery  

1800  On this day in history free black community of Phila petitions Congress to abolish slave  

1801  On this day in history johann C Lavater, Swiss vicar/philosopher, dies at 59  

1803  Gugliemo Libri, [della Somaia], Ital/Fren mathematician/book collector on this day in history.  

1803  Ignaz Franz von Beecke, composer, dies at 69 on January - 02.  

1807  Tomasz Napoleon Nidecki, composer on January - 02.  

1809  On this day in history friedrich Wilhelm Jahns, composer  

1811  US Senator Thomas Pickering is first senator censured (revealed confidential documents communicated by the President of the US) on January - 02.  

1811  On January - 02 uS Sen Thomas Pickering is 1st senator censured (revealed confidential documents communicated by the president of the US)  

1814  Lord Byron completes "The Corsair" on this day in history.  

1818  On this day in history lord Byron completes "Childe Harold's Pilgrimage" (4th canto)  

1822  On this day in history rudolph J E Clausius, Germany, physicist (thermodynamics)  

1830  Henry Kingsley, English/Australian writer on this day in history.  

1831  On this day in history liberator, abolitionist newspaper, begins publishing in Boston  

1831  Justin Winston, historian/librarian (Harvard) on January - 02.  

1832  First Curling club in US (Orchard Lake Curling Club) opens on January - 02.  

1832  1st Curling club in US (Orchard Lake Curling Club) opens on this day in history.  

1833  On January - 02 re-establishment of British rule on the Falklands.  

1835  On this day in history charles Russell Lowell Jr, Brig General (Union volunteers)  

1837  Mili Alexeyevich Balakirev, Nizhny-Novgorod, Russia, composer (Tamara) on January - 02.  

1839  First photo of the Moon (French photographer Louis Daguerre) on January - 02.  

1839  On January - 02 the first ever photographs o  

1839  The first ever photographs of the Moon are taken on this day in history.  

1839  1st photo of the Moon (French photographer Louis Daguerre) on this day in history.  

1842  On January - 02 first US wire suspension bridge for general traffic opens in Pennsylvania  

1842  1st US wire suspension bridge for general traffic opens in Penn on January - 02.  

1842  Amy G C A Bonet-Maury, French reformed theologist on this day in history.  

1843  On January - 02 wagner's opera "Der Fliegende Holländer" premieres, Dresden  

1846  Sandor Erkel, composer on January - 02.  

1849  The first gaslit streets in the province of Quebec are lit in Quebec City on this day in history.  

1857  On January - 02 frederick Opper, cartoonist (Maud, Alphonse & Gaston)  

1860  William C Mills, museum curator (excavated Ohio Indian mounds) on this day in history.  

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1642  Mehmed IV, sultan (Turkey) was born on January - 02.  

1647  On this day in history birth of nathaniel Bacon, leader of Bacon's Rebellion, Va (1676)  

1699  Osman III, sultan (Turkey) was born on this day in history.  

1713  On January - 02 birth of marie Dumesnil, French actress (d. 1803)  

1719  On this day in history birth of jacques-Alexandre Laffon de Ladebat, French shipbuilder (d. 1797)  

1727  James Wolfe, commanded British Army (captured Quebec) was born on this day in history.  

1728  On January - 02 birth of louis Barbiano de Belgioioso, Austrian count/diplomat in Belgium  

1732  On this day in history birth of franz Xaver Brixi, composer  

0017  On this day in history publius Ovidius Naso, Roman poet, dies  

1512  Death of Svante, Regent of Sweden (b. 1460) on this day in history.  

1514  Death of William Smyth, English bishop and statesman (bc. 1460) on this day in history.  

1557  Death of Pontormo, Italian painter (b. 1494) on January - 02.  

1685  On this day in history death of harbottle Grimston, English politician (b. 1603)  

1694  On this day in history death of henry Booth, 1st Earl of Warrington, English politician (b. 1651)  

1726  Domenico Zipoli, composer, dies at 37 on this day in history.  

1740  On January - 02 johann Georg Weichenberger, composer, dies at 63