Page 2: Historical Events In January - 28

1621  On January - 28 paulus V, [Camillo Borghese], 233rd pope (1605-21), dies at 68   

1624  On this day in history sir Thomas Warner founds the first British colony in the Caribbean, on Saint Kitts.   

1627  Alfonso Marsh, composer on January - 28.   

1645  On January - 28 gottfried Vopelius, composer   

1687  Johannes Hevelius, astronomer (star cataloger), dies on 76th birthday on January - 28.   

1688  On this day in history jan Maurits Quinkhard, Dutch portrait painter   

1689  English parliament ends king Charles II reign on this day in history.   

1691  On this day in history johann Balthasar Konig, composer   

1693  Anna "Ivanovna", tsarina of Russia (1730-40) (2/7 NS) on this day in history.   

1697  On January - 28 john Fenwick, English conspirator   

1702  On January - 28 hermanus Noordkerk, Dutch lawyer   

1706  On January - 28 john Baskerville, English printer (typeface inventor)   

1714  Jean-Baptiste Pigalle, French sculptor (Child with Pigeon) on January - 28.   

1717  Mustapha III, Sultan of Turkey (1757-74) on January - 28.   

1722  Johann Ernst Bach, composer on this day in history.   

1724  On this day in history the Russian Academy of Sciences was founded in St. Petersburg by Peter the Great, and implemented in the Senate decree. It was called St. Petersburg Academy of Sciences until 1917.   

1725  On January - 28 peter I "the Great" Romanov, czar of Russia, dies at 52 [NS=Feb 8]   

1754  On this day in history horace Walpole, in a letter to Horace Mann, coins the word serendipity   

1754  On January - 28 ludvig Holberg, Danish lawyer/writer (Hendrig og Pernille), dies at 69   

1756  On January - 28 hans Adolf Friedrich von Eschstruth, composer   

1757  Antonio Bartolomeo Bruni, composer on this day in history.   

1760  On this day in history pownal, Vermont created by Benning Wentworth as one of the New Hampshire Grants.   

1768  On this day in history frederick VI, Danish king (1808-39); lost Norway to Sweden (1814)   

1768  On January - 28 john Wainwright, composer, dies at 44   

1775  On this day in history peter the Great, Russia   

1782  Jean-Baptiste-Bourguignon d'Anville, French geographer, dies at 84 on this day in history.   

1784  George HG earl of Aberdeen, English secretary of State on this day in history.   

1787  On January - 28 philadelphia's Free Africa Society organizes   

1788  Lord Gordon found guilty of libel of queen of France on this day in history.   

1788  Captain Arthur Phillip forms English colony at Botany Bay, Sydney on January - 28.   

1807  London's Pall Mall is first street lit by gaslight on this day in history.   

1807  London's Pall Mall is 1st street lit by gaslight on this day in history.   

1810  On January - 28 andrew Hofer, Tyrolian rebel against French & Bavarians, shot dead   

1813  Pride and Prejudice is first published in the United Kingdom on this day in history.   

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1225  Saint Thomas Aquinas (d. 1274) was born on January - 28.   

1312  Queen Joan II of Navarre (d. 1349) was born on this day in history.   

1457  On this day in history birth of henry VII, Pembroke Castle, 1st Tudor king of England (1485-1509)   

1540  Ludolph van Ceulen, German mathematician (d. 1610) was born on January - 28.   

1578  Cornelis Haga, Dutch lawyer/ambassador to Constantinople (1611-39) was born on January - 28.   

1582  John Barclay, Scottish satirist/poet (Euphormio's Satyricon) was born on this day in history.   

1600  On January - 28 birth of clement IX, [Giulio Rospigliosi], Pistoia, Italy, 238th pope (1667-69)   

1608  Giovanni Alfonso Borelli, Naples, mathematician/astronomer was born on this day in history.   

0814  On this day in history charlemagne, German emperor/Roman Emperor (800-814), dies at 71   

1061  Death of Duke SpytihnÄ›v II of Bohemia (b. 1031) on this day in history.   

1119  On this day in history gelasius II, [Giovannis Caetani], pope (1118-19), dies   

1256  On this day in history willem II, earl of Holland/German emperor (1238, 47-56), dies at 22   

1271  On this day in history death of isabella of Aragon, queen of Philip III of France (b. 1247)   

1393  On January - 28 death of earl of Joigny, burned at royal ball   

1443  On January - 28 death of robert le Maçon, Chancellor of France   

1528  Philips of Cleve, ruler of Ravenstein, dies on this day in history.