Page 2: Historical Events In January - 28

1621  Paulus V, [Camillo Borghese], 233rd pope (1605-21), dies at 68 on this day in history.   

1624  Sir Thomas Warner founds the first British colony in the Caribbean, on Saint Kitts on January - 28.   

1627  Alfonso Marsh, composer on January - 28.   

1645  On this day in history gottfried Vopelius, composer   

1687  Johannes Hevelius, astronomer (star cataloger), dies on 76th birthday on this day in history.   

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

1689  English parliament ends king Charles II reign on January - 28.   

1691  Johann Balthasar Konig, composer on this day in history.   

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 this day in history hermanus Noordkerk, Dutch lawyer   

1706  John Baskerville, English printer (typeface inventor) on this day in history.   

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

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

1722  On this day in history johann Ernst Bach, composer   

1724  On January - 28 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  Peter I "the Great" Romanov, czar of Russia, dies at 52 [NS=Feb 8] on this day in history.   

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

1754  Ludvig Holberg, Danish lawyer/writer (Hendrig og Pernille), dies at 69 on this day in history.   

1756  Hans Adolf Friedrich von Eschstruth, composer on this day in history.   

1757  On January - 28 antonio Bartolomeo Bruni, composer   

1760  On January - 28 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 January - 28 peter the Great, Russia   

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

1784  On this day in history george HG earl of Aberdeen, English secretary of State   

1787  On this day in history philadelphia's Free Africa Society organizes   

1788  On January - 28 lord Gordon found guilty of libel of queen of France   

1788  Captain Arthur Phillip forms English colony at Botany Bay, Sydney on this day in history.   

1807  On this day in history london's Pall Mall is first street lit by gaslight   

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

1810  Andrew Hofer, Tyrolian rebel against French & Bavarians, shot dead on this day in history.   

1813  Pride and Prejudice is first published in the United Kingdom on January - 28.   

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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 January - 28 birth of henry VII, Pembroke Castle, 1st Tudor king of England (1485-1509)   

1540  On January - 28 birth of ludolph van Ceulen, German mathematician (d. 1610)   

1578  On January - 28 birth of cornelis Haga, Dutch lawyer/ambassador to Constantinople (1611-39)   

1582  On this day in history birth of john Barclay, Scottish satirist/poet (Euphormio's Satyricon)   

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 January - 28.   

0814  On January - 28 charlemagne, German emperor/Roman Emperor (800-814), dies at 71   

1061  On January - 28 death of duke SpytihnÄ›v II of Bohemia (b. 1031)   

1119  Gelasius II, [Giovannis Caetani], pope (1118-19), dies on this day in history.   

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

1271  Death of Isabella of Aragon, queen of Philip III of France (b. 1247) on this day in history.   

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

1443  Death of Robert le Maçon, Chancellor of France on January - 28.   

1528  On January - 28 philips of Cleve, ruler of Ravenstein, dies