Historical Events In January - 28

1813  Jan Joseph Rosler, composer, dies at 41 on January - 28.   

1814  Stendahl's 1st book is published on this day in history.   

1815  On January - 28 andrew Jackson Hamilton, Brig General (Union volunteers), died in 1875   

1817  On this day in history friedrich Ludwig Emilius Kunzen, composer, dies at 55   

1818  George Sewall Boutwell, MC (Union), died in 1905 on January - 28.   

1819  Sir Stamford Raffles first lands in Singapore much later a famous Hotel bears his name on January - 28.   

1819  Sir Stamford Raffles 1st lands in Singapore on this day in history.   

1820  Russian expedition led by Fabian Gottlieb von Bellingshausen and Mikhail Petrovich Lazarev discovered the Antarctic continent approaching the Antarctic coast on January - 28.   

1821  Bellingshausen discovers Alexander Island off Antarctica on this day in history.   

1822  Alexander MacKenzie, (L) 2nd PM of Canada (1873-78) on this day in history.   

1824  On this day in history william Kneass becomes 3rd US chief engraver (1824-40)   

1825  George Edward Pickett, Major General (Confederate Army), died in 1875 on this day in history.   

1828  On January - 28 michel Abeloos, Flemish sculptor   

1829  On January - 28 william Burke, murderer/body snatcher, executed in Edinburgh   

1830  On January - 28 the opera "Fra Diavolo" is produced (Paris)   

1830  Opera "Fra Diavolo," premieres in Paris on January - 28.   

1831  On this day in history henry Brevard Davidson, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1899   

1832  Franz Wullner, composer on January - 28.   

1833  On January - 28 charles George Gordon, London, general (China, Khartoum)   

1838  On this day in history aleksandr I Polezjajev, Russian poet (Sasjka), dies at 33 [NS]   

1841  The birth of Sir Henry Morton Stanley, Sent to find the missing Dr Livingstone on this day in history.   

1841  On this day in history henry Stanley, Engld, journalist/explorer (found Livingston in Africa)   

1846  Battle of Allwal, Brits beat Sikhs in Punjab (India) on January - 28.   

1848  On this day in history king of Naples grants his subjects a constitution   

1851  Northwestern University (Chicago) chartered on January - 28.   

1853  Jose Martí y Perez, Cuba, poet/essayist/politician on January - 28.   

1855  On this day in history the first locomotive runs from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean on the Panama Railway.   

1855  William Seward Burroughs, NY, inventor (recording adding machine) on this day in history.   

1858  John Brown organized raid on Arsenal at Harper's Ferry on January - 28.   

1860  On January - 28 britain formally returns Mosquito Coast to Nicaragua   

1864  Battle of New Bern, NC on this day in history.   

1864  Herbert Akroyd Stuart, English engineer on January - 28.   

1865  President Jefferson Davis names 3 peace commissioners on this day in history.   

1865  On January - 28 pres Jefferson Davis names 3 peace commissioners   

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1225  On January - 28 birth of saint Thomas Aquinas (d. 1274)   

1312  On this day in history birth of queen Joan II of Navarre (d. 1349)   

1457  Henry VII, Pembroke Castle, 1st Tudor king of England (1485-1509) was born on January - 28.   

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

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

1582  On January - 28 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  On January - 28 birth of giovanni Alfonso Borelli, Naples, mathematician/astronomer   

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  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  Death of Earl of Joigny, burned at royal ball on this day in history.   

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

1528  On this day in history philips of Cleve, ruler of Ravenstein, dies