Page 2: Historical Events In January - 02

1790  On this day in history joseph A Feuchtmayer (Feichtmayer), German rococo sculptor, dies   

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

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  On this day in history gugliemo Libri, [della Somaia], Ital/Fren mathematician/book collector   

1803  On this day in history ignaz Franz von Beecke, composer, dies at 69   

1807  Tomasz Napoleon Nidecki, composer on January - 02.   

1809  Friedrich Wilhelm Jahns, composer on this day in history.   

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

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

1814  On January - 02 lord Byron completes "The Corsair"   

1818  Lord Byron completes "Childe Harold's Pilgrimage" (4th canto) on January - 02.   

1822  On January - 02 rudolph J E Clausius, Germany, physicist (thermodynamics)   

1830  On this day in history henry Kingsley, English/Australian writer   

1831  Liberator, abolitionist newspaper, begins publishing in Boston on January - 02.   

1831  On January - 02 justin Winston, historian/librarian (Harvard)   

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

1832  On January - 02 1st Curling club in US (Orchard Lake Curling Club) opens   

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

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

1837  On this day in history mili Alexeyevich Balakirev, Nizhny-Novgorod, Russia, composer (Tamara)   

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

1839  On this day in history the first ever photographs o   

1839  On this day in history the first ever photographs of the Moon are taken   

1839  On January - 02 1st photo of the Moon (French photographer Louis Daguerre)   

1842  First US wire suspension bridge for general traffic opens in Pennsylvania on January - 02.   

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

1842  On January - 02 amy G C A Bonet-Maury, French reformed theologist   

1843  Wagner's opera "Der Fliegende Holländer" premieres, Dresden on January - 02.   

1846  On this day in history sandor Erkel, composer   

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

1857  Frederick Opper, cartoonist (Maud, Alphonse & Gaston) on this day in history.   

1860  William C Mills, museum curator (excavated Ohio Indian mounds) on January - 02.   

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1642  On this day in history birth of mehmed IV, sultan (Turkey)   

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

1699  On January - 02 birth of osman III, sultan (Turkey)   

1713  Marie Dumesnil, French actress (d. 1803) was born on January - 02.   

1719  Jacques-Alexandre Laffon de Ladebat, French shipbuilder (d. 1797) was born on this day in history.   

1727  On January - 02 birth of james Wolfe, commanded British Army (captured Quebec)   

1728  Louis Barbiano de Belgioioso, Austrian count/diplomat in Belgium was born on this day in history.   

1732  On January - 02 birth of franz Xaver Brixi, composer   

0017  On January - 02 publius Ovidius Naso, Roman poet, dies   

1512  On January - 02 death of svante, Regent of Sweden (b. 1460)   

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 January - 02.   

1740  On this day in history johann Georg Weichenberger, composer, dies at 63