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 January - 02.   

1800  Free black community of Philadelphia PA petitions Congress to abolish slavery on January - 02.   

1800  Free black community of Phila petitions Congress to abolish slave on this day in history.   

1801  Johann C Lavater, Swiss vicar/philosopher, dies at 59 on January - 02.   

1803  On this day in history gugliemo Libri, [della Somaia], Ital/Fren mathematician/book collector   

1803  On January - 02 ignaz Franz von Beecke, composer, dies at 69   

1807  On January - 02 tomasz Napoleon Nidecki, composer   

1809  Friedrich Wilhelm Jahns, composer on January - 02.   

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

1811  US Sen Thomas Pickering is 1st senator censured (revealed confidential documents communicated by the president of the US) on this day in history.   

1814  On this day in history lord Byron completes "The Corsair"   

1818  On January - 02 lord Byron completes "Childe Harold's Pilgrimage" (4th canto)   

1822  Rudolph J E Clausius, Germany, physicist (thermodynamics) on January - 02.   

1830  On January - 02 henry Kingsley, English/Australian writer   

1831  Liberator, abolitionist newspaper, begins publishing in Boston on this day in history.   

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

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

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

1833  Re-establishment of British rule on the Falklands on this day in history.   

1835  On January - 02 charles Russell Lowell Jr, Brig General (Union volunteers)   

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

1839  On this day in history first photo of the Moon (French photographer Louis Daguerre)   

1839  On January - 02 the first ever photographs o   

1839  The first ever photographs of the Moon are taken on January - 02.   

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 this day in history.   

1842  Amy G C A Bonet-Maury, French reformed theologist on January - 02.   

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

1846  On January - 02 sandor Erkel, composer   

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 January - 02.   

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1642  On January - 02 birth of mehmed IV, sultan (Turkey)   

1647  On January - 02 birth of nathaniel Bacon, leader of Bacon's Rebellion, Va (1676)   

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

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

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  Franz Xaver Brixi, composer was born on this day in history.   

0017  Publius Ovidius Naso, Roman poet, dies on this day in history.   

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

1514  On January - 02 death of william Smyth, English bishop and statesman (bc. 1460)   

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

1685  Death of Harbottle Grimston, English politician (b. 1603) on January - 02.   

1694  Death of Henry Booth, 1st Earl of Warrington, English politician (b. 1651) on this day in history.   

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

1740  Johann Georg Weichenberger, composer, dies at 63 on this day in history.