Historical Events In January - 02

1790  On January - 02 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  On January - 02 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 January - 02 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  Ignaz Franz von Beecke, composer, dies at 69 on this day in history.  

1807  Tomasz Napoleon Nidecki, composer on January - 02.  

1809  On January - 02 friedrich Wilhelm Jahns, composer  

1811  On this day in history uS Senator Thomas Pickering is first senator censured (revealed confidential documents communicated by the President of the US)  

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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  Lord Byron completes "The Corsair" on this day in history.  

1818  On this day in history lord Byron completes "Childe Harold's Pilgrimage" (4th canto)  

1822  Rudolph J E Clausius, Germany, physicist (thermodynamics) on this day in history.  

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

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

1831  On this day in history justin Winston, historian/librarian (Harvard)  

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 January - 02.  

1835  Charles Russell Lowell Jr, Brig General (Union volunteers) on this day in history.  

1837  Mili Alexeyevich Balakirev, Nizhny-Novgorod, Russia, composer (Tamara) on this day in history.  

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

1839  The first ever photographs o on January - 02.  

1839  On January - 02 the first ever photographs of the Moon are taken  

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 January - 02.  

1842  Amy G C A Bonet-Maury, French reformed theologist on this day in history.  

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

1846  Sandor Erkel, composer on January - 02.  

1849  On this day in history the first gaslit streets in the province of Quebec are lit in Quebec City  

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

1860  William C Mills, museum curator (excavated Ohio Indian mounds) on this day in history.  

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1642  Mehmed IV, sultan (Turkey) was born on this day in history.  

1647  Nathaniel Bacon, leader of Bacon's Rebellion, Va (1676) was born on this day in history.  

1699  On this day in history birth of osman III, sultan (Turkey)  

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

1719  On this day in history birth of jacques-Alexandre Laffon de Ladebat, French shipbuilder (d. 1797)  

1727  James Wolfe, commanded British Army (captured Quebec) was born on this day in history.  

1728  On January - 02 birth of louis Barbiano de Belgioioso, Austrian count/diplomat in Belgium  

1732  Franz Xaver Brixi, composer was born on this day in history.  

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 this day in history.  

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 January - 02.  

1726  On this day in history domenico Zipoli, composer, dies at 37  

1740  Johann Georg Weichenberger, composer, dies at 63 on January - 02.