Page 2: Historical Events In January - 02

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

1791  On January - 02 big Bottom massacre in the Ohio Country, marking the beginning of the Northwest Indian War.   

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

1800  On this day in history free black community of Phila petitions Congress to abolish slave   

1801  Johann C Lavater, Swiss vicar/philosopher, dies at 59 on this day in history.   

1803  Gugliemo Libri, [della Somaia], Ital/Fren mathematician/book collector on this day in history.   

1803  Ignaz Franz von Beecke, composer, dies at 69 on January - 02.   

1807  On this day in history tomasz Napoleon Nidecki, composer   

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

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 January - 02 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 this day in history henry Kingsley, English/Australian writer   

1831  On January - 02 liberator, abolitionist newspaper, begins publishing in Boston   

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

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

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

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

1835  Charles Russell Lowell Jr, Brig General (Union volunteers) on January - 02.   

1837  On January - 02 mili Alexeyevich Balakirev, Nizhny-Novgorod, Russia, composer (Tamara)   

1839  First photo of the Moon (French photographer Louis Daguerre) on January - 02.   

1839  The first ever photographs o on January - 02.   

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

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

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

1842  On this day in history 1st US wire suspension bridge for general traffic opens in Penn   

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

1843  On this day in history wagner's opera "Der Fliegende Holländer" premieres, Dresden   

1846  Sandor Erkel, composer on this day in history.   

1849  The first gaslit streets in the province of Quebec are lit in Quebec City on January - 02.   

1857  Frederick Opper, cartoonist (Maud, Alphonse & Gaston) on January - 02.   

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

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

1713  On this day in history 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  James Wolfe, commanded British Army (captured Quebec) was born on this day in history.   

1728  On this day in history 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  Death of Svante, Regent of Sweden (b. 1460) on this day in history.   

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

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

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