Top Historical Events That Happened on January 02

1791  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.   

1800  Free black community of Phila petitions Congress to abolish slave.   

1801  Johann C Lavater, Swiss vicar/philosopher, dies at 59   

1803  Gugliemo Libri, [della Somaia], Ital/Fren mathematician/book collector   

1803  Ignaz Franz von Beecke, composer, dies at 69   

1807  Tomasz Napoleon Nidecki, composer.   

1809  Friedrich Wilhelm Jahns, composer.   

1811  US Senator Thomas Pickering is inaugural 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).   

1814  Lord Byron completes "The Corsair"   

1818  Lord Byron completes "Childe Harold's Pilgrimage" (4th canto)   

1822  Rudolph J E Clausius, Germany, physicist (thermodynamics)   

1830  Henry Kingsley, English/Australian writer.   

1831  Liberator, abolitionist newspaper, begins publishing in Boston   

1831  Justin Winston, historian/librarian (Harvard).   

1832  inaugural Curling club in US (Orchard Lake Curling Club) opens   

1832  1st Curling club in US (Orchard Lake Curling Club) opens   

1833  Re-establishment of British rule on the Falklands.   

1835  Charles Russell Lowell Jr, Brig General (Union volunteers).   

1837  Mili Alexeyevich Balakirev, Nizhny-Novgorod, Russia, composer (Tamara).   

1839  inaugural photo of the Moon (French photographer Louis Daguerre).   

1839  The inaugural ever photographs o.   

1839  The inaugural ever photographs of the Moon are taken   

1839  1st photo of the Moon (French photographer Louis Daguerre)   

1842  inaugural US wire suspension bridge for general traffic opens in Pennsylvania   

1842  1st US wire suspension bridge for general traffic opens in Penn.   

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

1843  Wagner's opera "Der Fliegende Holländer" premieres, Dresden   

1846  Sandor Erkel, composer   

1849  The inaugural gaslit streets in the province of Quebec are lit in Quebec City   

1857  Frederick Opper, cartoonist (Maud, Alphonse and Gaston)   

1860  William C Mills, museum curator (excavated Ohio Indian mounds).   

1861  Colonel Charles Stone is put in charge of organizing DC militia.   

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1642  Mehmed iv: Sultan (turkey)   

1647  Nathaniel bacon: Leader of bacon's rebellion, va (1676)   

1699  Osman iii: Sultan (turkey)   

1713  Marie dumesnil: French actress   

1719  Jacques-alexandre laffon de ladebat: French shipbuilder   

1727  James wolfe: Commanded british army (captured quebec)   

1728  Louis barbiano de belgioioso: Austrian count/diplomat in belgium   

1732  Franz xaver brixi: Composer   

0017  Death of Publius ovidius naso: Roman poet,   

1512  Death of Svante: Regent of sweden (b. 1460)   

1514  Death of William smyth: English bishop and statesman (bc. 1460)   

1557  Pontormo: Italian painter (b. 1494)   

1685  Death of Harbottle grimston: English politician (b. 1603)   

1694  Henry booth: 1st earl of warrington, english politician (b. 1651)   

1726  Death of Domenico zipoli: Composer,   

1740  Death of Johann georg weichenberger: Composer,