Page 2: Historical Events In January - 02

1790  Joseph A Feuchtmayer (Feichtmayer), German rococo sculptor, dies on this day in history.   

1791  On this day in history 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 this day in history.   

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

1801  On this day in history johann C Lavater, Swiss vicar/philosopher, dies at 59   

1803  On January - 02 gugliemo Libri, [della Somaia], Ital/Fren mathematician/book collector   

1803  Ignaz Franz von Beecke, composer, dies at 69 on this day in history.   

1807  On January - 02 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  On January - 02 uS Sen Thomas Pickering is 1st senator censured (revealed confidential documents communicated by the president of the US)   

1814  Lord Byron completes "The Corsair" on January - 02.   

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

1822  On this day in history rudolph J E Clausius, Germany, physicist (thermodynamics)   

1830  Henry Kingsley, English/Australian writer on January - 02.   

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

1831  Justin Winston, historian/librarian (Harvard) on this day in history.   

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

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

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 this day in history.   

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

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

1842  On January - 02 first US wire suspension bridge for general traffic opens in Pennsylvania   

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

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

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

1846  Sandor Erkel, composer on this day in history.   

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

1857  On January - 02 frederick Opper, cartoonist (Maud, Alphonse & Gaston)   

1860  On this day in history william C Mills, museum curator (excavated Ohio Indian mounds)   

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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 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  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 this day in history birth of franz Xaver Brixi, composer   

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

1512  On this day in history 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  On January - 02 death of harbottle Grimston, English politician (b. 1603)   

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 this day in history.