Page 3: Historical Events In January - 06
Saturday, 03 January 2026
1786 On this day in history in Saint John, New Brunswick the first sitting of the New Brunswick legislature takes place at Saint John. 

1790 On this day in history johann Trier, composer, dies at 73 

1791 On January - 06 jose Melchor Gomiz y Colomer, composer 

1794 Kaspar Masek, composer on January - 06. 

1798 Ferdinand Simon Gassner, composer on this day in history. 

1799 On this day in history jedediah Strong Smith, US fur trader/explorer 

1799 On January - 06 w G Frederik, prince of Orange/general, dies at 25 

1800 On January - 06 willem A Schimmelpenninck van der Oye, Dutch politician 

1800 On this day in history william Jones, composer, dies at 73 

1802 On January - 06 ion Heliade-Radulescu, Romania, author/novelist/writer (Gramatica) 

1803 On January - 06 henri Herz, composer 

1807 On this day in history joseph Holt, Bvt Major General (Union Army), died in 1894 

1811 Charles Sumner, leading Reconstruction senator, died in 1874 on this day in history. 

1822 Heinrich Schliemann, German polyglot/archeologist (Troje) on January - 06. 

1826 On this day in history herman Grimm, Germany, writer/novelist (Ralph Waldo Emerson) 

1827 On January - 06 john Calvin Brown, Major General (Confederate Army), died in 1889 

1829 On this day in history kanagaki Robun [Bunzo Nozaki], Japanese humorist/gesaku-author 

1831 Rodolphe Kreutzer, Fr composer/violinist (Kreutzersonate), dies at 64 on this day in history. 

1832 New England Anti-Slavery Society organizes (Boston) on January - 06. 

1832 The birth of Gustave Dore, French illustrator on January - 06. 

1838 Samuel F.B. Morse makes the first public demonstration of the telegraph, in Morristown, New Jersey on this day in history. 

1838 On January - 06 samuel Morse gives the first demonstration of the electric telegraph 

1838 On this day in history max Bruch, Koln (Cologne), Germany, composer 

1839 2 day storm off Irish &English coast immortalized as "The Big Wind" on this day in history. 

1839 2 day storm off Irish & English coast immortalized as "Big Wind" on January - 06. 

1842 On this day in history 4,500 British &Indian troops leave Kabul, massacred before India 

1842 4,500 British & Indian troops leave Kabul, massacred before India on January - 06. 

1842 On this day in history clarence King, mining engineer (geologist) 

1845 Protestants and Catholics riot in Stratford, Ontario following the council election; eighty men fight in the streets on January - 06. 

1850 On this day in history eduard "Ede" Bernstein, German marxist (New Era) 

1854 Sherlock Holmes, Mycroft, fictional detective (via Arthur Conan Doyle) on this day in history. 

1856 On this day in history giuseppe Martucci, composer 

1857 On this day in history patent for reducing zinc ore granted to Samuel Wetherill, Pennsylvania 

1857 Patent for reducing zinc ore granted to Samuel Wetherill, Penn on January - 06. 

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