Page 3: Historical Events In January - 06

1791  Jose Melchor Gomiz y Colomer, composer.   

1794  Kaspar Masek, composer.   

1798  Ferdinand Simon Gassner, composer   

1799  Jedediah Strong Smith, US fur trader/explorer.   

1799  W G Frederik, prince of Orange/general, dies at 25   

1800  Willem A Schimmelpenninck van der Oye, Dutch politician   

1800  William Jones, composer, dies at 73   

1802  Ion Heliade-Radulescu, Romania, author/novelist/writer (Gramatica).   

1803  Henri Herz, composer   

1807  Joseph Holt, Bvt Major General (Union Army), died in 1894.   

1811  Charles Sumner, leading Reconstruction senator, died in 1874.   

1822  Heinrich Schliemann, German polyglot/archeologist (Troje).   

1826  Herman Grimm, Germany, writer/novelist (Ralph Waldo Emerson)   

1827  John Calvin Brown, Major General (Confederate Army), died in 1889   

1829  Kanagaki Robun [Bunzo Nozaki], Japanese humorist/gesaku-author   

1831  Rodolphe Kreutzer, Fr composer/violinist (Kreutzersonate), dies at 64   

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

1832  Gustave Dore, French illustrator is born.   

1838  Samuel F.B. Morse makes the inaugural public demonstration of the telegraph, in Morristown, New Jersey   

1838  Samuel Morse gives the inaugural demonstration of the electric telegraph   

1838  Max Bruch, Koln (Cologne), Germany, composer.   

1839  2 day storm off Irish and English coast immortalized as "The Big Wind"   

1839  2 day storm off Irish and English coast immortalized as "Big Wind".   

1842  4500 British and Indian troops leave Kabul, massacred before India   

1842  Clarence King, mining engineer (geologist).   

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

1850  Eduard "Ede" Bernstein, German marxist (New Era).   

1854  Sherlock Holmes, Mycroft, fictional detective (via Arthur Conan Doyle).   

1856  Giuseppe Martucci, composer   

1857  Patent for reducing zinc ore granted to Samuel Wetherill, Pennsylvania   

1857  Patent for reducing zinc ore granted to Samuel Wetherill, Penn   

1859  Samuel Alexander, English philosopher (Moral order and progress).   

1861  Florida troops seize Federal arsenal at Apalachicola   

1861  New York City NY mayor proposes New York become a free city, trading with N and S.   

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1367  Richard ii: Bordeaux, france, king of england (1377-99)   

1367  Richard ii of england: Richard ii of england (d. 1400)   

1412  Joan of arc: Domremy, martyr   

1412  Joan of arc: Roman catholic saint and national heroine of france (legendary date)   

1412  Joan of arc: Domrémy, roman catholic saint and national heroine of france (legendary date)   

1486  Martin agricola: [m sore], german composer/cantor   

1488  Helius eobanus hessus: German poet (silvae)   

1525  Caspar peucer: German reformer   

0664  Amr ibn al-a'as: Arab general (bc. 583)   

1088  Berengarius of tours: French theologist,   

1275  Raymundus of penafort: Spanish church law scholar,   

1374  Death of Andreas corsini: Italian saint/bishop of fiesole,   

1425  Death of Jan of bavaria: Liege of holland/bishop/duke,   

1448  Christopher iii: King of denmark/norway/sweden,   

1481  Akhmat khan: Khan of the golden horde   

1536  Baldassare peruzzi: Italian architect/painter,