Page 2: Historical Events In January - 18
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1732 Jean-Guillain Cardon, composer. 

1733 The inaugural polar bear exhibited in America (Boston) 

1733 1st polar bear exhibited in America (Boston) 

1751 Ferdinand Kauer, composer. 

1760 Claudio Casciolini, composer, dies at 62 

1769 Hakuin Ekaku, Zen teacher (reformer of Rinzai school), dies in Japan 

1777 San Jose CA founded. 

1777 San Jose California, founded. 

1778 Captain Cook discovers what is now called the Hawiian Islands. 

1778 Captain James Cook stumbles over Sandwich Islands (Hawaiian Islands). 

1778 HMS Supply, inaugural ship of Britain's "inaugural Fleet" to Australia, reaches Botany Bay (Sydney) 

1778 Capt James Cook stumbles over Sandwich Islands (Hawaiian Islands) 

1779 Peter Roget, Founder of Roget's Thesaurus is born. 

1779 Peter Roget, thesaurus fame/inventor (slide rule, pocket chessboard) 

1782 Daniel Webster, Salisbury NH, orator/politician/lawyer. 

1788 The inaugural elements of the inaugural Fleet carrying 736 convicts from England to Australia arrives at Botany Bay to setup a penal colony 

1793 William Henry Havergal, composer 

1795 French admitted to Amsterdam without resistance. 

1795 Governor/Viceroy Willem V flees Scheveningen to England 

1795 Anna Paulowna Romanova, monarch of Russia/daughter of czar Paul I. 

1809 Richard Caswell Gatlin, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1896. 

1813 Joseph Farwell Glidden, inventor (1st coml useable barbed wire). 

1815 James Chesnut Jr, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1885. 

1817 San Martin leads a revolutionary army over Andes 

1817 San Martinleads a revolutionary army over Andes. 

1817 Jacques Gregoir, composer. 

1818 Johannes van Vloten, Dutch literary/theologist 

1820 Abraham Buford, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1884 

1829 Louis van Haecke, Flemish chaplain/author (Blood to Bridge) 

1831 Edward Ferrero, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1899 

1835 Caesar A Cui, Vilna Lithuania, fort architect/composer 

1840 Electro-Magnetic Intelligencer, inaugural US electrical journal, appears. 

1840 Electro-Magnetic Intelligencer, 1st US electrical journal, appears. 

1840 Austin Dobson, England, poet/critic/biographer. 

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