Page 2: Historical Events In January - 28

1621  On January - 28 paulus V, [Camillo Borghese], 233rd pope (1605-21), dies at 68   

1624  Sir Thomas Warner founds the first British colony in the Caribbean, on Saint Kitts on January - 28.   

1627  On this day in history alfonso Marsh, composer   

1645  On January - 28 gottfried Vopelius, composer   

1687  On this day in history johannes Hevelius, astronomer (star cataloger), dies on 76th birthday   

1688  On January - 28 jan Maurits Quinkhard, Dutch portrait painter   

1689  English parliament ends king Charles II reign on January - 28.   

1691  On this day in history johann Balthasar Konig, composer   

1693  Anna "Ivanovna", tsarina of Russia (1730-40) (2/7 NS) on January - 28.   

1697  John Fenwick, English conspirator on January - 28.   

1702  Hermanus Noordkerk, Dutch lawyer on this day in history.   

1706  John Baskerville, English printer (typeface inventor) on this day in history.   

1714  On this day in history jean-Baptiste Pigalle, French sculptor (Child with Pigeon)   

1717  On this day in history mustapha III, Sultan of Turkey (1757-74)   

1722  On this day in history johann Ernst Bach, composer   

1724  On January - 28 the Russian Academy of Sciences was founded in St. Petersburg by Peter the Great, and implemented in the Senate decree. It was called St. Petersburg Academy of Sciences until 1917.   

1725  Peter I "the Great" Romanov, czar of Russia, dies at 52 [NS=Feb 8] on January - 28.   

1754  On January - 28 horace Walpole, in a letter to Horace Mann, coins the word serendipity   

1754  On January - 28 ludvig Holberg, Danish lawyer/writer (Hendrig og Pernille), dies at 69   

1756  Hans Adolf Friedrich von Eschstruth, composer on this day in history.   

1757  On January - 28 antonio Bartolomeo Bruni, composer   

1760  Pownal, Vermont created by Benning Wentworth as one of the New Hampshire Grants on January - 28.   

1768  On this day in history frederick VI, Danish king (1808-39); lost Norway to Sweden (1814)   

1768  John Wainwright, composer, dies at 44 on this day in history.   

1775  Peter the Great, Russia on January - 28.   

1782  On January - 28 jean-Baptiste-Bourguignon d'Anville, French geographer, dies at 84   

1784  On this day in history george HG earl of Aberdeen, English secretary of State   

1787  Philadelphia's Free Africa Society organizes on this day in history.   

1788  Lord Gordon found guilty of libel of queen of France on January - 28.   

1788  On this day in history captain Arthur Phillip forms English colony at Botany Bay, Sydney   

1807  On this day in history london's Pall Mall is first street lit by gaslight   

1807  On January - 28 london's Pall Mall is 1st street lit by gaslight   

1810  On this day in history andrew Hofer, Tyrolian rebel against French & Bavarians, shot dead   

1813  On this day in history pride and Prejudice is first published in the United Kingdom.   

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1225  Saint Thomas Aquinas (d. 1274) was born on this day in history.   

1312  On January - 28 birth of queen Joan II of Navarre (d. 1349)   

1457  On this day in history birth of henry VII, Pembroke Castle, 1st Tudor king of England (1485-1509)   

1540  Ludolph van Ceulen, German mathematician (d. 1610) was born on this day in history.   

1578  On this day in history birth of cornelis Haga, Dutch lawyer/ambassador to Constantinople (1611-39)   

1582  On January - 28 birth of john Barclay, Scottish satirist/poet (Euphormio's Satyricon)   

1600  Clement IX, [Giulio Rospigliosi], Pistoia, Italy, 238th pope (1667-69) was born on January - 28.   

1608  On this day in history birth of giovanni Alfonso Borelli, Naples, mathematician/astronomer   

0814  Charlemagne, German emperor/Roman Emperor (800-814), dies at 71 on January - 28.   

1061  On January - 28 death of duke SpytihnÄ›v II of Bohemia (b. 1031)   

1119  Gelasius II, [Giovannis Caetani], pope (1118-19), dies on this day in history.   

1256  On this day in history willem II, earl of Holland/German emperor (1238, 47-56), dies at 22   

1271  Death of Isabella of Aragon, queen of Philip III of France (b. 1247) on January - 28.   

1393  Death of Earl of Joigny, burned at royal ball on January - 28.   

1443  On this day in history death of robert le Maçon, Chancellor of France   

1528  On January - 28 philips of Cleve, ruler of Ravenstein, dies