Page 2: Historical Events In 1813

Feb 27   Congress authorizes use of steamboats to transport mail in the year 1813.   

Feb 27   First federal vaccination legislation enacted on this day in history.   

Mar 02   George Alexander Macfarren, composer in the year 1813.   

Mar 03   In the year 1813 office of surgeon general of the US army forms   

Mar 03   Office of Surgeon General of the US army is established in the year 1813.   

Mar 04   Wijnand J J Nuijen, romantic/water colors painter (Wrecked) on this day in history.   

Mar 07   On this day in history judocus Smits, Dutch Catholic newspaper pioneer/founder (The Time)   

Mar 08   On this day in history 1st concerto of Royal Philharmonic   

Mar 08   On this day in history first concerto of Royal Philharmonic   

Mar 10   On this day in history six companies of the 104th Regiment of Foot, plus 4th New Brunswick Regiment, start 52-day march overland to the St. Lawrence in winter; travel on snowshoes, pulling supplies on toboggans, lose only one man, arriving in Kingston April 12   

Mar 18   On this day in history david Melville, Newport RI, patents apparatus for making coal gas   

Mar 18   David Melville, Newport, RI, patents apparatus for making coal gas on this day in history.   

Mar 18   In the year 1813 friedrich Hebbel, writer   

Mar 19   In the year 1813 david Livingstone, Scotland, explorer (found by Stanley in Africa)   

Mar 19   On this day in history the birth of Dr David Livingstone, Scottish explorer and opponent of slave trade   

Mar 20   In the year 1813 matthias Keller, Ulm Germany, hymm writer (O Farther un High)   

Mar 21   In the year 1813 james Jesse Strang, King of Mormons on Beaver Is, MI (1850-56)   

Mar 22   Gabriel Rene Paul, Brig General (Union volunteers), died in 1886 on this day in history.   

Mar 25   1st US flag flown in battle on the Pacific, frigate Essex on this day in history.   

Mar 25   On this day in history uSS Essex takes Neryeda, first capture by U.S. Navy in Pacific   

Mar 26   On this day in history thomas West Sherman, Bvt Major General (Union Army), died in 1879   

Mar 27   Nathaniel Currier, lithographer (Currier & Ives) on this day in history.   

Mar 29   John Letcher, Gov (Confederacy), died in 1884 on this day in history.   

Apr 14   Joachim Nicolas Eggert, composer, dies at 34 in the year 1813.   

Apr 14   Junius S Morgan, US, merchant/philanthropist (Metro Museum of Art) in the year 1813.   

Apr 17   In the year 1813 henry Washington Benham, Bvt Major General (Union Army), died in 1884   

Apr 19   Benjamin Rush, physician/abolotionist (signed Decl of Ind), dies at 67 on this day in history.   

Apr 23   Stephen Arnold Douglas, (Little giant), US senator (Lincoln debates) on this day in history.   

Apr 27   In the year 1813 americans under Gen Pike capture Toronto; Pike is killed   

Apr 27   U.S. Navy and Army forces capture York (now Toronto), Canada on this day in history.   

Apr 27   On this day in history zebulon M Pike, US explorer (Pike's Peak), dies in battle at 34   

Apr 29   Christian Danner, composer, dies at 55 in the year 1813.   

Apr 29   On this day in history rubber is patented   

May 06   On this day in history joseph Tarr Copeland, Brig General (Union volunteers), died in 1893   

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Jan 04   Alexander Freiherr von Bach, Austria attorney/premier (1852-59) was born on this day in history.   

Jan 04   In the year 1813 birth of isaac Pitman, Britain, inventor (stenographic shorthand)   

Jan 04   In the year 1813 birth of louis L Bonaparte, English/French linguist/senator   

Jan 05   In the year 1813 birth of thomas Neville Waul, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1903   

Jan 15   On this day in history birth of james Marion Sims, SC, surgeon/gynecologist (vesicovaginal operation)   

Jan 18   Joseph Farwell Glidden, inventor (1st coml useable barbed wire) was born in the year 1813.   

Jan 19   On this day in history birth of henry Bessemer, engineer/inventor (Bessemer engine)   

Jan 20   Jacon Gartner Lauman, Bvt Mjr General (Union volunteers), died in 1867 was born in the year 1813.   

Jan 03   On this day in history death of bennelong, Australian aboriginal interlocutor between his tribe and the British settlers (b. c. 1764)   

Jan 06   In the year 1813 death of louis Baraguey d'Hilliers, French general (b. 1764)   

Jan 20   C M Wieland, writer, dies at 79 on this day in history.   

Jan 23   George Clymer, US merchant (signed Decl of Independence), dies at 73 in the year 1813.   

Jan 28   On this day in history jan Joseph Rosler, composer, dies at 41   

Feb 13   In the year 1813 death of samuel Ashe, Governor of North Carolina (b. 1725)   

Feb 26   On this day in history robert R Livingston, US diplomat (Decl of Independence), dies at 66   

Apr 10   Joseph-Louis Lagrange, Italian-born mathematician and astronomer (b. 1736) died on this day in history.