Page 2: Historical Events In 1813

Feb 27   Congress authorizes use of steamboats to transport mail.   

Feb 27   inaugural federal vaccination legislation enacted.   

Mar 02   George Alexander Macfarren, composer.   

Mar 03   Office of surgeon general of the US army forms.   

Mar 03   Office of Surgeon General of the US army is established   

Mar 04   Wijnand J J Nuijen, romantic/water colors painter (Wrecked).   

Mar 07   Judocus Smits, Dutch Catholic newspaper pioneer/founder (The Time)   

Mar 08   1st concerto of Royal Philharmonic.   

Mar 08   inaugural concerto of Royal Philharmonic   

Mar 10   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   David Melville, Newport RI, patents apparatus for making coal gas   

Mar 18   David Melville, Newport, RI, patents apparatus for making coal gas.   

Mar 18   Friedrich Hebbel, writer.   

Mar 19   David Livingstone, Scotland, explorer (are discovered by Stanley in Africa).   

Mar 19   Dr David Livingstone, Scottish explorer and opponent of slave trade is born   

Mar 20   Matthias Keller, Ulm Germany, hymm writer (O Farther un High).   

Mar 21   James Jesse Strang, King of Mormons on Beaver Is, MI (1850-56)   

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

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

Mar 25   USS Essex takes Neryeda, inaugural capture by U.S. Navy in Pacific.   

Mar 26   Thomas West Sherman, Bvt Major General (Union Army), died in 1879.   

Mar 27   Nathaniel Currier, lithographer (Currier and Ives)   

Mar 29   John Letcher, Gov (Confederacy), died in 1884   

Apr 14   Joachim Nicolas Eggert, composer, dies at 34.   

Apr 14   Junius S Morgan, US, merchant/philanthropist (Metro Museum of Art)   

Apr 17   Henry Washington Benham, Bvt Major General (Union Army), died in 1884   

Apr 19   Benjamin Rush, physician/abolotionist (signed Decl of Ind), dies at 67.   

Apr 23   Stephen Arnold Douglas, (Little giant), US senator (Lincoln debates)   

Apr 27   Americans under Gen Pike capture Toronto; Pike is killed   

Apr 27   U.S. Navy and Army forces capture York (now Toronto), Canada   

Apr 27   Zebulon M Pike, US explorer (Pike's Peak), dies in battle at 34   

Apr 29   Christian Danner, composer, dies at 55   

Apr 29   Rubber is patented.   

May 06   Joseph Tarr Copeland, Brig General (Union volunteers), died in 1893.   

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Jan 04   On this day in history birth of alexander Freiherr von Bach, Austria attorney/premier (1852-59)   

Jan 04   Isaac Pitman, Britain, inventor (stenographic shorthand) was born in the year 1813.   

Jan 04   Louis L Bonaparte, English/French linguist/senator was born on this day in history.   

Jan 05   On this day in history birth of thomas Neville Waul, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1903   

Jan 15   James Marion Sims, SC, surgeon/gynecologist (vesicovaginal operation) was born in the year 1813.   

Jan 18   On this day in history birth of joseph Farwell Glidden, inventor (1st coml useable barbed wire)   

Jan 19   Henry Bessemer, engineer/inventor (Bessemer engine) was born on this day in history.   

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

Jan 03   Bennelong, Australian aboriginal interlocutor between his tribe and the British settlers (b. c. 1764) died on this day in history.   

Jan 06   Louis Baraguey d'Hilliers, French general (b. 1764) died in the year 1813.   

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 on this day in history.   

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

Feb 13   On this day in history 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.