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   Alexander freiherr von bach: Austria attorney/premier (1852-59)   

Jan 04   Isaac pitman: Britain, inventor (stenographic shorthand)   

Jan 04   Louis l bonaparte: English/french linguist/senator   

Jan 05   Thomas neville waul: Brig general (confederate army), died in 1903   

Jan 15   James marion sims: Sc, surgeon/gynecologist (vesicovaginal operation)   

Jan 18   Joseph farwell glidden: Inventor (1st coml useable barbed wire)   

Jan 19   Henry bessemer: Engineer/inventor (bessemer engine)   

Jan 20   Jacon gartner lauman: Bvt mjr general (union volunteers), died in 1867   

Jan 03   Bennelong: Australian aboriginal interlocutor between his tribe and the british settlers (b. c. 1764)   

Jan 06   Louis baraguey d'hilliers: French general (b. 1764)   

Jan 20   C m wieland: Writer,    

Jan 23   George clymer: Us merchant (signed decl of independence),    

Jan 28   Jan joseph rosler: Composer,    

Feb 13   Samuel ashe: Governor of north carolina (b. 1725)   

Feb 26   Robert r livingston: Us diplomat (decl of independence),    

Apr 10   Joseph-louis lagrange: Italian-born mathematician and astronomer (b. 1736)