Apr 08   Asger Hamerik, [Hammerich], composer.   

Apr 14   Gustave Leon Huberti, composer   

Apr 14   Joseph Franz Karl Lanner, Austria, composer/violist, dies at 42.   

Apr 15   Carl Eilhardt, composer.   

Apr 15   Henry James, American novelist is born   

Apr 28   William Wallace, Scottish mathematician (rights of Wallace), dies.   

May 02   Carl Michael Ziehrer, composer   

May 04   Great-Britain annexes Natal.   

May 06   Grove Karl Gilbert, geologist, investigated Lake Bonneville, Utah   

May 09   Belle Boyd, spy (Confederate)/actress/lecturer   

May 10   Kaufmann Kohler, reform rabbi/theologian.   

May 12   Johann Georg Lickl, composer, dies at 74.   

May 13   Count Paul J Smet de Naeyer, Belgian politician.   

May 18   United Free Church of Scotland forms   

May 21   Louis Renault, French lawyer.   

May 22   1st wagon train, 1000+ depart Independence Missouri for Oregon   

May 22   The inaugural wagon train, 1000+ departs Independence MO for Oregon.   

May 23   Pedro Miguel Marques y Garcia, composer.   

May 28   Noah Webster, lexicographer (Webster's Dictionary), dies at 84.   

May 29   Emile Pessard, composer   

Jun 01   It snows in Buffalo and Rochester NY and Cleveland Ohio   

Jun 01   Sojourner Truth leaves NY to begin her career as antislavery activist.   

Jun 03   Frederik VIII CWK, King of Denmark (1906-12).   

Jun 07   Susan Elizabeth Blow, US, pioneered kindergarten education.   

Jun 09   Bertha von Suttner, Austria, novelist/pacifist (Nobel 1905).   

Jun 10   Heinrich von Herzogenberg, composer   

Jun 15   Edvard Hagerup Grieg, Bergen Norway, composer (Bewitched One).   

Jun 16   David Popper, composer   

Jun 19   Charles Edouard Lefebvre, composer   

Jun 22   Gabriele Prota, composer, dies at 88.   

Jun 24   Vincenzo Soliva decrees no Jew can live outside of ghetto in Italy.   

Jun 26   Hong Kong proclaimed a British Crown Colony.   

Jul 02   An alligator falls from sky during a Charleston SC thunderstorm.   

Jul 02   An alligator falls from the sky during a Charleston SC thunderstorm   

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Jan 01   Nikolay nikolayevich lodizhensky: Composer   

Jan 08   Frederick abberline: British police investigator   

Jan 08   John h. moffitt: American politician   

Jan 09   Christiaan a ulder: Curacao, composer (waltzes/tumbas)   

Jan 10   Frank james: American outlaw    

Jan 11   Charles yelverton o'connor: Irish-australian engineer   

Jan 20   Pierre-paul cambon: French diplomat (madrid, constantinople, london)   

Jan 23   Hans heinrich xiv hochberg: Composer   

Jan 04   Petronella moens: Frisian author/poetess,   

Jan 07   Franz schoberlechner: Composer,   

Jan 09   Caroline herschel: "1st lady of astronomy",   

Jan 11   Francis scott key: Composer (star spangled banner),   

Feb 15   Theodoros kolokotronis: Greek military figure (b. 1770)   

Mar 16   Anton r falck: Dutch minister of education/colonies,    

Mar 21   Guadalupe victoria: First president of mexico (b. 1786)   

Mar 27   Karl salomo zachariae von lingenthal: German jurist (b. 1769)