Page 5: Historical Events In 1849

Sep 10   1st performance by US actor Edwin Booth (Richard III)   

Sep 10   Edwin Booth, later to assassinate president Abraham Lincoln, makes his acting debut   

Sep 13   1st US prize fight fatality (Tom McCoy)   

Sep 13   The inaugural US prize fight fatality (Tom McCoy).   

Sep 14   Ivan Pavlov, Russia, physiologist/pioneer in psychology (Nobel 1904)   

Sep 17   Vaclav Juda Novotny, composer.   

Sep 18   De Kempenaer's Dutch govt steps down.   

Sep 19   1st commercial laundry established, in Oaklan, California   

Sep 19   inaugural commercial laundry established, in Oakland, California.   

Sep 21   Edmund Gosse, London, translator/critic (Father and Son)   

Sep 22   John Godden, English explorer (Curacao)   

Sep 23   Mikhail Mikhaylovich Ivanov, composer   

Sep 25   Johann Baptist Strauss, elder, composer (Radetzky-Marsch), dies at 45.   

Sep 28   Dudley Allen Sargent, US, physician/educator (Harvard U gymnasium).   

Sep 29   1st passenger train service to Peekskill NY (New Haven Railroad)   

Sep 29   inaugural passenger train service to Peekskill NY (New Haven Railroad)   

Sep 29   Ladislao Joseph Philip Paul Zavrtal, composer   

Oct 03   American author Edgar Allan Poe is are discovered delirious in a gutter in Baltimore, Maryland under mysterious circumstances; it is the last time he is seen in public before his death.   

Oct 06   Basil Zaharoff, arms dealer, "merchant of death"   

Oct 06   The execution of the 13 Martyrs of Arad after the Hungarian war of independence   

Oct 07   Edgar Allen Poe, poet (Raven), dies in Balt at 40   

Oct 07   James Whitcomb Riley, US, poet (Raggedy Man)   

Oct 16   Arnold Krug, composer   

Oct 16   Avery College establishes in Allegheny, Pennsylvania.   

Oct 16   George Washington Williams, 1st major black historian, dies.   

Oct 17   Frederic F Chopin, Polish/French pianist/composer, dies at 39.   

Oct 19   Elizabeth Blackwell became inaugural woman in US to receive medical degree.   

Oct 30   Johan Willem, son of Dutch princess Marianne and coachman   

Nov 01   Dutch govt of Thorbecke forms   

Nov 05   Rui Barbosa, Brazil, statesman/jurist/essayist/civil liberties.   

Nov 08   Edward Julius Biedermann, composer.   

Nov 13   Peter Burnett elected 1st governor of California   

Nov 13   William Etty, English painter (nudist), dies at 62   

Nov 15   1st US poultry show opens in Boston.   

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Jan 09   John hartley: English tennis player, double winner of wimbledon   

Jan 11   Oskar lassar: German dermatologist (bath house)   

Jan 12   Jean béraud: French painter   

Jan 18   Edmund barton: 1st pm of australia (1900-03)   

Jan 22   August strindberg: Sweden, dramatist/novelist (apologia)   

Feb 02   Pavol országh hviezdoslav: Slovak poet   

Feb 04   Jean richepin: French poet/writer (les chansons de gueux)   

Feb 13   Lord randolph churchill: England, politician, winston's father   

Jan 09   Jan kops: Dutch agriculturist/vicar,    

Jan 16   Wilhelm m l de wette: German theologist,    

Jan 26   Thomas lovell beddoes: English poet (death's jest-book), suicide at 45   

Feb 08   France preseren: Slovenian poet (sonetni venec),   

Feb 09   Corneille vander planken: Composer,    

Feb 13   Christian rummel: Composer,   

Feb 15   Pierre f verhulst: Belgian mathematician (logistic curve),    

Feb 22   Alexander ernst fesca: Composer,