Historical Events In January - 02

1790  On this day in history joseph A Feuchtmayer (Feichtmayer), German rococo sculptor, dies   

1791  Big Bottom massacre in the Ohio Country, marking the beginning of the Northwest Indian War on this day in history.   

1800  Free black community of Philadelphia PA petitions Congress to abolish slavery on this day in history.   

1800  On January - 02 free black community of Phila petitions Congress to abolish slave   

1801  Johann C Lavater, Swiss vicar/philosopher, dies at 59 on January - 02.   

1803  On this day in history gugliemo Libri, [della Somaia], Ital/Fren mathematician/book collector   

1803  Ignaz Franz von Beecke, composer, dies at 69 on this day in history.   

1807  On January - 02 tomasz Napoleon Nidecki, composer   

1809  On this day in history friedrich Wilhelm Jahns, composer   

1811  On January - 02 uS Senator Thomas Pickering is first senator censured (revealed confidential documents communicated by the President of the US)   

1811  US Sen Thomas Pickering is 1st senator censured (revealed confidential documents communicated by the president of the US) on this day in history.   

1814  On this day in history lord Byron completes "The Corsair"   

1818  On January - 02 lord Byron completes "Childe Harold's Pilgrimage" (4th canto)   

1822  Rudolph J E Clausius, Germany, physicist (thermodynamics) on this day in history.   

1830  Henry Kingsley, English/Australian writer on this day in history.   

1831  Liberator, abolitionist newspaper, begins publishing in Boston on this day in history.   

1831  Justin Winston, historian/librarian (Harvard) on January - 02.   

1832  First Curling club in US (Orchard Lake Curling Club) opens on January - 02.   

1832  1st Curling club in US (Orchard Lake Curling Club) opens on January - 02.   

1833  Re-establishment of British rule on the Falklands on this day in history.   

1835  Charles Russell Lowell Jr, Brig General (Union volunteers) on this day in history.   

1837  On this day in history mili Alexeyevich Balakirev, Nizhny-Novgorod, Russia, composer (Tamara)   

1839  First photo of the Moon (French photographer Louis Daguerre) on this day in history.   

1839  The first ever photographs o on January - 02.   

1839  On this day in history the first ever photographs of the Moon are taken   

1839  1st photo of the Moon (French photographer Louis Daguerre) on January - 02.   

1842  On this day in history first US wire suspension bridge for general traffic opens in Pennsylvania   

1842  1st US wire suspension bridge for general traffic opens in Penn on January - 02.   

1842  On January - 02 amy G C A Bonet-Maury, French reformed theologist   

1843  On this day in history wagner's opera "Der Fliegende Holländer" premieres, Dresden   

1846  Sandor Erkel, composer on January - 02.   

1849  The first gaslit streets in the province of Quebec are lit in Quebec City on January - 02.   

1857  On this day in history frederick Opper, cartoonist (Maud, Alphonse & Gaston)   

1860  William C Mills, museum curator (excavated Ohio Indian mounds) on January - 02.   

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1642  Mehmed IV, sultan (Turkey) was born on January - 02.   

1647  Nathaniel Bacon, leader of Bacon's Rebellion, Va (1676) was born on this day in history.   

1699  On this day in history birth of osman III, sultan (Turkey)   

1713  On January - 02 birth of marie Dumesnil, French actress (d. 1803)   

1719  On January - 02 birth of jacques-Alexandre Laffon de Ladebat, French shipbuilder (d. 1797)   

1727  James Wolfe, commanded British Army (captured Quebec) was born on January - 02.   

1728  Louis Barbiano de Belgioioso, Austrian count/diplomat in Belgium was born on January - 02.   

1732  On January - 02 birth of franz Xaver Brixi, composer   

0017  On this day in history publius Ovidius Naso, Roman poet, dies   

1512  On this day in history death of svante, Regent of Sweden (b. 1460)   

1514  Death of William Smyth, English bishop and statesman (bc. 1460) on this day in history.   

1557  Death of Pontormo, Italian painter (b. 1494) on this day in history.   

1685  Death of Harbottle Grimston, English politician (b. 1603) on January - 02.   

1694  Death of Henry Booth, 1st Earl of Warrington, English politician (b. 1651) on January - 02.   

1726  Domenico Zipoli, composer, dies at 37 on January - 02.   

1740  On January - 02 johann Georg Weichenberger, composer, dies at 63