Page 2: Historical Events In January - 02

1790  On January - 02 joseph A Feuchtmayer (Feichtmayer), German rococo sculptor, dies   

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

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

1800  On this day in history free black community of Phila petitions Congress to abolish slave   

1801  Johann C Lavater, Swiss vicar/philosopher, dies at 59 on this day in history.   

1803  Gugliemo Libri, [della Somaia], Ital/Fren mathematician/book collector on this day in history.   

1803  On January - 02 ignaz Franz von Beecke, composer, dies at 69   

1807  Tomasz Napoleon Nidecki, composer on January - 02.   

1809  Friedrich Wilhelm Jahns, composer on January - 02.   

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

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  Lord Byron completes "The Corsair" on January - 02.   

1818  Lord Byron completes "Childe Harold's Pilgrimage" (4th canto) on this day in history.   

1822  On this day in history rudolph J E Clausius, Germany, physicist (thermodynamics)   

1830  Henry Kingsley, English/Australian writer on January - 02.   

1831  On this day in history liberator, abolitionist newspaper, begins publishing in Boston   

1831  On this day in history justin Winston, historian/librarian (Harvard)   

1832  On January - 02 first Curling club in US (Orchard Lake Curling Club) opens   

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

1833  Re-establishment of British rule on the Falklands on January - 02.   

1835  On this day in history charles Russell Lowell Jr, Brig General (Union volunteers)   

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

1839  On this day in history first photo of the Moon (French photographer Louis Daguerre)   

1839  The first ever photographs o on this day in history.   

1839  On January - 02 the first ever photographs of the Moon are taken   

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

1842  On January - 02 first US wire suspension bridge for general traffic opens in Pennsylvania   

1842  On this day in history 1st US wire suspension bridge for general traffic opens in Penn   

1842  Amy G C A Bonet-Maury, French reformed theologist on this day in history.   

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 this day in history.   

1857  Frederick Opper, cartoonist (Maud, Alphonse & Gaston) on January - 02.   

1860  On January - 02 william C Mills, museum curator (excavated Ohio Indian mounds)   

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1642  On this day in history birth of mehmed IV, sultan (Turkey)   

1647  On this day in history birth of nathaniel Bacon, leader of Bacon's Rebellion, Va (1676)   

1699  Osman III, sultan (Turkey) was born on January - 02.   

1713  On this day in history 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 this day in history.   

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

1732  Franz Xaver Brixi, composer was born on this day in history.   

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 January - 02.   

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

1694  On this day in history death of henry Booth, 1st Earl of Warrington, English politician (b. 1651)   

1726  Domenico Zipoli, composer, dies at 37 on this day in history.   

1740  Johann Georg Weichenberger, composer, dies at 63 on this day in history.