Page 3: Historical Events In January - 28

1813  Jan Joseph Rosler, composer, dies at 41 on January - 28.   

1814  On January - 28 stendahl's 1st book is published   

1815  On this day in history andrew Jackson Hamilton, Brig General (Union volunteers), died in 1875   

1817  On January - 28 friedrich Ludwig Emilius Kunzen, composer, dies at 55   

1818  George Sewall Boutwell, MC (Union), died in 1905 on January - 28.   

1819  On this day in history sir Stamford Raffles first lands in Singapore much later a famous Hotel bears his name   

1819  Sir Stamford Raffles 1st lands in Singapore on this day in history.   

1820  Russian expedition led by Fabian Gottlieb von Bellingshausen and Mikhail Petrovich Lazarev discovered the Antarctic continent approaching the Antarctic coast on January - 28.   

1821  Bellingshausen discovers Alexander Island off Antarctica on January - 28.   

1822  On January - 28 alexander MacKenzie, (L) 2nd PM of Canada (1873-78)   

1824  On January - 28 william Kneass becomes 3rd US chief engraver (1824-40)   

1825  On January - 28 george Edward Pickett, Major General (Confederate Army), died in 1875   

1828  Michel Abeloos, Flemish sculptor on this day in history.   

1829  William Burke, murderer/body snatcher, executed in Edinburgh on January - 28.   

1830  On this day in history the opera "Fra Diavolo" is produced (Paris)   

1830  Opera "Fra Diavolo," premieres in Paris on this day in history.   

1831  On January - 28 henry Brevard Davidson, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1899   

1832  On January - 28 franz Wullner, composer   

1833  Charles George Gordon, London, general (China, Khartoum) on January - 28.   

1838  Aleksandr I Polezjajev, Russian poet (Sasjka), dies at 33 [NS] on January - 28.   

1841  On January - 28 the birth of Sir Henry Morton Stanley, Sent to find the missing Dr Livingstone   

1841  On January - 28 henry Stanley, Engld, journalist/explorer (found Livingston in Africa)   

1846  Battle of Allwal, Brits beat Sikhs in Punjab (India) on this day in history.   

1848  On this day in history king of Naples grants his subjects a constitution   

1851  On January - 28 northwestern University (Chicago) chartered   

1853  On January - 28 jose Martí y Perez, Cuba, poet/essayist/politician   

1855  The first locomotive runs from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean on the Panama Railway on January - 28.   

1855  William Seward Burroughs, NY, inventor (recording adding machine) on January - 28.   

1858  John Brown organized raid on Arsenal at Harper's Ferry on January - 28.   

1860  Britain formally returns Mosquito Coast to Nicaragua on January - 28.   

1864  On this day in history battle of New Bern, NC   

1864  On January - 28 herbert Akroyd Stuart, English engineer   

1865  On this day in history president Jefferson Davis names 3 peace commissioners   

1865  Pres Jefferson Davis names 3 peace commissioners on this day in history.   

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1225  On January - 28 birth of saint Thomas Aquinas (d. 1274)   

1312  On this day in history birth of queen Joan II of Navarre (d. 1349)   

1457  On January - 28 birth of henry VII, Pembroke Castle, 1st Tudor king of England (1485-1509)   

1540  Ludolph van Ceulen, German mathematician (d. 1610) was born on January - 28.   

1578  Cornelis Haga, Dutch lawyer/ambassador to Constantinople (1611-39) was born on January - 28.   

1582  John Barclay, Scottish satirist/poet (Euphormio's Satyricon) was born on this day in history.   

1600  On this day in history birth of clement IX, [Giulio Rospigliosi], Pistoia, Italy, 238th pope (1667-69)   

1608  On January - 28 birth of giovanni Alfonso Borelli, Naples, mathematician/astronomer   

0814  Charlemagne, German emperor/Roman Emperor (800-814), dies at 71 on January - 28.   

1061  Death of Duke SpytihnÄ›v II of Bohemia (b. 1031) on this day in history.   

1119  On January - 28 gelasius II, [Giovannis Caetani], pope (1118-19), dies   

1256  On January - 28 willem II, earl of Holland/German emperor (1238, 47-56), dies at 22   

1271  Death of Isabella of Aragon, queen of Philip III of France (b. 1247) on January - 28.   

1393  Death of Earl of Joigny, burned at royal ball on this day in history.   

1443  On this day in history death of robert le Maçon, Chancellor of France   

1528  On this day in history philips of Cleve, ruler of Ravenstein, dies