Historical Events In January - 02

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

1791  On January - 02 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  Free black community of Phila petitions Congress to abolish slave on this day in history.   

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 January - 02.   

1807  On this day in history tomasz Napoleon Nidecki, composer   

1809  On January - 02 friedrich Wilhelm Jahns, composer   

1811  On this day in history 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 January - 02.   

1814  On January - 02 lord Byron completes "The Corsair"   

1818  Lord Byron completes "Childe Harold's Pilgrimage" (4th canto) on January - 02.   

1822  Rudolph J E Clausius, Germany, physicist (thermodynamics) on January - 02.   

1830  On January - 02 henry Kingsley, English/Australian writer   

1831  On January - 02 liberator, abolitionist newspaper, begins publishing in Boston   

1831  On January - 02 justin Winston, historian/librarian (Harvard)   

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 this day in history.   

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

1835  On January - 02 charles Russell Lowell Jr, Brig General (Union volunteers)   

1837  Mili Alexeyevich Balakirev, Nizhny-Novgorod, Russia, composer (Tamara) on January - 02.   

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

1839  On this day in history the first ever photographs o   

1839  The first ever photographs of the Moon are taken on this day in history.   

1839  1st photo of the Moon (French photographer Louis Daguerre) on this day in history.   

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  On this day in history amy G C A Bonet-Maury, French reformed theologist   

1843  Wagner's opera "Der Fliegende Holländer" premieres, Dresden on January - 02.   

1846  On January - 02 sandor Erkel, composer   

1849  On this day in history the first gaslit streets in the province of Quebec are lit in Quebec City   

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

1860  On this day in history william C Mills, museum curator (excavated Ohio Indian mounds)   

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

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

1719  Jacques-Alexandre Laffon de Ladebat, French shipbuilder (d. 1797) was born on this day in history.   

1727  On January - 02 birth of james Wolfe, commanded British Army (captured Quebec)   

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

1732  On this day in history birth of franz Xaver Brixi, composer   

0017  On January - 02 publius Ovidius Naso, Roman poet, dies   

1512  On January - 02 death of svante, Regent of Sweden (b. 1460)   

1514  On this day in history death of william Smyth, English bishop and statesman (bc. 1460)   

1557  Death of Pontormo, Italian painter (b. 1494) on January - 02.   

1685  On this day in history death of harbottle Grimston, English politician (b. 1603)   

1694  Death of Henry Booth, 1st Earl of Warrington, English politician (b. 1651) on this day in history.   

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

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