Page 2: Historical Events In January - 28

1621  On this day in history paulus V, [Camillo Borghese], 233rd pope (1605-21), dies at 68   

1624  On January - 28 sir Thomas Warner founds the first British colony in the Caribbean, on Saint Kitts.   

1627  On January - 28 alfonso Marsh, composer   

1645  On this day in history gottfried Vopelius, composer   

1687  Johannes Hevelius, astronomer (star cataloger), dies on 76th birthday on this day in history.   

1688  Jan Maurits Quinkhard, Dutch portrait painter on this day in history.   

1689  English parliament ends king Charles II reign on January - 28.   

1691  Johann Balthasar Konig, composer on January - 28.   

1693  Anna "Ivanovna", tsarina of Russia (1730-40) (2/7 NS) on this day in history.   

1697  On January - 28 john Fenwick, English conspirator   

1702  Hermanus Noordkerk, Dutch lawyer on this day in history.   

1706  On this day in history john Baskerville, English printer (typeface inventor)   

1714  On this day in history jean-Baptiste Pigalle, French sculptor (Child with Pigeon)   

1717  Mustapha III, Sultan of Turkey (1757-74) on this day in history.   

1722  Johann Ernst Bach, composer on January - 28.   

1724  On this day in history the Russian Academy of Sciences was founded in St. Petersburg by Peter the Great, and implemented in the Senate decree. It was called St. Petersburg Academy of Sciences until 1917.   

1725  Peter I "the Great" Romanov, czar of Russia, dies at 52 [NS=Feb 8] on January - 28.   

1754  On this day in history horace Walpole, in a letter to Horace Mann, coins the word serendipity   

1754  Ludvig Holberg, Danish lawyer/writer (Hendrig og Pernille), dies at 69 on January - 28.   

1756  Hans Adolf Friedrich von Eschstruth, composer on January - 28.   

1757  Antonio Bartolomeo Bruni, composer on January - 28.   

1760  Pownal, Vermont created by Benning Wentworth as one of the New Hampshire Grants on this day in history.   

1768  On January - 28 frederick VI, Danish king (1808-39); lost Norway to Sweden (1814)   

1768  John Wainwright, composer, dies at 44 on January - 28.   

1775  On this day in history peter the Great, Russia   

1782  On January - 28 jean-Baptiste-Bourguignon d'Anville, French geographer, dies at 84   

1784  On this day in history george HG earl of Aberdeen, English secretary of State   

1787  Philadelphia's Free Africa Society organizes on this day in history.   

1788  Lord Gordon found guilty of libel of queen of France on January - 28.   

1788  Captain Arthur Phillip forms English colony at Botany Bay, Sydney on this day in history.   

1807  London's Pall Mall is first street lit by gaslight on January - 28.   

1807  London's Pall Mall is 1st street lit by gaslight on this day in history.   

1810  On this day in history andrew Hofer, Tyrolian rebel against French & Bavarians, shot dead   

1813  Pride and Prejudice is first published in the United Kingdom on this day in history.   

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1225  On this day in history birth of saint Thomas Aquinas (d. 1274)   

1312  Queen Joan II of Navarre (d. 1349) was born on January - 28.   

1457  Henry VII, Pembroke Castle, 1st Tudor king of England (1485-1509) was born on this day in history.   

1540  On January - 28 birth of ludolph van Ceulen, German mathematician (d. 1610)   

1578  Cornelis Haga, Dutch lawyer/ambassador to Constantinople (1611-39) was born on this day in history.   

1582  John Barclay, Scottish satirist/poet (Euphormio's Satyricon) was born on January - 28.   

1600  Clement IX, [Giulio Rospigliosi], Pistoia, Italy, 238th pope (1667-69) was born on this day in history.   

1608  Giovanni Alfonso Borelli, Naples, mathematician/astronomer was born on this day in history.   

0814  Charlemagne, German emperor/Roman Emperor (800-814), dies at 71 on this day in history.   

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  Willem II, earl of Holland/German emperor (1238, 47-56), dies at 22 on January - 28.   

1271  On this day in history death of isabella of Aragon, queen of Philip III of France (b. 1247)   

1393  On January - 28 death of earl of Joigny, burned at royal ball   

1443  On January - 28 death of robert le Maçon, Chancellor of France   

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