Page 3: Historical Events In January - 28

1813  Jan Joseph Rosler, composer, dies at 41 on this day in history.   

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

1815  Andrew Jackson Hamilton, Brig General (Union volunteers), died in 1875 on this day in history.   

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

1818  On January - 28 george Sewall Boutwell, MC (Union), died in 1905   

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 this day in history alexander MacKenzie, (L) 2nd PM of Canada (1873-78)   

1824  On this day in history william Kneass becomes 3rd US chief engraver (1824-40)   

1825  On this day in history george Edward Pickett, Major General (Confederate Army), died in 1875   

1828  On January - 28 michel Abeloos, Flemish sculptor   

1829  On this day in history william Burke, murderer/body snatcher, executed in Edinburgh   

1830  The opera "Fra Diavolo" is produced (Paris) on January - 28.   

1830  Opera "Fra Diavolo," premieres in Paris on January - 28.   

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 this day in history.   

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

1841  The birth of Sir Henry Morton Stanley, Sent to find the missing Dr Livingstone on this day in history.   

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

1846  On January - 28 battle of Allwal, Brits beat Sikhs in Punjab (India)   

1848  On January - 28 king of Naples grants his subjects a constitution   

1851  On this day in history northwestern University (Chicago) chartered   

1853  On this day in history jose Martí y Perez, Cuba, poet/essayist/politician   

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

1855  On January - 28 william Seward Burroughs, NY, inventor (recording adding machine)   

1858  On January - 28 john Brown organized raid on Arsenal at Harper's Ferry   

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

1864  On January - 28 battle of New Bern, NC   

1864  Herbert Akroyd Stuart, English engineer on this day in history.   

1865  President Jefferson Davis names 3 peace commissioners on January - 28.   

1865  On January - 28 pres Jefferson Davis names 3 peace commissioners   

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1225  Saint Thomas Aquinas (d. 1274) was born on January - 28.   

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  On this day in history birth of john Barclay, Scottish satirist/poet (Euphormio's Satyricon)   

1600  On January - 28 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 this day in history.   

1061  On this day in history death of duke SpytihnÄ›v II of Bohemia (b. 1031)   

1119  On this day in history gelasius II, [Giovannis Caetani], pope (1118-19), dies   

1256  On this day in history willem II, earl of Holland/German emperor (1238, 47-56), dies at 22   

1271  On January - 28 death of isabella of Aragon, queen of Philip III of France (b. 1247)   

1393  Death of Earl of Joigny, burned at royal ball on January - 28.   

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

1528  On January - 28 philips of Cleve, ruler of Ravenstein, dies