Page 3: Historical Events In January - 28

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

1814  On this day in history stendahl's 1st book is published   

1815  On January - 28 andrew Jackson Hamilton, Brig General (Union volunteers), died in 1875   

1817  Friedrich Ludwig Emilius Kunzen, composer, dies at 55 on January - 28.   

1818  George Sewall Boutwell, MC (Union), died in 1905 on this day in history.   

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  On this day in history bellingshausen discovers Alexander Island off Antarctica   

1822  On January - 28 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  George Edward Pickett, Major General (Confederate Army), died in 1875 on January - 28.   

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

1829  On January - 28 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  Franz Wullner, composer on this day in history.   

1833  On this day in history charles George Gordon, London, general (China, Khartoum)   

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

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

1841  Henry Stanley, Engld, journalist/explorer (found Livingston in Africa) on this day in history.   

1846  On this day in history battle of Allwal, Brits beat Sikhs in Punjab (India)   

1848  King of Naples grants his subjects a constitution on this day in history.   

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

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

1855  On this day in history the first locomotive runs from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean on the Panama Railway.   

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  On January - 28 britain formally returns Mosquito Coast to Nicaragua   

1864  Battle of New Bern, NC on January - 28.   

1864  On January - 28 herbert Akroyd Stuart, English engineer   

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

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

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1225  Saint Thomas Aquinas (d. 1274) was born on this day in history.   

1312  On January - 28 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  On this day in history birth of john Barclay, Scottish satirist/poet (Euphormio's Satyricon)   

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

1608  On this day in history birth of giovanni Alfonso Borelli, Naples, mathematician/astronomer   

0814  On this day in history charlemagne, German emperor/Roman Emperor (800-814), dies at 71   

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  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 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