Bernhard Romberg, German cellist/composer/royal chaplain bandmaster

Birth

Ephraim McDowell, surgeon (pioneered abdominal surgery)

Birth

John Mauritius Quinkhard, portrait painter, dies at 84

Death

Iroquois Indians in NY kill 40 in Cherry Valley Massacre

Event

Michal Wielhorski, composer

Birth

Chrysanthemums are introduced into England from China

Event

Johann/John Zoffany, German painter (Tribuna degl' Uffizi), dies at 77

Death

Johann Zoffany, British? painter, dies at 77

Death

Ben McCulloch, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1862

Birth

Cartagena Colombia declares independence from Spain

Event

Dresden surrenders to allied armies

Event

Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoyevsky, Russia, novelist (Crime and Punishment)

Birth

F M Dostojewski, writer

Birth

Nat Turner, former slave, led a violent insurrection, hanged in VA

Death

Paolo Giorza, composer

Birth

Chile declares war on Bolivia and Peru

Event

Thomas Bailey Aldrich, US, author/editor (Story of a Bad Boy)

Birth

Emma Wedgwood accepts Charles Darwins marriage proposal

Event

Alvan Clark patents telescope

Event

Síren A Kierkegaard, Danish philosopher/theologist, dies at 42

Death

1st Jewish wedding in Buenos Aires Argentina

Event

Pedro V van Alcantara, king of Portugal (1853-61), dies at 24

Death

Opera "La Forza Del Destino" is produced (St Petersburg Russia)

Event

Sherman's troops destroy Rome, Georgia

Event

Alfred Hermann Fried, Germany, pacifist (Nobel 1911)

Birth