Maria Theresia Hapsburg, Queen of Austria, dies at 63

Death

Andr‚s Bello, Venezuela poet/diplomat/scholar (Silvas Americanas)

Birth

Domenico Gaetano Maria Donizetti, composer

Birth

Amos Bronson Alcott, US educator/poet (Concord Days)

Birth

Wilhelm Hauff, writer

Birth

Dessalines and Christophe declare St Domingue (Haiti) independent

Event

Christian Doppler, Austrian physicist (Doppler effect)

Birth

Wendell Phillips, women's suffrage/antislavery/prison reformer

Birth

Napoleon's Grand Army crosses Berezina River in retreat from Russia

Event

Giambattista Bodoni, Ital stamp cutter/publisher (bodoni), dies at 73

Death

Elias Canneman (Lib) becomes minister of Finance

Event

Stephen Augustus Hurlbut, Mjr Gen (Union volunteers), died in 1882

Birth

Carl Binder, composer

Birth

George Brown, Canada, publisher (Toronto Globe), PM (L) (1858)

Birth

1st Italian opera in US, "Barber of Seville" premieres (NYC)

Event

Louisa May Alcott, Germantown Pa, author (Little Women)

Birth

Louis Douglass Watkins, Brig General (Union volunteers), died in 1868

Birth

Thomas Edward Greenfield Ransom, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers)

Birth

Aeneas Mackay, Baron/Dutch minister of interior/Colonies

Birth

Ludwig Anzengruber, Austrian playwright (Der Schandfleck)

Birth

Marco Santucci, composer, dies at 81

Death

Indians kill Marcus and Narcissa Whitman, 11 settle in Walla Walla Ore

Event

Ambrose Fleming, inventor (diode)

Birth

Paul Joseph Guillaume Hillemacher, composer

Birth

Theobald von Bethmann-Hollweg, German Chancellor/premier Prussia

Birth