This day in History - January 1

692 Historic Events for January 1
1800 Event Dutch East Indies Company dissolves
1800 Death Louis J M Daubenton, France, zoologist, dies at 83
1801 Event Ireland and Great Britain (England and Scotland) form United Kingdom
1804 Event Haiti gains independence from France (National Day)
1807 Event Cura‡ao is taken by English (until March, 1816)
1808 Event African Benevolent Society (education) forms
1808 Event Sierra Leone becomes a British colony
1808 Event Congress prohibits importation of slaves
1809 Event Holland Brigade under brig gen Chass‚ reaches Madrid
1809 Birth John Pieter Heije, Dutch physician/writer/poet (Silver Fleet)
1814 Event Field marshal Blucher's troops cross the Rhine at Kaub
1815 Birth Charles Renouvier, French philosopher (neocriticism)
1816 Death Fran‡ois Alexander Sallantin, composer, dies at 60
1817 Birth Martin H Klaproth, Germany, chemist
1817 Death Martin H Klaproth, German chemist (uranium), dies at 73
1818 Death Fedele Fenaroli, composer, dies at 87
1818 Event Official reopening of the White House
1819 Birth George Foster Shepley, Brig General (Union volunteers), died in 1878
1819 Birth Arthur Hugh Clough, poet, friend of Matthew Arnold
1823 Birth S ndor Pet”fi, Kikk”r”s, Hungary, poet, revolutionary (J os Vit‚z)
1826 Event Baron Van der Capellen resigns as governor of Dutch-Indies
1827 Birth William Lewis "Old Tige" Cabell, Brig General (Confederate Army)
1827 Event Dutch Trade Company NHM gets opium monopoly on Java
1831 Event William Lloyd Garrison publishes 1st issue of abolitionist journal
1831 Birth William Joseph Westbrook, composer