376 Historic Events for January 2
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| 1788 |
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Georgia is 4th state to ratify US constitution
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| 1789 |
Death |
Franz Joseph Leonti Meyer von Schavensee, composer, dies at 68
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| 1790 |
Death |
Joseph A Feuchtmayer (Feichtmayer), German rococo sculptor, dies
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| 1790 |
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Mozart's opera "Cos fan tutti" premieres, Vienna
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| 1800 |
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Free black community of Phila petitions Congress to abolish slave
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| 1801 |
Death |
Johann C Lavater, Swiss vicar/philosopher, dies at 59
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| 1803 |
Death |
Ignaz Franz von Beecke, composer, dies at 69
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| 1803 |
Birth |
Gugliemo Libri, [della Somaia], Ital/Fren mathematician/book collector
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| 1807 |
Birth |
Tomasz Napoleon Nidecki, composer
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| 1809 |
Birth |
Friedrich Wilhelm Jahns, composer
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| 1811 |
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US Sen Thomas Pickering is 1st senator censured (revealed confidential documents communicated by the president of the US)
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| 1814 |
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Lord Byron completes "The Corsair"
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| 1818 |
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Lord Byron completes "Childe Harold's Pilgrimage" (4th canto)
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| 1822 |
Birth |
Rudolph J E Clausius, Germany, physicist (thermodynamics)
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| 1830 |
Birth |
Henry Kingsley, English/Australian writer
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| 1831 |
Birth |
Justin Winston, historian/librarian (Harvard)
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| 1831 |
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Liberator, abolitionist newspaper, begins publishing in Boston
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| 1832 |
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1st Curling club in US (Orchard Lake Curling Club) opens
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| 1835 |
Birth |
Charles Russell Lowell Jr, Brig General (Union volunteers)
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| 1837 |
Birth |
Mili Alexeyevich Balakirev, Nizhny-Novgorod, Russia, composer (Tamara)
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| 1839 |
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1st photo of the Moon (French photographer Louis Daguerre)
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| 1842 |
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1st US wire suspension bridge for general traffic opens in Penn
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| 1842 |
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Amy G C A Bonet-Maury, French reformed theologist
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| 1843 |
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Wagner's opera "Der Fliegende Holl„nder" premieres, Dresden
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| 1846 |
Birth |
Sandor Erkel, composer
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