This day in History - January 22

401 Historic Events for January 22
1700 Death Jacob Balthasar Schutz, composer, dies at 39
1707 Birth Carl Hockh, composer
1709 Birth Joseph Reipel, composer
1727 Birth Claude-Benigne Balbastre, composer
1729 Birth Giuseppe Luigi Tibaldi, composer
1729 Birth G E Lessing, writer
1729 Birth Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, Germany, critic/dramatist
1748 Birth Lewis Edson, composer
1753 Birth Peter Fuchs, composer
1756 Birth Vincenzo Righini, composer
1758 Event Russian troops occupy K”nigsberg, East Prussia [OS=Jan 11]
1760 Event Battle at Wandewash India: British troops beat French
1766 Birth Antoine-Vincent Arnault, French writer (Les V‚nitiens)
1771 Event Spain cedes Falkland Islands to Britain
1775 Event Marshal Oscar von Lubomirski expels Jews from Warsaw Poland
1779 Birth Stefano Pavesi, composer
1781 Death Johann Siebenkas, composer, dies at 66
1781 Birth Fran‡ois-Antoine Habeneck, composer
1788 Birth Lord [George Gordon Noel] Byron, England, romantic poet (Don Juan)
1796 Death Bernhard Hupfeld, composer, dies at 78
1798 Death Lewis Morris, US farmer (signed Decl of Independence), dies at 71
1798 Event Coup of Midderigh
1798 Death Matija A Reljkovic, Croatian writer (Satire of Wild Man), dies at 66
1799 Death Horace B de Saussure, Swiss physicist/geologist/alpinist, dies at 58
1800 Birth Nat Turner, slave that revolted [or Oct 2]