Juan Bautista Jose Cabanilles, composer, dies at 67

Death

John Flamsteed observes Uranus for 6th time

Event

Jean-Georges Noverre, French dancer/choreographer (ballet d'action)

Birth

Oliver Ellsworth, 3rd Chief Justice Supreme Court (1796-1800)

Birth

Matthaus Stegmayer, composer

Birth

Charles Nodier, French writer (La f‚e aux miettes)

Birth

French fleet occupies Tobago

Event

French fleet stopped Britain from seizing the Cape of Good Hope

Event

David Cox, English painter (Treatise on landscape painting)

Birth

Premiere of Mozart's Sonata in B flat, K454 (Vienna)

Event

Cornerstone laid for Groningen's new townhall

Event

Earnest Freiherr von Feuchtersleben, Austria, physician/philosopher

Birth

Hermann Schulze-Delitzsch, German politician/reformer [or 1883]

Birth

Rubber is patented

Event

Christian Danner, composer, dies at 55

Death

Abram Duryee, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1890

Birth

Alexander II N Romanov, Tsar of Russia (1855-81)

Birth

Adolph Sutro, SF mayor, built Cliff House, railways, tunnels

Birth

Charles Darwin's expedition sees top of Andes from Patagonia

Event

A Bertrand, writer, dies

Death

Karl Mill”cker, Austria conductor/composer (Beggar Student)

Birth

Macon B Allen and Robert Morris Jr, 1st blacks to open law practice

Event

1st edition of Peter Roget's Thesaurus published

Event

Comet C/1853 G1 (Schweizer) approaches within 0.0839 AUs of Earth

Event

Henri Poincar‚, France, mathematician/astronomer/philosopher

Birth