This day in History - May 13

390 Historic Events for May 13
1830 Birth Zebulon Baird Vance, Governor (Confederacy), died in 1894
1831 Birth Willem baron of Goltstein of Oldenaller, Dutch minister of Colonies
1831 Death Christian G K”rner, German lawyer, dies at 74
1832 Death Georges Cuvier, French zoologist (La RŠgne Animal), dies at 62
1835 Event 1st foreign embassy in Hawaii forms
1835 Death John Nash, British town planner/architect (Regent's Park), dies
1839 Death Israel Ashkenazi of Shklov, found Ashkenazic community (1815), dies
1839 Death Joseph Fesch, French cardinal/war commission/earl/senator, dies
1840 Birth Alphonse Daudet, writer
1840 Birth L-M Alphonse Daudet, French writer (Tartarin of Tarascon)
1842 Birth Arthur Seymour Sullivan, London England, composer (Gilbert and Sullivan)
1843 Birth Count Paul J Smet de Naeyer, Belgian politician
1846 Event US declares war on M‚xico, 2 months after fighting begins
1847 Birth Johannes Haarklou, composer
1854 Birth Paul Klengel, composer
1854 Birth Louis H Chrispijn, Dutch director (Lost and Found, Silvia Silombra)
1856 Birth Peter Henry Emerson, 1st to promote photography as an independent art
1857 Birth Ronald Ross, England, pathologist (Nobel 1902)
1859 Birth Eugust Enna, composer
1861 Event Queen Victoria announces England's position of neutrality
1864 Event -16] Atlanta Campaign-Battle of Resaca Georgia
1864 Death Junius Daniel, Confederate brig-general, dies at 35
1865 Event S Brownsville, TX (Palmito Ranch) Final engagement of Civil War PVT John J Williams of 34th Indiana is last man killed
1866 Birth Ottokar Eugen Novacek, composer
1867 Birth Frank Brangwyn, Wales, painter/muralist/cartoonist (Willam Morris)