Karoly Filtsch, composer

Birth

Congress authorizes Indian removal from all states to western prairie

Event

Eliza Ann Gardner, underground railway conductor

Birth

Johann Christian Friedrich Haeffner, composer, dies at 74

Death

Anton Reicha, composer, dies at 66

Death

Basil Wilson Duke, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1916

Birth

Thomas Busby, composer, dies

Death

Giovanni Sgambati, composer

Birth

Noah Webster, lexicographer (Webster's Dictionary), dies at 84

Death

Leon Felix Augustin Joseph Vasseur, composer

Birth

Fire in Quebec Canada, 1,500 houses destroyed

Event

Princess WFLC Marianne and Albrecht of Prussia separate

Event

Anne Bront‚, novelist, dies

Death

Sojourner Truth attends Women's Rights Convention

Event

Dick Barlow, cricketer (immortal England all-rounder of 1880's)

Birth

Dion Boucicault's "Foul Play," premieres in London

Event

Lev A Ms, Russian nobleman/poet, dies at 40 [5/16]

Death

Henry W Slocum Jr, tennis champ (US Open-1888)

Birth

Edmund Kirby Jr, Union-brig-gen, dies of injuries at 23

Death

1st black regiment (54 Mass) leaves Boston to fight in Civil War

Event

Georg Adler, German state economist

Birth

Henry H Giesy, US Union-brig-general, dies in battle

Death

Gerrit Grijns, Dutch physiologist (Vitamin E)

Birth

Dutch govt of Zuylen van Nijevelt/Heemskerk forms

Event

Claude Anet, [Jean Schopfer], French writer (Fille Perdue)

Birth