More Events On This Day
Shots fired in the House of Representatives
Burma supply route cleared
Bloody Sunday in Northern Ireland
Japan’s Mazda founded
Gandhi assassinated
Thomas Tallis English composer born in Kent England (d. 1585)
Franciscus Gomarus [Francois Gomaer] Dutch theologist and opera singer born in Bruges Habsburg Netherlands (d. 1641)
Thomas Rolfe American colonial settler and only child of Pocahontas and John Rolfe born in Varina Farms Virginia (d. 1675)
William Sancroft 79th Archbishop of Canterbury born in Fressingfield Suffolk England (d. 1693)
Arnold Geulincx Flemish philosopher (About Virtue) born in Antwerp (d. 1669)
George Villiers 2nd duke of Buckingham England born in London (d. 1687)
Charles Rollin French historian born in Paris (d. 1741)
[Johann] Balthasar Neumann German architect baptized
Johann Joachim Quantz German royal flautist and composer born in Scheden Germany (d. 1773)
Georg Dionysius Ehret German-English botanist and cartoonist born in Heidelberg Germany (d. 1770)
Vigilio Blasio Faitello Italian composer (d. 1768)
Charles De Geer Swedish industrialist and entomologist born in Finspng Sweden (d. 1778)
Ignaz Franz Xaver Kurzinger German composer born in Rosenheim (d. 1797)
Joseph Matthias Kracher Austrian composer born in Mattighofen Austria (d. 1835)
John Lansing Jr. American lawyer and statesman born in Albany New York (d. 1829)
Josef Preindl Austrian organist and composer born in Marbach on the Danube Lower Austria (d. 1823)
Frantiek Xaver Partsch Czech composer born in Duchcov (d. 1822)
Walter Savage Landor English poet and writer (Imaginary Conversations) born in Warwick England (d. 1864)
Adelbert von Chamisso French writer (Peter Schlemihl) born in Champagne (d. 1838)
Edwin Vose Sumner American Major General (Union Army) born in Boston Massachusetts (d. 1863)
Jean-Baptist Capronnier French-Belgian glass painter born in Brussels Belgium (d. 1891)
Nathaniel Prentiss Banks American politician Major General (Union Army) born in Waltham Massachusetts (d. 1894)
John Basil Turchin [Ivan Vasyliovych Turchin] Russian-American Brigadier General (Union Army) born in Don Host Oblast Russian Empire (d. 1901)
Franz Ritter von Hauer Austrian geologist born in Vienna Austria (d. 1899)
Alfred Cummings American Brigadier-General (Confederate Army) born in Augusta Georgia (d. 1910)
Infanta Luisa Fernanda Duchess of Montpensier born in Royal Palace of Madrid Spain (d. 1897)
Oliver Edwards American inventor and Brevet Major General (Union Army) born in Springfield Massachusetts (d. 1904)
Alfred Townsend George American Civil War journalist born in Georgetown Delaware (d. 1914)
Flix Faure 6th President of the French Third Republic (1895-99) born in Paris (d. 1899)
Moritz von Bissing German gov-gen of Belgium (1914-17) born in Ober Bellmannsdorf Prussia (d. 1917)
Francis H. Bradley British idealist philosopher (Appearance and Reality) born in Clapham Surrey England (d. 1924)
Leland Hone Irish cricketer (scored 7 & 6 in only England Test 1879) born in Dublin Ireland (d. 1896)
Tony Mullane Irish-American baseball player born in Cork Ireland (d. 1944)
Jan 30 1018 The Holy Roman Empire and Poland conclude the Peace of Bautzen
Jan 30 1349 Gunther of Schwarzburg chosen German anti-king
Jan 30 1467 Battle at Velke Kostolany Hung king Mtys Corvinus beats Bratrici