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Wikipedia.
Events:
February 6 - The first minstrel show in the United States The Virginia Minstrels opens
(Bowery Amphitheatre in New York City).
February 11 - Giuseppe Verdi's opera I Lombardi premieres in Milan.
May 22 - The first major wagon train headed for the northwest sets out with one
thousand pioneers from Elm Grove, Missouri on the Oregon Trail.
October 13 - In New York City, Henry Jones and 11 others found B'nai B'rith (the
oldest Jewish service organization in the world).
December 17 - First publication of Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol.
Quaternions are discovered by William Rowan Hamilton.
The Economist is first published.
Bishop's University is founded.
Births:
January 2 -
Leendert van den Houten.
January 3 -
Jacomina van den Houten.
January 5 -
Maria van Houten.
January 10 -
Frank James, American outlaw (+ 1915).
Januari 14 -
Cornelis van den Houten.
January 29 -
William McKinley, 25th President of the United States (+ 1901).
February 5 -
Pieternella Sara van den Houten.
February 25 -
Jan van den Houten.
March 4 -
Johannis van der Werf.
April 2 -
Maarten van den Houten.
April 4 -
William Jackson, photographer.
April 21 -
Jacob Noteboom.
April 25 - Princess
Alice of the United Kingdom, second daughter of Queen Victoria
and Prince Albert.
May 2 -
Poulus (Paulus) Ruit.
June 3 -
Frederick VIII of Denmark, King.
June 15 -
Edvard Grieg, composer (+ 1907).
June 20 -
Felix van den Houten.
July 16 -
Jan van de Linde.
August 1 -
Robert Todd Lincoln, American statesman, businessman (+ 1926).
September 11 -
Pieter van den Houten.
October 14 -
Willem Rietdijk.
October 16 -
Marie Louise Virginie Kivits.
November 4 -
Aart van den Houten.
November 5 -
Jan van den Houten.
November 27 -
Philippus Spits.
November 27 -
Elizabeth Stride, third confirmed victim of Jack the Ripper (+ 1888).
December 11 -
Heinrich Hermann Robert Koch, German bacteriologist (+ 1910).
Deaths:
January 2 -
Simon van der Vlugt.
February 22 -
Cornelis van den Houten.
March 2 -
Krina van den Houten.
March 29 -
Johannes Keuse.
April 17 -
Samuel Morey, American inventor.
April 22 -
Maarten van den Houten.
May 9 -
Stoffelina van den Houten.
May 14 -
Adriaan van den Houten.
June 6 -
Friedrich Hölderlin, German poet, novelist, and dramatist.
March 27 -
Karl Salomo Zachariae Von Lingenthal, German jurist
October 16 -
Johanna van den Houten.
October 17 -
Aart van den Houten.
William Abbot - english actor.
Francis Scott Key, writer of the "Star Spangled Banner".
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