Today in History for May 1845

Months in 1845: January February March April June July August September October November December

Historical Events

Events 1 - 8 of 8

2nd - Domingo Sarmiento publishes "Civilización y Barbarie"
3rd - 1st black lawyer (Macon B Allen) admitted to bar (Mass)
3rd - Fire kills 1,600 in popular theater in Canton China
14th - Utrecht-Arnhem Railway opens
17th - Rubber band patents
20th - 1st legislative assembly convenes in Hawaii
20th - HMS Erebus and HMS Terror with 134 men under John Franklin sail from the River Thames in England, beginning a disastrous expedition to find the Northwest Passage. All hands are lost.
28th - Fire in Quebec Canada, 1,500 houses destroyed

Famous Birthdays

Birthdays 1 - 6 of 6

7th - Jacob van Stolk Azn, timber merchant/art collector
12th - Gabriel Urbain Faure, Pamiers France, composer (Requiem, Ballade)
15th - Ilja [Elias] Metsjnikov, USSR, zoologist/bacteriologist (Nobel 1908)
16th - Ilya Ilyich Mechnikov, Russian microbiologist, Nobel laureate (d. 1916)
25th - Lip Pike, American baseball player (d. 1883)
30th - Amadeus/Amadeo I, duke of Aosta and King of Spain (1870-73)

Famous Deaths

Deaths 1 - 6 of 6

2nd - August Pauly, German writer (Real Encyclopedia), dies at 48
11th - Karoly Filtsch, composer, dies at 14
12th - August Wilhelm Schlegel, German poet/interpreter/critic, dies at 77
12th - János Bacsanyi, Hungarian poet (b. 1763)
15th - Samuel I Wiselius, Dutch lawyer/businessman/writer, dies at 76
19th - Maria EJ Versfelt, mistress of general Moreau/marshal Ney, dies at 68