January 13, 1864 — Composer Stephen Foster dies
Stephen Foster has been widely hailed as the father of American Music. In the nineteenth century, he was one of...
October 14, 2020
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May 2, 1864 — Giacomo Meyerbeer dies
Born in 1791 in Germany, Giacomo Meyerbeer was one of the foremost exponents of the musical and theatrical form known...
October 9, 2020
December 8, 1864 — The Clifton Suspension Bridge is opened to the public
The Clifton Suspension Bridge was built more than a century after it had first been proposed, from a design by...
October 4, 2020
May 3, 1865 — Abraham Lincoln is buried
The remains of Abraham Lincoln and his son, William Wallace Lincoln, were placed on a funeral train which left Washington,...
September 29, 2020
August 30, 1865 — Tchaikovsky’s Characteristic Dances is first performed in Pavlovsk
Composed by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky when he was only 24, “Characteristic Dances” was the first of his pieces to be...
September 24, 2020
November 11, 1869 — “An Act to provide for the Protection and Management of the Aboriginal Natives of Victoria” is presented to the Victorian Parliament
The first legal attempt to codify the treatment of Australia’s indigenous peoples was largely an attempt to give the government...
September 19, 2020
May 14, 1870 — Michael Davitt is arrested for treason
Michael Davitt was born in County Mayo, Ireland, in the year 1846, during the worst of the Great Famine (known...
September 14, 2020
October 10, 1871 — The Great Chicago Fire is extinguished
The Great Chicago Fire was not, despite early reports, started by Catherine O’Leary’s cow kicking over a lantern – the...
September 9, 2020
March 24, 1874 — Harry Houdini born
Born Ehrich Weisz in Budapest, Hungary, his family emigrated to America when he was four, and lived in Appleton, Wisconsin,...
September 6, 2020
September 5, 1877 — Crazy Horse dies
A great war leader of the Ogala Lakota people, Crazy Horse fought the US Cavalry for more than a decade,...
August 29, 2020
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