What Happened In January 1864 In History

Historical Events for January, 1864

• 21st » The Tauranga Campaign begins during the Maori Wars.

Famous Birthdays on January in 1864

• 1st » Qi Baishi, Chinese painter (d. 1957)
• 1st » Alfred Stieglitz, American photographer (d. 1946)
• 5th » Bob Caruthers, American baseball player (d. 1911)
• 7th » Seo Jae-pil, South Korean-American journalist and activist (d. 1951)
• 8th » Prince Albert Victor, Duke of Clarence and Avondale (d. 1892)
• 9th » Vladimir Steklov, Russian mathematician and physicist (d. 1926)
• 10th » Grand Duke Peter Nikolaevich of Russia (d. 1931)
• 11th » Thomas Dixon, Jr., American minister, lawyer, and politician (d. 1946)
• 13th » Wilhelm Wien, German physicist, Nobel Prize in Physics e.g Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1928)
• 21st » Paul Troje, German politician, List of mayors of Marburg called Mayor of Marburg (d. 1942)
• 24th » Marguerite Durand, French actress, journalist, and activist (d. 1936)
• 25th » Julije Kempf, Croatian historian and author (d. 1934)
• 26th » József Pusztai, Slovene-Hungarian poet and journalist (d. 1934)
• 28th » Charles Williams Nash, American businessman, founded Nash Motors (d. 1948)
• 28th » Herbert Akroyd Stuart, English inventor, invented the Hot bulb engine and Hornsby-Akroyd oil engine (d. 1927)
• 30th » James Mitchel, Irish-American weight thrower (d. 1921)

Famous Deaths for January 1864

• 7th » Caleb Blood Smith, American journalist and politician, 6th U.S. Secretary of the Interior (b. 1808)
• 13th » Stephen Foster, American composer and songwriter (b. 1826)
• 15th » Isaac Nathan, English-Australian composer and journalist (b. 1792)
• 16th » Anton Schindler, Austrian author (b. 1795)
• 28th » Émile Clapeyron, French physicist and engineer (b. 1799)

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