What Happened in January 1828

Historical Events

Jan 3 Karl Collan, Finnish composer, born in Iisalmi, Finland (d. 1871)
Jan 5 August Valentine Kautz, German-American Brevet Major General (Union Army), born in Baden, Germany (d. 1895)
Jan 10 Herman Koeckemann, German Catholic prelate, born in Ostbevern, Germany (d. 1892)
Jan 17 Eduard Reményi, Hungarian violinist and composer, born in Miskolc, Austria-Hungary (d. 1898) [some sources cite birth year as 1830]
Jan 17 Lewis Addison Grant, American teacher, lawyer, and Brevet Major General (Union Army), born in Winhall, Vermont (d. 1918)
Jan 23 Calvin Edward Pratt, American Brigadier General (Union Army), born in Worcester County, Massachusetts (d. 1896)
Jan 24 Adam Jacoby Slemmer, American Brigadier General (Union Army), born in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania (d. 1868)
Jan 24 Ferdinand Cohn, German biologist, born in Wrocław, Poland (d. 1898)
Jan 24 Karol Studzinski, Polish violinist and composer, born in The Free, Independent, and Strictly Neutral City of Cracow (now Kraków, Poland) (d. 1883)
Jan 27 Louis Schubert, German, violinist, composer, and pedagogue, born in Dessau, German Confederation (d. 1884)
Jan 27 Samuel Allen Rice, American Attorney General of Iowa and Brigadier General (Union Army), born in Cattaraugus, New York (d. 1864)
Jan 28 Michel Abeloos, Flemish sculptor, born in Leuven (d. 1881)
Jan 28 Thomas Carmichael Hindman, Jr., American attorney, and Confederate Army Major General, born in Knoxville Tennessee (d. 1868)

Jan 9 Pieter 't Hoen, Dutch journalist and patriot (Neder-Rhijn), dies at 83
Jan 10 François de Neufchâteau, French statesman and intellectual figure, dies at 77
Jan 13 Abbé Alexandre-Auguste Robineau, French composer and painter, dies at 80
Jan 25 Caroline Lamb, English aristocrat, author (Glenarvon), wife of William Lamb, lover of Lord Byron, dies at 42
Jan 31 Alexandros Ypsilanti, Greek resistance fighter, dies at 35