24/02/0303 - 1st official Roman edict for persecution of Christians issued 16/02/0374 - 9th recorded perihelion passage of Halley's Comet 27/02/0837 - 15th recorded perihelion passage of Halley's Comet 28/02/0870 - 8th Ecumenical council ends in Constantinople 02/02/1461 - 2nd battle of St Alban's-Lancastrian defeat Yorkists 24/02/1530 - 1st imperial coronation by a Pope, Charles V crowned by Clement V 10/02/1535 - 12 nude anabaptists run through Amsterdam streets 27/02/1557 - 1st Russian Embassy opens in London, Russia and US sign trade agreement 11/02/1573 - 1st European, Francis Drake sees the Pacific (from Panama) 05/02/1644 - 1st US livestock branding law passed, by Connecticut 06/02/1651 - -7] Cardinal Mazarin flees Paris 16/02/1659 - 1st known check (ś400) (on display at Westminster Abbey) 20/02/1673 - 1st recorded wine auction held (London) 03/02/1690 - 1st paper money in America issued (colony of Mass) 04/02/1697 - 3 VOC-ships anchor at Dirk-Hartogeiland, Australia 04/02/1699 - 350 rebellious Streltsi executed in Moscow 20/02/1725 - 10 sleeping Indians scalped by whites in NH for ś100/scalp bounty 26/02/1732 - 1st mass celebrated in 1st American Catholic church, Philadelphia 08/02/1735 - 1st opera in US "Flora," opens in Charleston, SC 18/02/1735 - 1st opera performed in America, "Flora," in Charleston, SC 10/02/1749 - 10th (final) volume of Fielding's "Tom Jones" is published 28/02/1749 - 1st edition of Henry Fieldings' "Tom Jones" published 16/02/1751 - 1st publication of Gray's "Elegy Written in a Country Church Yard" 25/02/1751 - 1st performing monkey exhibited in America, NYC (admission 1›) 15/02/1768 - 1st mustard manufactured in America advertised, Philadelphia 20/02/1768 - 1st American chartered fire insurance company opens (Penn) 17/02/1772 - 1st partition of Poland-Russia and Prussia, joined later by Austria 22/02/1775 - 1st US joint stock company (to make cloth) offers shares at ś10 17/02/1776 - 1st volume of Gibbon's "Decline and Fall of Roman Empire" published 22/02/1784 - 1st US ship to trade with China, "Empress of China," sails from NY 04/02/1787 - 1st Anglican bishops of NY and Pennsylvania consecrated in London 01/02/1788 - 1st US steamboat patent issued, by Georgia to Briggs and Longstreet 04/02/1789 - 1st electoral college chooses Washington and Adams as Pres and VP 25/02/1791 - 1st Bank of US chartered 12/02/1793 - 1st US fugitive slave law passed; requires return of escaped slaves 25/02/1793 - 1st cabinet meeting (At George Washington's home) 11/02/1794 - 1st session of US Senate open to the public 14/02/1794 - 1st US textile machinery patent granted, to James Davenport, Phila 07/02/1795 - 11th Amendment to US Constitution ratified, affirms power of states 13/02/1795 - 1st state university in US opens, University of North Carolina 19/02/1797 - 1/3 of papal domain ceded to France 13/02/1799 - 1st US law regulating insurance passed, by Massachusetts 15/02/1799 - 1st US printed ballots authorized, Pennsylvania 25/02/1799 - 1st federal forestry legislation authorizes purchase of timber land 02/02/1802 - 1st leopard exhibited in US, Boston (admission 25›) 25/02/1803 - 1,800 sovereign German states unite into 60 states 18/02/1804 - 1st US land-grant college, Ohio University, Athens Ohio, chartered 21/02/1804 - 1st locomotive, Richard Trevithick's, runs for 1st time, in Wales 24/02/1807 - 17 die and 15 wounded in a crush to witness execution of Holloway, Heggerty and Elizabeth Godfrey in England 01/02/1810 - 1st insurance co managed by blacks (American Insurance Co of Phila) 28/02/1810 - 1st US fire insurance joint-stock company organized, Philadelphia 07/02/1812 - 8.2 earthquake shakes New Madrid, Missouri 23/02/1813 - 1st US raw cotton-to-cloth mill founded in Waltham, Mass 27/02/1813 - 1st federal vaccination legislation enacted 13/02/1816 - -14] Teatro San Carlo in Naples destroyed by fire 05/02/1817 - 1st US gas co incorporated, Baltimore (coal gas for street lights) 17/02/1817 - 1st US city lit by gas (Baltimore) 07/02/1818 - 1st successful US educational magazine "Academician," begins (NYC) 28/02/1819 - 1st public performance of a Schubert song, "Sch„fers Klageleid" 06/02/1820 - 1st organized emigration of blacks back to Africa (NY to Sierra Leone) 27/02/1827 - 1st Mardi Gras celebration in New Orleans 28/02/1827 - 1st commercial railroad in US, Baltimore and Ohio (BandO) chartered 21/02/1828 - 1st American Indian newspaper in US, "Cherokee Phoenix," published 19/02/1831 - 1st practical US coal-burning locomotive makes 1st trial run, Penn 06/02/1832 - 1st appearance of cholera at Edinburgh, Scotland 13/02/1832 - 1st appearance of cholera at London 18/02/1834 - 1st US labor newspaper, "The Man," published, NYC 26/02/1834 - 1st US interstate crime compact (NY-NJ) ratified 24/02/1836 - 3,000 Mexicans attack 182 Texans at Alamo, lasts 13 days 08/02/1837 - 1st VP chosen by Senate, Richard Johnson (Van Buren admin) 25/02/1837 - 1st US electric printing press patented by Thomas Davenport 18/02/1841 - 1st continuous filibuster in US Senate began, lasting until March 11 15/02/1842 - 1st adhesive postage stamps in US (private delivery company), NYC 21/02/1842 - 1st known sewing machine patented in US, John Greenough, Wash DC 28/02/1844 - 12-inch gun aboard USS Princeton explodes 21/02/1846 - 1st US woman telegrapher, Sarah G Bagley, Lowell, Mass 04/02/1847 - 1st US telegraph co established in Maryland 02/02/1848 - 1st ship load of Chinese arrive in SF 26/02/1848 - 2nd French Republic forms 26/02/1848 - 2nd French Republic proclaimed 18/02/1849 - 1st regular steamboat service to California starts (or 02/28) 28/02/1849 - 1st boat load of gold rush prospectors arrives in SF from east coast 11/02/1851 - 1st cricket 1st-class game in Australia, Tasmania v Vic, Launceston 02/02/1852 - 1st British public men's toilet opens (Fleet St London) 11/02/1852 - 1st British public female toilet opens (Bedford Street London) 22/02/1854 - 1st meeting of Republican Party (Michigan) 22/02/1856 - 1st national meeting of Republican Party (Pittsburgh) 24/02/1857 - 1st perforated US postage stamps delivered to govt 11/02/1858 - 1st apparition of Mary to 14-year-old Bernadette of Lourdes France 25/02/1859 - 1st use of "insanity plea" to prove innocence 01/02/1860 - 1st rabbi to open House of Representatives, Morris Raphall of NYC 05/02/1861 - 1st moving picture peep show machine is patented by Samuel Goodale 06/02/1861 - 1st meeting of Provisional Congress of Confederate States of America 13/02/1861 - 1st military action to result in Congressional Medal of Honor, AZ 10/02/1863 - 1st US fire extinguisher patent granted to Alanson Crane, Virginia 01/02/1864 - 2nd German-Danish war begins 04/02/1864 - 24th Amendment abolishes Poll tax 06/02/1864 - -7] Skirmish at Barnett's Ford Virginia 21/02/1864 - 1st US Catholic parish church for blacks dedicated, Baltimore 21/02/1864 - -22] Battle at Okolona, Mississippi
16/11/1873 - W[illiam] C[hristopher] Handy, Alabama, jazz star (St Louis Blues) 21/01/1885 - Huddie Ledbetter, "Leadbelly", blues singer [or 12/1/89, 1/29/89] 20/01/1888 - Leadbelly, Louisiana, blues 12 string guitarist (Rock Island Line) 26/06/1893 - "Big Bill" Broonzy, Miss, blues singer/guitarist (Blues by Broonzy) 01/04/1895 - Alberta Hunter, blues singer/composer (Downhearted Blues) 09/04/1895 - Mance Lipscomb, Texas, blues musician (Texas Sharecropper) 30/04/1896 - Gary Davis, Laurens SC, blues/folk guitarist (A Little More Faith) 15/06/1900 - Paul J Mares, US, jazz trumpetist/composer (Farewell blues) 21/03/1902 - Eddie James "Son" House, folk blues musician (Delta Blues) 26/08/1903 - Jimmy Rushing, US blues singer 05/09/1907 - Sunnyland Albert Luandrew Slim, blues pianist 15/02/1910 - 9th earl of Jersey, English large landowner/art collector 28/05/1910 - T-Bone Walker, Linden Tx, blues guitarist (Funky Town, Well Done) 08/05/1911 - Robert Johnson, blues singer (King of Delta Blues Singer) 18/05/1911 - Joe Turner, KC, blues singer (Corrine Corrina, Shake Rattle and Roll) 15/09/1911 - Silas Hogan, blues singer/guitarist 12/06/1912 - Eddie Williams, blues/Jazz Bassist 30/03/1914 - Sonny Boy Williamson, [John Lee], blues musician (Down and Out Blues) 02/09/1914 - Booker T Laury, blues pianist/vocalist 25/11/1914 - Eddie Boyd, blues vocal/pianist (Mississippi) 30/11/1914 - Brownie McGhee, Knoxville TN, blues guitarist 01/07/1915 - Willie Dixon, Vicksburg Miss, bassist (Walkin' the Blues) 21/07/1915 - Floyd McDaniel, blues singer/guitarist 30/11/1915 - Walter Brown "Brownie" McGhee, blues singer/guitarist 27/07/1917 - Moses Rascoe, blues Singer 22/08/1917 - John Lee Hooker, Clarksdale Mississippi, blues guitarist (Canned Heat) 12/12/1918 - Joe Williams, Cordele Ga, jazz singer (Everyday I have the Blues) 25/04/1923 - Albert King, Mississippi, blues singer/guitarist (Bad Look Blues) 18/04/1924 - Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown, Vinton La, blues singer (Mary is Fine) 18/06/1925 - Herman "Ace" Wallace, blues guitarist/singer 25/06/1925 - Clifton Chenier, Opelousas La, blues singer (Bayou Blues) 06/09/1925 - Jimmy Reed, Mississippi, blues singer (Soulin', Big Boss Man) 16/09/1925 - B[lues] B[oy] King, Itta Bena Miss, blues singer (Thrill is Gone) 30/11/1925 - Maxwell Street Jimmy Charles Davis Thomas, blues musician 03/01/1926 - Danny Overbea, blues singer/guitarist 11/12/1926 - Big Mama Thornton, blues singer (Ball and Chain, Stronger than Dirt) 19/04/1928 - Alexis Korner, Paris, musician (Blues Inc-Bootleg Him) 16/08/1928 - Eddie Kirkland, Jamaican/US blues guitarist (Have Mercy) 25/11/1928 - James "Jimmy" Johnson, US gospel/blues singer/guitarist 12/12/1928 - Lonesome Sundown, blues singer/guitarist 10/01/1930 - Byron "Wild Child" Gipson, blues singer 27/01/1930 - Bobby "Blue" Bland, Rosemark TN, blues singer (Call on the Drummer) 07/04/1932 - Louis "Mr Bo" Collins, blues SInger 01/10/1932 - Albert Collins, Leona TX, blues guitarist (Frosty, Showdown) 27/02/1933 - 6th marquess of Bute, Scottish large landowner/bibliophile 29/12/1933 - Prez "Kidd" Kenneth, blues singer/guitarist 09/06/1934 - Wild Jimmy Spruill, blues guitarist 30/09/1934 - Freddie King, Gilmer Tx, blues singer (Hideaway) 09/12/1934 - [Amos] Junior Wells, Memphis Tn, blues singer (In My Younger Days) 09/01/1935 - Kenneth "Buddy" Scott, blues guitarist/Singer 16/04/1935 - Haskell "Cool Papa" Sadler, blues singer/guitarist 01/07/1935 - James Cotton, blues vocalist 28/09/1935 - Koko Taylor, [Cora Walton], US vocalist (Queen of the Blues) 30/07/1936 - George "Buddy" Guy, US blues guitarist (Stone Crazy) 04/12/1936 - Larry Davis, blues singer/guitarist 27/03/1937 - Johnny "Clyde" Copeland, US blues guitarist/singer (Lion's Den) 04/07/1938 - Bill Withers, Slab Fork WV, rhythm and blues singer (Lean on Me) 07/10/1939 - Colin Cooper, rocker (Climax Blues Band) 25/06/1940 - Clint Warwick, [Eccles], Birmingham England, bassist (Moody Blues) 07/01/1941 - Robert Hicks, rocker (Paul Butterfield Blues Band) 12/01/1941 - Long John Baldry, England, blues vocalist (Don't try to Lay No Boogie) 01/11/1941 - Johnny Kendall, [Johan Donkerkaat], Dutch blues singer 27/12/1941 - Michael Pinder, rocker (Moody Blues-Nights in White Satin) 29/12/1941 - Ray Thomas, England, rock vocalist (Moody Blues-Nights in White Satin) 30/03/1942 - Graeme Edge, England, rock drummer (Moody Blues-Your Wildest Dreams) 12/12/1942 - Mike Pinder, Birmingham England, rocker (Moody Blues) 17/12/1942 - Paul Butterfield, Chicago, blues musician (Better Days) 19/01/1943 - Janis Joplin, Port Arthur Tx, bluesy rock singer (Down on Me) 02/03/1943 - Geogre Benson, jazz/blues guitarist (Breezin', This Masquerade) 20/07/1943 - John Lodge, Birmingham, bassist (Moody Blues-Nights in White Satin) 28/07/1943 - Mike Bloomfield, Chicago Ill, blues guitarist/singer (Analine) 13/11/1943 - John Paul Hammond, NYC, blues singer (So Many Roads) 31/01/1944 - Charley Musselwhite, blues musician (Stand Back, Louisiana Fog) 29/09/1944 - Mike Post, composer (Rockford Files, Hill St Blues, Magnum PI) 29/10/1944 - Denny Laine, [Brian Hines], rock guitarist (Moody Blues, Wings) 16/04/1945 - Stefan Grossman, NYC, country blues singer (Yazoo Basin Boogie) 14/10/1946 - Justin Hayward, England, vocalist (Moody Blues-Nights in White Satin) 15/03/1947 - Ry[land] Cooder, LA, blues guitarist (Crossroads) 01/10/1948 - Ellen McIlwaine, Nashville, blues singer (Honky Tonky Angel) 13/12/1948 - Jeff "Skunk" Baxter, guitarist (Steely Dan-Deacon Blues) 26/01/1949 - Derek Holt, rocker (Climax Blues Band) 25/06/1952 - Tim Finn, rocker (Split Enz, Crowded House, Puberty Blues) 27/08/1953 - Willy "Mink" Deville, [Borsay], US blues/rock singer (Hey! Joe) 28/03/1955 - Reba McEntire, McAlester Ok, country singer (Can't Even Get the Blues) 14/12/1958 - Mike Scott, Scottish rocker (Blues Inc, Waterboys-Rainbow Warrior) 30/11/1970 - Des'ree, rhythm and blues singer 27/01/1981 - Jonny Lang, blues musician
Deaths in Music
Results 1 - 48 of 48 for keyword(s) Blues
04/03/1933 - Willie Walker, US jazz singer/guitarist (Dupree Blues), dies at 36 16/08/1938 - Robert Johnson, US Delta-blues singer/guitarist, poisoned at 27 22/12/1939 - Ma Rainey, "Mother of the Blues", US blues singer/composer, dies at 53 18/08/1949 - Paul J Mares, US jazz trumpetist/composer (Tin Roof Blues), dies at 49 06/12/1949 - Leadbelly, [Huddie William Ledbetter], blues singer, dies at 64 06/02/1958 - 7 soccer players of Manchester United, die in an aircrash at Munich 28/03/1958 - William C Handy, US conductor/composer (St Louis Blues), dies at 84 15/08/1958 - William L C "Big Bill" Broonzy, US blues singer/guitarist, dies at 65 24/05/1963 - Elmore James, blues guitarist, dies at 45 of a heart attack 08/06/1972 - Jimmy Rushing, US blues singer, dies at 68 24/05/1974 - Duke Ellington, blues singer, dies of cancer at 75 27/07/1974 - Lightning Slim, blues singer (Nothing But the Devil), dies at 61 16/03/1975 - T-Bone Walker, blues guitarist (Funky Town, Well Done), dies at 64 30/04/1983 - Muddy Waters, US blues singer/guitarist (Mad Love), dies at 68 30/04/1984 - Muddy Waters, blues singer/guitarist (Hoochie Coochie Man), dies at 68 17/10/1984 - Alberta Hunter, US blues singer/composer, dies at 89 01/11/1986 - Sippie Wallace, blues singer, dies at 88 27/08/1990 - Stevie Ray Vaughan, blues guitarist, dies in a helicopter crash at 35 29/01/1992 - Willie Dixon, blues composer (I'm a Man, Backdoor Man), dies at 76 20/04/1992 - Johnny Shines, Delta blues singer/guitarist, dies at 76 09/06/1992 - Clarence Miller, blues/jazz vocalist, dies at 69 of a heart attack 21/12/1992 - Albert King, US blues singer/guitarist (Crosscut Saw), dies at 71 06/01/1993 - John B "Dizzy" Gillespe, blues trumpeter, dies of cancer at 75 30/05/1993 - Sun Ra, blues pianist/orchestra leader, dies of strokes at 79 24/11/1993 - Albert Collins, blues guitarist (Don't Lose Your Cool), dies at 61 09/01/1994 - Silas Hogan, blues singer/guitarist, dies at 82 30/01/1994 - Byron "Wild Child" Gipson, blues Singer, dies at 64 06/03/1994 - Moses Rascoe, blues singer, dies at 77 19/04/1994 - Larry Davis, blues Singer/Guitarist, dies at 57 06/05/1994 - Haskell "Cool Papa" Sadler, blues singer/guitarist, dies at 59 11/05/1994 - Danny Overbea, blues singer/guitarist, dies at 68 13/07/1994 - Eddie Boyd, blues vocal/pianist, dies at 79 01/01/1995 - Ted Hawkins, US blues singer (Watch Your Step), dies at 58 17/03/1995 - Sunnyland Smart, jazz/blues singer/pianist (Delta Blues), dies at 87 24/03/1995 - Joey Long, blues/cajun guitarist, dies at 62 23/04/1995 - Lonesome Sundown, blues singer/guitarist, dies at 66 27/06/1995 - Prez "Kidd" Kenneth, blues singer/guitarist, dies at 61 23/07/1995 - Floyd McDaniel, blues singer/guitarist, dies at 80 13/08/1995 - Jesse Thomas, blues singer, dies at 84 19/09/1995 - Louis "Mr Bo" Collins, blues SInger, dies at 63 21/09/1995 - Vernell Townsend, blues/gospel singer, dies at 64 23/09/1995 - Booker T Laury, blues pianist/vocalist, dies at 81 25/11/1997 - Fenton Robinson, US blues guitarist (Tennessee Woman), dies at 62 15/01/1998 - Amos "Junior" Wells, blues musician, dies at 63 16/01/1998 - David "Junior" Kimbrough, blues musician, dies at 67 26/01/1998 - S P Leary, Texan Blues drummer (Muddy Waters), dies at 67 10/06/2004 - Ray Charles, Grammy winning crooner who blended gospel and blues in such crowd-pleasers as "What'd I Say" and ballads like "Georgia on My Mind" dies aged 73 25/12/2006 - James Brown, rhythm and blues, gospel, jazz, soul and funk singer or simply the Godfather of Soul (Genius of Love, Hot Pants) dies at 73 from heart failure
