User:AnnaKucsma/Datebook

This page is set up a little like the "normal" pages listing events for any given year -- click on one to see what I mean.

I would also request that you do NOT modify this page directly. If you would like to nominate an event or person for inclusion here, please do so at User talk:AnnaKucsma/Datebook. And keep in mind that I'm still working on this page.

Please note that the dates listed here may change. Wikipedia can be changed by anyone, which means dates listed here may not always be entirely accurate. I've inluded footnotes (and a bibliography) on anything with an external source. I will warn you that the transfer from printed sources usually involves a hand-written step, and that my handwriting is sloppy at best; consequently, the human-error version of typos can creep into these entries too.

January

 * January 1, 1511: Katherine of Aragon, the first wife of Henry VIII's six wives, gives birth to a son, Prince Henry. The child would be dead by the end of February that year.
 * January 1, 1801: Giuseppi Piazzi finds the asteroid 1 Ceres.


 * January 3, 1793: Lucretia Mott is born.
 * January 3, 1919: Frank Duveneck dies.


 * January 5, 1933: Calvin Coolidge dies.


 * January 6, 1412: Joan of Arc is born, according to legend. It should be noted that neither she nor anyone else linked her date of birth to the feast of the epiphany, which falls on January 6.
 * January 6, 1540: Anne of Cleves marries Henry VIII . She is the fourth of his six wives.


 * January 7, 1536: Katherine of Aragon, first wife of Henry VIII, dies.


 * January 9, 1431: The court which will try and condemn Joan of Arc assembles in Rouen.
 * January 9, 1859: Carrie Chapman Catt is born.
 * January 9, 1908: Simone de Beauvoir is born.


 * January 10, 1904: Jean-Léon Gérôme dies.


 * January 11, 1755 or 1757: Alexander Hamilton is born.
 * January 11, 1885: Alice Paul is born.


 * January 14, 1836: Henri Fantin-Latour is born.
 * January 14, 1841: Berthe Morisot is born.


 * January 15, 1559: Coronation of Elizabeth I.
 * January 15, 1568: Catherine Carey dies.


 * January 17, 1706: Benjamin Franklin is born.
 * January 17, 1820: Anne Brontë is born.
 * January 17, 1863: Horace Vernet dies.


 * January 19, 1839: Paul Cézanne is born.


 * January 20, 1993: Audrey Hepburn dies.
 * January 20, 1977: Jimmy Carter is sworn in as the 39th President of the United States.


 * January 22, 1561: Francis Bacon is born.


 * January 23, 1832: Édouard Manet is born.
 * January 23, 1849: Elizabeth Blackwell becomes the first woman to earn a medical degree in the U.S.


 * January 25, 1533: Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn marry in secret.
 * January 25, 1882: Virginia Woolf is born.


 * January 27, 1756: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart is born.
 * January 27, 1814: Eugène Viollet-le-Duc is born.
 * January 27, 1967: A fire breaks out during a test before the launch of Apollo 1. All three members of the flight crew are killed.


 * January 28, 1547: Henry VIII dies. His son Edward VI becomes king.
 * January 28, 1813: Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice is published.


 * January 29, 1536: Anne Boleyn bears a stillborn son to Henry VIII.
 * January 29, 1843: William McKinley is born.

February

 * February 3, 1809: Felix Mendelssohn is born.
 * February 3, 1821: Elizabeth Blackwell is born.


 * February 6, 1756: Aaron Burr is born.


 * February 7, 1812: Charles Dickens is born.


 * February 8, 1587: Mary, Queen of Scots is executed.


 * February 9, 1773: William Henry Harrison is born.


 * February 11, 1847: Thomas Edison is born.


 * February 12, 1554: Lady Jane Grey is executed.
 * February 12, 1809: Abraham Lincoln is born.


 * February 13, 1542: Catherine Howard, Henry VIII's fifth wife, is executed in the Tower of London.


 * February 15, 1820: Susan B. Anthony is born.


 * February 18, 1516: Mary I is born.


 * February 20, 1547: Coronation of Edward VI.


 * February 22, 1511: Prince Henry, son of Henry VIII and Katherine of Aragon, dies, less than two months after his birth.
 * February 22, 1810: Frédéric Chopin is born (date given on baptismal certificate; see March 1).
 * February 22, 1732: George Washington is born.


 * February 23, 1685: George Frideric Handel is born.
 * February 23, 1787: Emma Willard is born.
 * February 23, 1848: John Quincy Adams dies.


 * February 24, 1836: Winslow Homer is born.


 * February 25, 1841: Pierre-Auguste Renoir is born.


 * February 26, 1802: Victor Hugo is born.


 * February 27, 1936: Ivan Pavlov dies.


 * February 28, 1916: Henry James dies.

March

 * March 1, 1810: Frédéric Chopin is born (accepted date).


 * March 2, 1895: Berthe Morisot dies.


 * March 3, 1847: Alexander Graham Bell is born.


 * March 4 was Inauguration Day for many, many years. Among those sworn in as President of the United States on this date: 1797: John Adams (2nd President); 1801: Thomas Jefferson (3rd); 1809: James Madison (4th); 1817: James Monroe (5th); 1825: John Quincy Adams, (6th); 1829: Andrew Jackson (7th); 1837: Martin Van Buren (8th); 1841: William Henry Harrison (9th); 1845: James K. Polk (11th);
 * 1861: Abraham Lincoln (16th); 1869: Ulysses S. Grant (18th);
 * 1885: Grover Cleveland (22nd); 1889: Benjamin Harrison (23rd); 1893: Grover Cleveland again, (24th); 1897: William McKinley (25th); 1909: William Howard Taft (27th); 1913: Woodrow Wilson (28th); 1921: Warren G. Harding (29th); 1929: Herbert Hoover (31st); 1934: Franklin D. Roosevelt (32nd);
 * March 4-5, 1776: The Continental Army fortifies Dorchester Heights in Boston under cover of darkness; the British army evacuate Boston a little more than a week later.


 * March 6, 1986: Georgia O'Keeffe dies.


 * March 8, 1869: Hector Berlioz dies.
 * March 8, 1930: William Howard Taft dies.


 * March 9, 1947: Carrie Chapman Catt dies.


 * March 13, 1781: William Herschel finds the planet Uranus; he thought initially that he had found a comet.
 * March 13, 1901: Benjamin Harrison dies.
 * March 13, 1906: Susan B. Anthony dies.


 * March 15, 1767: Andrew Jackson is born.


 * March 16, 1751: James Madison is born.


 * March 17, 1776: The British army and a number of local Tories leave Boston for Nova Scotia.


 * March 18, 1782: John C. Calhoun is born.
 * March 18, 1837: Grover Cleveland is born.


 * March 21, 1152: The marriage of Eleanor of Aquitaine and Louis VII of France is dissolved.
 * March 21, 1556: Thomas Cranmer dies.
 * March 21, 1685 (O.S.): Johann Sebastian Bach is born.


 * March 24, 1603: Elizabeth I dies.


 * March 25, 1881: Béla Bartók is born.
 * March 25, 1911: 146 garment workers die in the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire.
 * March 25, 1918: Claude Debussy dies.


 * March 26, 1827: Ludwig van Beethoven dies.
 * March 26, 1925: Pierre Boulez is born.


 * March 27, 1625: James VI of Scotland (I of England) dies.


 * March 28, 1941: Virginia Woolf dies.


 * March 30, 1746: Francisco Goya is born.
 * March 30, 1879: Thomas Couture dies.


 * March 31, 1204: Eleanor of Aquitaine dies.
 * March 31, 1519: Henri II of France, first husband of Mary, Queen of Scots, is born.
 * March 31 or April 1, 1732: Joseph Haydn is born.
 * March 31, 1850: John C. Calhoun dies.
 * March 31, 1855: Charlotte Brontë dies.

April

 * April 2, 1502: Arthur, Prince of Wales dies.


 * April 4, 1841: William Henry Harrison dies.
 * April 4, 1917: Jeannette Rankin of Montana takes her seat in Congress.


 * April 6, 1826: Gustave Moreau is born.
 * April 6, 1971: Igor Stravinsky dies.


 * April 8, 1973: Pablo Picasso dies.


 * April 9, 1137: Duke William X of Aquitaine dies while on pilgrimage; his daughter Eleanor is now duchess.
 * April 9, 1626: Francis Bacon dies.


 * April 11, 1970: Apollo 13 is launched.


 * April 12, 1777: Henry Clay is born.
 * April 12, 1912: Clara Barton dies.
 * April 12, 1981: The first space shuttle is launched.


 * April 13, 1743: Thomas Jefferson is born.
 * April 13, 1906: Samuel Beckett is born.
 * April 13, 1941: Annie Jump Cannon dies.


 * April 14, 1759: George Frideric Handel dies.
 * April 14, 1865: Abraham Lincoln is shot by John Wilkes Booth. He dies the next day.
 * April 14, 1970: An oxygen tank on Apollo 13 explodes, disabling the vehicle and endangering the crew.
 * April 14, 1986: Simone de Beauvoir dies.


 * April 15, 1843: Henry James is born.
 * April 15, 1870: Emma Willard dies.


 * April 16, 1828: Francisco Goya dies.


 * April 17, 1790: Benjamin Franklin dies.


 * April 18, 1898: Gustave Moreau dies.
 * April 18, 1906: The 1906 San Francisco earthquake: a powerful earthquake devistates San Francisco.


 * April 19, 1906: Pierre Curie dies.


 * April 21, 1816: Charlotte Brontë is born.


 * April 22, 1509: Henry VII dies; Henry VIII is King of England.


 * April 24, 1558: Mary, Queen of Scots marries François, Dauphin of France.


 * April 26, 1822: Frederick Law Olmsted is born.
 * April 26, 1865: John Wilkes Booth dies.


 * April 27, 1822: Ulysses S. Grant is born.


 * April 28, 1758: James Monroe is born.


 * April 29, 1429: Joan of Arc arrives at Orléans.


 * April 30, 1798: George Washington is sworn in as the first President of the United States.
 * April 30, 1883: Édouard Manet dies.

May



 * May 4, 1929: Audrey Hepburn is born.


 * May 7, 1840: Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky is born.


 * May 8, 1429: The English lift their seige of Orléans ; Joan of Arc, who had led the relief effort, is assured permanent fame.


 * May 10, 1838: John Wilkes Booth is born.


 * May 11, 1824: Jean-Léon Gérôme is born.


 * May 12, 1907: Katharine Hepburn is born.


 * May 15, 1859: Pierre Curie is born.
 * May 15, 1886: Emily Dickinson dies.


 * May 16, 1920: Joan of Arc is canonized by Pope Benedict XV.


 * May 17, 1829: John Jay dies.


 * May 18, 1152: Eleanor of Aquitaine marries King Henry II of England.
 * May 18, 1973: Jeannette Rankin dies.


 * May 19, 1536: Anne Boleyn, second wife of Henry VIII and mother of Elizabeth I, is executed in the Tower of London.


 * May 20, 1536: Henry VIII is betrothed to Jane Seymour, his third wife.


 * May 21, 1935: Jane Addams dies.


 * May 22, 1844: Mary Cassatt is born.
 * May 22, 1885: Victor Hugo dies.


 * May 23, 1430: Joan of Arc is captured outside of Compiègne, France.


 * May 27, 1431: Joan of Arc withdraws her abjuration of May 24; on May 28, she is condemned as a heretic.
 * May 27, 1819: Julia Ward Howe is born.
 * May 27, 1840: Niccolò Paganini dies.


 * May 28, 1849: Anne Brontë dies.


 * May 29, 1736: Patrick Henry is born.


 * May 30, 1431: Joan of Arc is executed in Rouen.
 * May 30, 1536: Henry VIII and Jane Seymour marry.


 * May 31, 1809: Joseph Haydn dies.
 * May 31, 1910: Elizabeth Blackwell dies.

June

 * June 4, 1536: Jane Seymour, third wife of Henry VIII, is proclaimed queen.


 * June 5, 1826: Carl Maria von Weber dies.


 * June 6, 1756: Artist John Trumbull is born.
 * June 6, 1799: Patrick Henry dies.


 * June 8, 1845: Andrew Jackson dies.


 * June 9, 1870: Charles Dickens dies.


 * June 10, 1819: Gustave Courbet is born.


 * June 11, 1509: Henry VIII marries his first wife, Catherine of Aragon.
 * June 11, 1864: Richard Strauss is born.
 * June 11, 1880: Jeannette Rankin is born.


 * June 14, 1926: Mary Cassatt dies.


 * June 15, 1849: James K. Polk dies.


 * June 16, 1514: John Cheke is born.


 * June 17, 1882: Igor Stravinsky is born.


 * June 19, 1566: James VI of Scotland (I of England) is born.


 * June 24, 1509: Henry VIII and his first wife, Catherine of Aragon, are crowned King and Queen of England.
 * June 24, 1908: Grover Cleveland dies.


 * June 25, 1916: Thomas Eakins dies.


 * June 28, 1491: Henry VIII is born.
 * June 28, 1836: James Madison dies.
 * June 28, 1978: Pluto's moon Charon is discovered by James W. Christy.


 * June 29, 1852: Henry Clay dies.
 * June 29, 2003: Katharine Hepburn dies.


 * June 30, 1789: Horace Vernet is born.

July

 * July 2, 1489: Thomas Cranmer is born.


 * July 4, 1826: John Adams dies.
 * July 4, 1826: Thomas Jefferson dies.
 * July 4, 1831: James Monroe dies.
 * July 4, 1868: Henrietta Swan Leavitt is born.
 * July 4, 1872: Calvin Coolidge is born.
 * July 4, 1934: Marie Curie dies.


 * July 6, 1553: Edward VI dies; Mary I should now rule, but Edward's advisors divert the throne to Lady Jane Grey.


 * July 7, 1456: Twenty-five years after her execution, the verdict of Joan of Arc's condemnation trial is overturned.


 * July 9, 1540: Henry VIII's marriage to his fourth wife, Anne of Cleves, is dissolved.
 * July 9, 1977: Alice Paul dies.


 * July 10, 1553: Lady Jane Grey is proclaimed Queen. The title sticks for for a little over a week; she is called the "Nine Days' Queen".
 * July 10, 1559: Henri II of France dies. His son François succeds him, and Mary, Queen of Scots becomes Queen Consort of France.
 * July 10, 1830: Camille Pissarro is born.


 * July 11, 1767: John Quincy Adams is born.
 * July 11, 1859: A Tale of Two Cities, by Charles Dickens, is published.
 * July 11, 1937: George Gershwin dies.
 * July 11, 1960: Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird is published.


 * July 12, 1543: Henry VIII marries Catherine Parr, his sixth wife.
 * July 12, 1804: Alexander Hamilton dies.


 * July 14, 1939: Alfons Mucha dies.


 * July 16, 1557: Anne of Cleves, Henry VIII's fourth wife, dies.
 * July 16, 1850: A daguerrotype of Vega is made at the Harvard Observatory; it is the first time a star has been photographed.
 * July 16, 1969: Apollo 11 is launched.


 * July 17, 1797: Hippolyte Delaroche is born.


 * July 18, 1817: Jane Austen dies.


 * July 19, 1543: Mary Boleyn, sister of Anne, dies.
 * July 19, 1553: Mary I takes over the throne; Lady Jane Grey, among others, will be executed as a result of attempting to prevent Mary's accession.
 * July 19, 1834: Edgar Degas is born.


 * July 20, 1969: Apollo 11 lands on the Sea of Tranquility; Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin walk on the moon.


 * July 23, 1885: Ulysses S. Grant dies.


 * July 24, 1567: Mary, Queen of Scots is forced to abdicate her throne in favor of her son James.
 * July 24, 1860: Alfons Mucha is born.
 * July 24, 1862: Martin Van Buren dies.
 * July 24, 1969: Apollo 11 splashes down in the Pacific Ocean.


 * July 25, 1137: Eleanor of Aquitaine marries King Louis VII of France.
 * July 25, 1844: Thomas Eakins is born.


 * July 28, 1540: Thomas Cromwell dies.
 * July 28, 1750 (O.S.): Johann Sebastian Bach dies.
 * July 28, 1879: Lucy Burns is born.


 * July 30, 1818: Emily Brontë is born.


 * July 31, 1886: Franz Liszt dies.

August

 * August 2, 1922: Alexander Graham Bell dies.
 * August 2, 1923: Warren G. Harding dies; Calvin Coolidge is sworn in as the 30th President of the United States.


 * August 4, 1598: William Cecil dies.
 * August 4, 1853: John Henry Twachtman is born.


 * August 6, 1660: Diego Velázquez dies.


 * August 8, 1902: John Henry Twachtman dies.


 * August 10, 1874: Herbert Hoover is born.


 * August 17, 1983: Ira Gershwin dies.


 * August 19, 1905: William-Adolphe Bouguereau dies.


 * August 20, 1643: Anne Hutchinson dies.
 * August 20, 1833: Benjamin Harrison is born.
 * August 20, 1977: Voyager 2 is launched; distressingly, it is followed within the month by Voyager 1.


 * August 22, 1485: The Battle of Bosworth Field: Richard III is defeated, Henry Tudor gains the throne as Henry VII.
 * August 22, 1862: Claude Debussy is born.


 * August 25, 1904: Henri Fantin-Latour dies.


 * August 27, 1935: Childe Hassam dies.


 * August 28, 1903: Frederick Law Olmsted dies.

September



 * September 1, 1532: Anne Boleyn is created Lady Marquess of Pembroke.


 * September 6, 1860: Jane Addams is born.


 * September 7, 1533: Elizabeth I, daughter of Henry VIII and his second wife Anne Boleyn, is born.
 * September 7, 1548: Catherine Parr, sixth and last wife of Henry VIII, dies.


 * September 8, 1949: Richard Strauss dies.


 * September 13, 1520: William Cecil is born.
 * September 13, 1557: John Cheke dies.


 * September 14, 1728: Mercy Otis Warren is born.
 * September 14, 1836: Aaron Burr dies.
 * September 14, 1849: Ivan Pavlov is born.
 * September 14, 1901: William McKinley dies.


 * September 16, 1672: Anne Bradstreet dies.


 * September 17, 1879: Eugène Viollet-le-Duc dies.


 * September 19, 1881: Chester A. Arthur is sworn in as the twenty-first President of the United States.


 * September 22, 1515: Anne of Cleves, later the fourth wife of Henry VIII, is born.


 * September 23, 1846: Neptune is discovered by astronomers at the Berlin Observatory.


 * September 26, 1898: George Gershwin is born.
 * September 26, 1945: Béla Bartók dies.


 * September 27, 1722: Samuel Adams is born.
 * September 27, 1917: Edgar Degas dies.


 * September 29, 1910: Winslow Homer dies.

October

 * October 1, 1924: Jimmy Carter is born.


 * October 2, 1803: Samuel Adams dies.


 * October 5, 1829: Chester A. Arthur is born.


 * October 9, 1835: Camille Saint-Saëns is born.
 * October 9, 1848: Frank Duveneck is born.


 * October 12, 1537: Lady Jane Grey is born.


 * October 15, 1537: Edward VI, son of Henry VIII and his third wife Jane Seymour, is born.


 * October 17, 1849: Frédéric Chopin dies.
 * October 17, 1859: Childe Hassam is born.
 * October 17, 1910: Julia Ward Howe dies.


 * October 18, 1931: Thomas Edison dies.


 * October 19, 1814: Mercy Otis Warren dies.
 * October 19, 1867: Frederick Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux open Prospect Park to the public.


 * October 20, 1964: Herbert Hoover dies.


 * October 22, 1811: Franz Liszt is born.
 * October 22, 1906: Paul Cézanne dies.


 * October 24, 1537: Jane Seymour dies after giving birth to Edward VI, son to Henry VIII.


 * October 25, 1881: Pablo Picasso is born.
 * October 25, 1916: William Merritt Chase dies.


 * October 26, 1902: Elizabeth Cady Stanton dies.


 * October 27, 1782: Niccolò Paganini is born.


 * October 28, 1818: Abigail Adams dies.


 * October 30, 1485: Coronation of Henry VII.
 * October 30, 1735: John Adams is born.

November

 * November 1, 1849: William Merritt Chase is born.


 * November 2, 1795: James K. Polk is born.
 * November 2, 1865: Warren G. Harding is born.


 * November 3, 1901: André Malraux is born.
 * November 3, 1954: Henri Matisse dies.


 * November 4, 1847: Felix Mendelssohn dies.
 * November 4, 1856: Hippolyte Delaroche dies.


 * November 5, 1872: Susan B. Anthony votes in the Presidential election, for which she is later arrested and fined.
 * November 5, 1872: P. M. Henry descovers the asteroid 127 Johanna, believed to be named after Joan of Arc.


 * November 6, 1893: Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky dies.


 * November 7, 1867: Marie Curie is born.
 * November 7, 1872: The Mary Celeste departs New York for Genoa; she is found abandoned at sea less than a month later.
 * November 7, 1916: Jeannette Rankin of Montana becomes the first woman elected to Congress.


 * November 10, 1843: Artist John Trumbull dies.


 * November 11, 1744: Abigail Adams is born.
 * November 11, 1880: Lucretia Mott dies.


 * November 12, 1555: Stephen Gardiner dies.
 * November 12, 1815: Elizabeth Cady Stanton is born.


 * November 13, 1903: Camille Pissarro dies.


 * November 14, 1840: Claude Monet is born.
 * November 14, 1900: Aaron Copland is born.


 * November 15, 1887: Georgia O'Keeffe is born.


 * November 17, 1558: Mary I dies; Elizabeth I ascends the throne.


 * November 18 or 19, 1786: Carl Maria von Weber is born.
 * November 18, 1872: Susan B. Anthony is arrested for having voted in the 1872 election. She is subsequently fined $100, a fine which remains unpaid.
 * November 18, 1886: Chester A. Arthur dies.


 * November 19, 1895: Calvert Vaux dies.


 * November 23, 1976: André Malraux dies.


 * November 30, 1825: William-Adolphe Bouguereau is born.

December

 * December 2, 1867: Charles Dickens gives his first public reading in the United States, in New York City.
 * December 2, 1990: Aaron Copland dies.


 * December 3, 1919: Pierre-Auguste Renoir dies.


 * December 4, 1872: The Mary Celeste is found abandoned at sea by the British brig Dei Gratia; There is little damage to the ship, is no trace of the crew.


 * December 5, 1560: François II of France dies; Mary, Queen of Scots is now the Dowager Queen of France.
 * December 5, 1782: Martin Van Buren is born.
 * December 5, 1784: Phillis Wheatley dies.
 * December 5, 1791: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart dies.
 * December 5, 1926: Claude Monet dies.


 * December 6, 1896: Ira Gershwin is born.


 * December 8, 1542: Mary, Queen of Scots is born.


 * December 10, 1830: Emily Dickinson is born.


 * December 11, 1803: Hector Berlioz is born.
 * December 11, 1863: Annie Jump Cannon is born.


 * December 12, 1745: John Jay is born.
 * December 12, 1921: Henrietta Swan Leavitt dies.


 * December 14, 1542: Six-day-old Mary, Queen of Scots ascends the throne.
 * December 14, 1799: George Washington dies.


 * December 16, 1485: Catherine of Aragon, first wife of Henry VIII, is born.
 * December 16, 1775: Jane Austen is born.
 * December 16, 1921: Camille Saint-Saëns dies.
 * December 16, 1960: The 1960 New York air disaster: a United Airlines Douglas DC-8 and a TWA Lockheed L-1049 crash over Staten Island. The United flight crashes in Park Slope, Brooklyn; the TWA flight, in Staten Island and New York Harbor. None of the 128 passengers and crew survive.


 * December 17, 1770: Ludwig van Beethoven is baptized.
 * December 17, 1843: Charles Dickens's A Christmas Carol is first published.


 * December 19, 1848: Emily Brontë dies.


 * December 20, 1824: Calvert Vaux is born.


 * December 21, 1815: Thomas Couture is born.


 * December 22, 1966: Lucy Burns dies.
 * December 22, 1989: Samuel Beckett dies.


 * December 23, 1568: Roger Ascham dies.


 * December 25, 1634: Lettice Knollys dies.
 * December 25, 1821: Clara Barton is born.


 * December 26, 1898: Marie and Pierre Curie announce the discovery of radium.


 * December 31, 1869: Henri Matisse is born.
 * December 31, 1877: Gustave Courbet dies.