January 31 to February 2

January 31
1606  Guy Fawkes, convicted for his part in the Gunpowder Plot against the English Parliament and King James I, was executed.
1872  Zane Grey, American Western writer, was born.
1907  Timothy Eaton, Canadian department store founder, died.
1990  McDonald's Corp. opened its first fast-food restaurant in Moscow.

February 1
1709  Alexander Selkirk is rescued after being shipwrecked on a desert island, inspiring the book Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe.
1796  The capital of Upper Canada was moved from Newark to York.
1882  Louis Stephen St. Laurent, 12th Prime Minister of Canada, was born
1893  Inventor Thomas A. Edison completed work on the world's first motion picture studio in West Orange, N.J.
1920  The Royal Canadian Mounted Police was established.
1968  Canada's three military services, the Royal Canadian Navy, the Canadian Army and the Royal Canadian Air Force, were unified into the Canadian Forces.
2003  Space Shuttle Columbia, disintegrates during reentry into the Earth's atmosphere, killing all seven astronauts aboard.

February 2
1653  New Amsterdam, now New York City, was incorporated.
1882  James Joyce, Irish novelist, was born near Dublin.
2007  The world's leading climate scientists said global warming, is "very likely" caused by humans and will be unstoppable for centuries.

Timeline January 29 & 30

January 29
1737  Thomas Paine, English/American political pamphleteer, was born.
1820  King George III of the United Kingdom died at Windsor Castle.
1845  Edgar Allan Poe's poem "The Raven" was first published, in the New York Evening Mirror.
1856  Queen Victoria instituted the Victoria Cross.
1963  Robert Frost, American poet, died in Boston at age 88.

January 30
1649  England's King Charles I was beheaded.
1882  Franklin Delano Roosevelt, the 32nd president of the United States, was born in Hyde Park, N.Y. [My 7th cousin twice removed.]
1933  Adolf Hitler became chancellor of Germany.
1948  Orville Wright, American inventor & aviation pioneer, died.

A Day at the City of Ottawa Archives: Saturday, February 2nd

Ottawa Branch of the Ontario Genealogical Society is hosting this event on Saturday, February 2 1:30-3:30 at the City of Ottawa Archives, 100 Tallwood Drive, Ottawa.

There will be specialists on hand from the Ottawa Branch, the Sir Guy Carleton Branch UELAC, the British Isles Family History Society and the corporate Archives of the City of Ottawa to:

* To explain generally how archives work
* To show you all the genealogical materials available in the libraries housed at the Archives
* To give you tips on researching military ancestors
* To outline the best strategies for using Ancestry.com
* To provide general information on records in the United Kingdom and Ireland
* To help you search for your Loyalist ancestors
* To illustrate how the Guild of One Name Studies can help you
* To inform you about local resources, particularly in former Goulbourn Township
* To guide you in choosing genealogy software
* To assist you with your genealogical adventure!

This is your chance to have some one-on-one time with a specialist (limited to one question based on availability), or just listen to specialists speak about their area of expertise in response to others’ questions.

Although it is only really an afternoon session you can make a day of it by attending the DNA interest group which will convene at 9:30 a.m. in the building.

Timeline January 27 & 28

January 27
1595  Sir Francis Drake, English explorer, died.
1756  Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, composer, was born in Salzburg, Austria.
1776  American Revolutionary War: Henry Knox's "noble train of artillery" arrives in Cambridge,  Massachusetts.
1832  Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, English logician, mathematician, photographer and novelist, who
wrote under the pen name Lewis Carroll (Alice's Adventures in Wonderland), was born in Cheshire,  England.
1880  Thomas Edison received a patent for his electric incandescent lamp.
1888  The National Geographic Society is founded in Washington, D.C..
1945  Soviet troops liberated the Nazi concentration camps Auschwitz and Birkenau in Poland.
1901  Giuseppe Verdi, Italian opera composer, died.
1910  Thomas Crapper, English inventor, died.
1973  The Vietnam peace accords were signed in Paris.

January 28
1225  Saint Thomas Aquinas, was born.
1457  King Henry VII of England, was born.
1547  England's King Henry VIII died.
1613  Thomas Bodley, English diplomat and founder of the Bodleian library, died
1822  Alexander Mackenzie, 2nd Prime Minister of Canada, was born.
1918  John McCrae, Canadian poet, died.
1965  The current design of the Flag of Canada was chosen by an act of Parliament.
1986  Space shuttle Challenger exploded 73 seconds after liftoff from Cape Canaveral, killing all seven crew members.

Timeline Janaury 24 to 26

January 24
    76  Hadrian, Roman Emperor, was born.
1848  James W. Marshall discovered a gold nugget at Sutter's Mill in northern California, sparking the gold rush of '49.
1908  The first Boy Scout troop was organized in England by Robert Baden-Powell.
1965  Sir Winston Churchill, soldier, politician, historian, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom and Nobel laureate died.
1984  The first Apple Macintosh went on sale.

January 25
1627  Robert Boyle, Anglo-Irish chemist, was born.
1759  Robert Burns, Scottish national poet, was born in Alloway.
1791  The British Parliament passes the Constitutional Act of 1791 and splits the old Province of Quebec into Upper and Lower Canada.
1858  The Wedding March by Felix Mendelssohn became a popular wedding recessional after it was played on this day at the marriage of Queen Victoria's daughter, Victoria, and Friedrich of Prussia.
1915  The inventor of the telephone, Alexander Graham Bell, inaugurated U.S. transcontinental telephone service.
1919  The League of Nations was founded.
1947  Al Capone, American crime figure, died at age 48.

January 26
1788  The first European settlers in Australia landed in present-day Sydney.
1911  Glenn H. Curtiss, aviation pioneer, flew the first successful seaplane.
1924  Saint Petersburg, Russia, was renamed Leningrad.

Timeline January 22 & 23

January 22
1561  Sir Francis Bacon, English philosopher, was born.
1901  Queen Victoria died at age 81 after 63 years on the British throne.
1901  Edward VII was proclaimed King after the death of his mother, Queen Victoria.

January 23
1579  The Union of Utrecht formed a Protestant republic in the Netherlands.
1737  John Hancock, American Revolutionary statesman, was born.
1920  Walter Frederick Morrison, American, inventor of the Frisbee , was born.

Timeline January 20 & 21

January 20
1775  André-Marie Ampère, French physicist, was born.
1841  Hong Kong was ceded to Great Britain.
1885  L.A. Thompson patented the roller coaster.
1896  Comedian George Burns was born Nathan Birnbaum in New York City.
1936  Britain's King George V died.
2009  Barack Obama was inaugurated as the first black President of the United States.

January 21
1610  Elizabeth Fones, English-born colonial American pioneer, was born. (d. 1673) [My 9th Great-Grandmother. Read about her on Wikipedia.]
1721  James Murray, British military officer, governor of Quebec, was born.
1738  Ethan Allen, American soldier/frontiersman, was born.
1793  France's King Louis XVI, was executed on the guillotine.
1891  Calixa Lavallée, Canadian composer, died.
1924  Russian revolutionary Vladimir Ilyich Lenin died at age 54.
1940  Jack Nicklaus, American golf legend, was born.
1941  Placido Domingo, Opera singer, was born.
1948  The Flag of Quebec was adopted and flown for the first time over the National Assembly of Quebec.
1950  Author George Orwell died in London.