Bach premieres cantata Alles nur nach Gottes Willen (1726), and Dante Alighieri is condemned and banished from Florence (1302). Born on this day: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Lewis Carroll and William II. Died: Giuseppe Verdi, Suharto and J.D. Salinger.
29 events, 65 births and 69 deaths on this date.
Bach directed the first performance of this church cantata in Leipzig, one of the works he wrote for the city's Lutheran churches. It closed his third year of such cantatas, a yearly cycle he had committed himself to composing.
Elias Gottlob Haussmann · Public domainThe Florentine poet was sentenced to death in his absence and barred from returning to the city he loved. He never went back, and spent his remaining years writing the Divine Comedy.
Sandro Botticelli · Public domain
Apple revealed the iPad, a touchscreen tablet that became one of its core product lines alongside the iPhone and Mac. It bet that people wanted a device between a phone and a laptop, and the tablet category grew from there.
A Russian voyage under Bellingshausen and Lazarev sailed close to the icy coast of an unknown southern landmass, the first confirmed sighting of Antarctica. The expedition's charts and observations gave later explorers their first real picture of the frozen continent.
Trajan, who had been adopted by Nerva, became Roman emperor, and the empire grew to its greatest size under him. The change left the Roman world under a new ruler, whose reign saw its borders at their widest.
Element 117 gets its name from Tennessee, where key research into its discovery took place. It is a synthetic element that exists only for fleeting moments inside laboratories.
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Salzburg-born, he was performing for European royalty as a small child and later wrote more than 800 works. His output spans symphonies, operas and concertos, including the opera Idomeneo and the serenade Eine kleine Nachtmusik.
Barbara Krafft · Public domain
Charles Dodgson, who wrote under the name Lewis Carroll, was an Oxford mathematician whose nonsense stories, especially Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, became some of the best-loved books in English. He also took many photographs, including celebrated portraits of Victorian children.
Lewis Carroll · Public domain
William II was the last German Emperor, ruling from 1888 until he gave up the throne in 1918 and ending the German Empire. He was also a keen amateur painter and art collector, and was the eldest grandson of Queen Victoria.
Studio of Thomas Heinrich Voigt · Public domain
Verdi was the Italian composer who came to dominate opera after Rossini, Bellini and Donizetti. His works, from Nabucco to Aida, Otello and Falstaff, remain among the most performed operas in the world.
Disegnatore: A. Cairoli - Incisore: Ernesto Mancastroppa · Public domain
Suharto ruled Indonesia for 31 years as its second president, leading a military-dominated New Order government that was marked by harsh repression and the 1975 invasion of East Timor. He died in Jakarta, having been forced from power in 1998 after mass protests.
State Secretariat of the Republic of Indonesia · Public domain
Salinger was the American novelist behind The Catcher in the Rye, a 1951 book about a restless teenager that became a touchstone for generations of young readers. After its success he withdrew from public life, publishing only sparingly until his death.
Lotte Jacobi · Public domain
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