January 29

Events

• In the State’s archives in Schaffhausen one can find that from January 29, 1583 applications for guilds and businesses, for fireworkers, tin and metal forgers/smiths, clock- and spring (coil) makers, who were also part of the city council. They advised in even then in Schaffhausen what the Clockmaker trade should involve and how it should be operated.
• On January 29, 1920 many more Glashütter fine machinery firms joined together with the Union of Glashuetter Measurement Machinery Firms, Tachometer and Fine Machinery Works.

Births

• Jean Antoine Thuillier was born on 29th January, 1728 in Geneva.
• Georg Matthias Burger was born on 29th January, 1750 in Dittenheim.
• Alexandre Ducommun was born on 29th January, 1841 in Les Ponts-de-Martel.
• Antoine Mauranne was born on 29th January, 1861 in Paris IIIe, Île-de-France.
• Marie-Athanais Troudet was born on 29th January, 1865 in Saint-Nicolas d'Aliermont.
• Albert-Hyppolite Boé was born on 29th January, 1888 in Saint-Nicolas d'Aliermont.

Deaths

• Michel Cailly died on 29th January, 1820 in Saint-Nicolas d'Aliermont.
• Jean-Marie-André Sauteur died on 29th January, 1825 in Saint-Nicolas d'Aliermont.
• Johann Georg Schäffer died on 29th January, 1843 in Kitzingen.
• William Cranch Bond died on 29th January, 1859 in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
• Albert-Isidore Laneuville died on 29th January, 1884 in Saint-Nicolas d'Aliermont.
• Wilhelm Schöchlin died on 29th January, 1893.
• Charles-Oscar Huguenin died on 29th January, 1936 in La Chaux de Fonds.