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

• Georg Matthias Burger was born on 29th January, 1750 in Dittenheim.

Deaths

• Johann Georg Schäffer overleed died on 29th January, 1843 in Kitzingen.
• William Cranch Bond died on 29th January, 1859 in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
• Wilhelm Schöchlin died on 29th January, 1893.