1800s

The century of the 1800s.

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Selected Magic Events By Year

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• 1800 - Library of Congress, is established and goes on to contain all magic books formally copyrighted in the US

• 1801 - Ludwig Leopold Doebler, who toured England, Austria, Germany, Russia and France with his magic, is born,

• 1802 - Rational Recreations Vol 4, by Dr. W. Hooper, is published

• 1805 - Jean Eugène Robert-Houdin, often credited as the 'father of modern magic', is born

• 1806 - Johann Nepomuk Hofzinser, who specialized in card magic and manipulations, is born

• 1808 - The New Art of Hocus Pocus Revived is published

• 1809 - The magician Torrini, some sources believe, performs the first version of Sawing a woman in half in front of Pope Pius VII. This, however, is greatly debated.

• 1810 - P. T. Barnum, an American showman famous for founding the circuses that would later become the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus, in born

• 1811 - Richard Potter performs an An Evening's Brush to Sweep Away Care, or a Medley to Please, at the Columbian Museum in Boston

• 1812 - Bartolomeo Bosco, is taken prisoner and finds his extraordinary talent for performing

• 1813 - Alfred Sylvester, the Fakir of Oolu, is born

• 1814 - The first recorded performence of pulling a white rabbit from a top hat is performed by Louis Comte

• 1815 - St. John Bosco, who taught spiritual values through magic, making him an early, if not the first, performer of modern Gospel Magic, is born

• 1816 - Compars Herrmann, who pursued a career as a magician and served as a role model and inspiration for Alexander Herrmann, is born

• 1817 - Wiljalba Frikell, a German magician who developed an act without the usual equipment on stage, is born