On This Day In History On This Day In History: Ceres Discovered By Giuseppe Piazzi – On Jan 1, 1801 MessageToEagle.com | January 1, 2017 MessageToEagle.com – On January 1, 1801, Giuseppe Piazzi (1746-1846), a Catholic priest at the Academy of Palermo, Sicily discovered a faint, distant object, correctly believing it to lie Read More