Historical Events For August - 06

1664  Johann Christoph Schmidt, composer on August - 06.  

1665  On August - 06 jean-Baptiste Lully, composer  

1666  Tsjerk H de Vries, fleet guardian, dies in Battle at 43 on this day in history.  

1675  Russian Czar Aleksei bans foreign hairs cut on this day in history.  

1686  On this day in history paul Hainlein, composer, dies at 60  

1697  On this day in history charles VII, Holy Roman emperor (1742-45)  

1718  On this day in history jacob F Muller, [Sjako/Jaco], Germ/Neth crowd leader, beheaded at 28  

1726  Emperor Karel VI & tsarina Catharina the Great sign military treaty on August - 06.  

1727  On August - 06 francois Valentijn, vicar/writer, dies at 61  

1746  On August - 06 christian VI, king of Denmark/Norway, dies  

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1748  Bernhard Haltenberger, composer on August - 06.  

1774  Founder of the Shaker Movement, Mother Ann Lee, arrives in NY on August - 06.  

1775  On this day in history louis-Antoine the Bourbon, French duke of Angouleme/General of France  

1775  Heinrich Nikolaus Gerber, composer, dies at 72 on this day in history.  

1783  On this day in history willem Bachiene, vicar/theologist/geography/astronomer, dies at 70  

1784  On August - 06 karl Kohaut, composer, dies at 57  

1787  On August - 06 constitutional Convention in Phila begans debate  

1799  On this day in history joseph Friebert, composer, dies at 74  

1800  On August - 06 catherine Beecher, educator (championed higher education for women)  

1804  On this day in history justinus van der Brugghen, Dutch lawyer/minister of Justice (1856-58)  

1806  On this day in history holy Roman Empire ends  

1806  Holy Roman empire officially ends on this day in history.  

1806  On August - 06 holy Roman Empire ends; it was neither holy, Roman, nor an empire  

1809  The birth of Alfred Tennyson, English poet on this day in history.  

1809  On this day in history alfred Lord Tennyson, poet laureate of England  

1811  On August - 06 judah Philip Benjamin, Secy War/Secy State (Confederacy) [or Aug 11]  

1815  US flotilla ends piracy by Algiers, Tunis &Tripoli on this day in history.  

1815  US flotilla ends piracy by Algiers, Tunis & Tripoli on August - 06.  

1816  On this day in history karl Frieberth, composer, dies at 80  

1819  On August - 06 norwich University is founded in Vermont as the first private military school in the United States.  

1819  Samuel Powhatan Carter, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers) on this day in history.  

1820  Antonin Vranicky, composer, dies at 59 on this day in history.  

1821  1st edition of "Courrier of Pays-Bas" newspaper published in Brussels on this day in history.  

1821  On this day in history antonio Bartolomeo Bruni, composer, dies at 64  

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1180  On August - 06 birth of emperor Go-Toba of Japan (d. 1239)  

1504  Matthew "Nosey" Parker, archbishop of Canterbury was born on this day in history.  

1609  On this day in history birth of richard Bennett, British Colonial Governor of Virginia (d. 1675)  

1619  Barbara Strozzi, composer was born on August - 06.  

1638  Nicolas de Malebranche, French philosopher was born on this day in history.  

1644  Francoise L de la Baume Le Blanc, French mistress of Louis XIV was born on this day in history.  

1651  On August - 06 birth of francois Fenelon, France, writer (Playing for Time)  

1651  Johann Michael Zacher, composer was born on August - 06.  

0258  On August - 06 death of sixtus II, bishop of Rome (257-58), beheaded  

0523  On this day in history hormisdas, Pope (514-23), dies  

0966  On this day in history death of berengarius II, markgraaf of Ivrea/king of Italy (950-963)  

1162  Death of Ramon Berenguer IV, Count of Barcelona on this day in history.  

1195  On this day in history henry de Leeuw, duke of Saxon/Bayern, dies  

1221  On this day in history death of dominicus, Italian religious order founder (Dominicans)  

1272  On this day in history stefanus V, prince of Transylvania/king of Hungary (1270-72), dies  

1414  Death of King Ladislas of Naples (b. 1377) on this day in history.