Historical Events Happened In August - 06

1661  Holland sells Brazil to Portugal for 8 million guilders on this day in history.  Share it »

1661  On this day in history jacqueline-M-A the Sainte Madeleine Arnauld, French abbess, dies  Share it »

1664  Johann Christoph Schmidt, composer on this day in history.  Share it »

1665  Jean-Baptiste Lully, composer on this day in history.  Share it »

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

1675  On this day in history russian Czar Aleksei bans foreign hairs cut  Share it »

1686  Paul Hainlein, composer, dies at 60 on this day in history.  Share it »

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

1718  Jacob F Muller, [Sjako/Jaco], Germ/Neth crowd leader, beheaded at 28 on this day in history.  Share it »

1726  On this day in history emperor Karel VI & tsarina Catharina the Great sign military treaty  Share it »

1727  On this day in history francois Valentijn, vicar/writer, dies at 61  Share it »

1746  On this day in history christian VI, king of Denmark/Norway, dies  Share it »

1748  Bernhard Haltenberger, composer on this day in history.  Share it »

1774  Founder of the Shaker Movement, Mother Ann Lee, arrives in NY on this day in history.  Share it »

1775  Louis-Antoine the Bourbon, French duke of Angouleme/General of France on this day in history.  Share it »

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

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

1784  On this day in history karl Kohaut, composer, dies at 57  Share it »

1787  Constitutional Convention in Phila begans debate on this day in history.  Share it »

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

1800  On this day in history catherine Beecher, educator (championed higher education for women)  Share it »

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

1806  On this day in history holy Roman Empire ends  Share it »

1806  On this day in history holy Roman empire officially ends  Share it »

1806  Holy Roman Empire ends; it was neither holy, Roman, nor an empire on this day in history.  Share it »

1809  On this day in history the birth of Alfred Tennyson, English poet  Share it »

1809  Alfred Lord Tennyson, poet laureate of England on this day in history.  Share it »

1811  Judah Philip Benjamin, Secy War/Secy State (Confederacy) [or Aug 11] on this day in history.  Share it »

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

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

1816  Karl Frieberth, composer, dies at 80 on this day in history.  Share it »

1819  Norwich University is founded in Vermont as the first private military school in the United States on this day in history.  Share it »

1819  On this day in history samuel Powhatan Carter, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers)  Share it »

1820  On this day in history antonin Vranicky, composer, dies at 59  Share it »

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1180  Emperor Go-Toba of Japan (d. 1239) was born on this day in history.  Share it »

1504  On this day in history birth of matthew "Nosey" Parker, archbishop of Canterbury  Share it »

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

1619  On this day in history birth of barbara Strozzi, composer  Share it »

1638  On this day in history birth of nicolas de Malebranche, French philosopher  Share it »

1644  On this day in history birth of francoise L de la Baume Le Blanc, French mistress of Louis XIV  Share it »

1651  Francois Fenelon, France, writer (Playing for Time) was born on this day in history.  Share it »

1651  On this day in history birth of johann Michael Zacher, composer  Share it »

0258  Death of Sixtus II, bishop of Rome (257-58), beheaded on this day in history.  Share it »

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

0966  Death of Berengarius II, markgraaf of Ivrea/king of Italy (950-963) on this day in history.  Share it »

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

1195  Henry de Leeuw, duke of Saxon/Bayern, dies on this day in history.  Share it »

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

1272  Stefanus V, prince of Transylvania/king of Hungary (1270-72), dies on this day in history.  Share it »

1414  On this day in history death of king Ladislas of Naples (b. 1377)  Share it »