Historical Events In August - 06

1664  Johann Christoph Schmidt, composer on August - 06.  

1665  On this day in history jean-Baptiste Lully, composer  

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

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

1686  On August - 06 paul Hainlein, composer, dies at 60  

1697  Charles VII, Holy Roman emperor (1742-45) on this day in history.  

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

1726  On August - 06 emperor Karel VI & tsarina Catharina the Great sign military treaty  

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

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

1748  On August - 06 bernhard Haltenberger, composer  

1774  On August - 06 founder of the Shaker Movement, Mother Ann Lee, arrives in NY  

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

1775  Heinrich Nikolaus Gerber, composer, dies at 72 on August - 06.  

1783  Willem Bachiene, vicar/theologist/geography/astronomer, dies at 70 on August - 06.  

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

1787  On August - 06 constitutional Convention in Phila begans debate  

1799  On August - 06 joseph Friebert, composer, dies at 74  

1800  Catherine Beecher, educator (championed higher education for women) on August - 06.  

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

1806  On August - 06 holy Roman Empire ends  

1806  Holy Roman empire officially ends on August - 06.  

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

1809  On August - 06 the birth of Alfred Tennyson, English poet  

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

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  On this day in history uS flotilla ends piracy by Algiers, Tunis & Tripoli  

1816  On August - 06 karl Frieberth, composer, dies at 80  

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

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

1820  On August - 06 antonin Vranicky, composer, dies at 59  

1821  On August - 06 1st edition of "Courrier of Pays-Bas" newspaper published in Brussels  

1821  Antonio Bartolomeo Bruni, composer, dies at 64 on this day in history.  

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

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

1609  On August - 06 birth of richard Bennett, British Colonial Governor of Virginia (d. 1675)  

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

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

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

1651  On this day in history birth of francois Fenelon, France, writer (Playing for Time)  

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

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  On this day in history death of ramon Berenguer IV, Count of Barcelona  

1195  On August - 06 henry de Leeuw, duke of Saxon/Bayern, dies  

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

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

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