Page 2: Historical Events In August - 07

1782  On this day in history george Washington creates Order of Purple Heart   

1783  On August - 07 john Heathcoat, inventor (lace-making machinery)   

1786  Friedrich Schwindl, composer, dies at 49 on August - 07.   

1789  US War Department established on this day in history.   

1789  Congress creates Dept of War & Lighthouse Service on August - 07.   

1798  On August - 07 johann Gottlieb Sollner, composer, dies at 65   

1799  John Bacon, English sculptor, dies at 58 on this day in history.   

1802  On August - 07 napoleon orders re-instatement of slavery on St Domingue (Haiti)   

1814  On this day in history pope Pius VII reinstates Jesuits   

1816  On August - 07 dionysius G van der Keessel, Dut lawyer (Theses selectae), dies at 77   

1818  On this day in history henry Charles Litolff, French composer/pianist   

1819  Battle of Boyac ; Bol­var defeats Spanish in Colombia on August - 07.   

1819  On August - 07 battle of Boyacá; Bolívar defeats Spanish in Colombia   

1820  On August - 07 first potatoes planted in Hawaii   

1820  1st potatoes planted in Hawaii on this day in history.   

1823  On August - 07 faustina Hasse Hodges, composer   

1826  On this day in history carl AE Ahlqvist, [A Oksanen], Finnish poet (Suomalainen Runousoppi)   

1829  On this day in history thomas Ewing Jr, Major General, Bvt (Union volunteers), died in 1896   

1833  Powell Clayton, Brig General (Union volunteers)/(Gov-R-Ark) on August - 07.   

1836  Evander McIvor Law, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1920 on August - 07.   

1846  Johann Christian Heinrich Rinck, composer, dies at 76 on this day in history.   

1858  On August - 07 ottawa chosen as the capital of Canada by British Queen Victoria   

1867  Battle of Moorefield, WV on this day in history.   

1867  On this day in history emil Nolde, [Hansen], German painter/graphic artist   

1867  Ira F Aldridge, US actor (Othello/Shylock), dies in Lodes Poland at 63 on this day in history.   

1868  On August - 07 granville Bantock, English composer/conductor (Hebridean Symphony)   

1870  On this day in history 19 kittens, born to Tarawood Antigone (4 still born)   

1872  On August - 07 andries C D de Graeff, governor-general of Neth Indies (1926-31)   

1876  On this day in history the birth of Mata Hari, Dutch born dancer and spy   

1876  Mata Hari, [Margaretha G Zelle], dancer/courtesan/spy (WW I) on August - 07.   

1879  On August - 07 the opening of the Poor Man's Palace in Manchester.   

1879  On this day in history j J Kotze, South African cricket fast bowler (1902-07)   

1880  Ernst Laqueur, chemist/pharmacology/psychology (sexual hormones) on this day in history.   

1882  Hatfields of south WV & McCoys of east Ky feud, 100 wounded. Many dead on August - 07.   

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1282  Princess Elizabeth of Rhuddlan (d. 1316) was born on this day in history.   

1533  On this day in history birth of alonso de Ercilla y Zúñiga, Basque soldier and poet (d. 1595)   

1560  On this day in history birth of elizabeth Báthory, Hungarian countess and serial killer (d. 1614)   

1574  On August - 07 birth of robert Dudley, styled Earl of Warwick, English writer (d. 1649)   

1598  Georg Stiernhielm, "father of Swedish poetry" (Hercules) was born on this day in history.   

1726  James Bowdoin, American Revolutionary leader and politician (d. 1790) was born on August - 07.   

1742  Nathanael Greene, American Revoluntionary War General was born on August - 07.   

1746  On August - 07 birth of daniel W Wyttenbach, Dutch classical/historian   

0461  On this day in history death of majorian, Roman Emperor (assassinated) (b. 420)   

0479  On this day in history death of emperor YÅ«ryaku of Japan   

1033  Death of Frederick II, duke of Upper Lorraine on August - 07.   

1106  On this day in history henry IV, Roman German king/emperor (1056/84-1105), dies at 54   

1485  On August - 07 death of alexander Stewart, 1st Duke of Albany, Scottish prince   

1547  On August - 07 cajetanus van Thiene, Italian saint, dies   

1609  Eustache du Caurroy, composer, dies at 60 on this day in history.   

1613  On this day in history death of thomas Fleming, English judge (b. 1544)