Historical Events In August - 15
Monday, 01 March 2021
1807 Johann N Tetens, German/Danish philosopher/mathematician, dies at 70 on this day in history.
1808 A British mission to Japan arrives but the Tokugawa shogun Ienari rejects the emissaries on this day in history.
1822 On this day in history census shows Upper Canada has 120,000 inhabitants, Lower Canada 500,000.
1822 Wilhelm Rust, composer on this day in history.
1823 Orris Sanford Ferry, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers) on August - 15.
1824 Freed American slaves forms country of Liberia on August - 15.
1829 Eduard de Hartog, composer on this day in history.
1832 On August - 15 gregory XVI encyclical On liberalism and religious indifferentism
1832 On this day in history gregory XVI encyclical On liberalism & religious indifferentism
1834 South Australia Act is passed by Britain's Parliament, allowing for establishment of colony there on this day in history.
1839 On August - 15 hugh Archibald Clarke, composer
1843 On August - 15 national black convention meets (Buffalo NY)
1845 Walter Crane, England, painter/illustrator (Beauty & Beast) on this day in history.
1848 On August - 15 m Waldo Hanchett patents dental chair
1848 On this day in history timothy Olmstead, composer, dies at 88
1851 [Georgette A] Helena Amelung, Dutch actress (Scapegoat) on this day in history.
1852 Johan Gadolin, Finnish chemist (discovered yttrium), dies at 92 on August - 15.
1853 Giovanni Battista Polledro, composer, dies at 72 on this day in history.
1856 On this day in history j Keir Hardie, 1st Labour representative in British Parliament
1858 Regular mail to the Pacific coast begins on this day in history.
1858 On this day in history regular mail to Pacific coast begins
1860 Florence Kling DeWolfe Harding, 1st lady (1921-23) on this day in history.
1861 Lincoln directs reinforcements to be sent to MO on August - 15.
1863 On this day in history submarine "HL Hunley" arrives in Charleston on railroad cars
1864 Off New England coast, CSS Tallahassee captures 6 yankee schooners on this day in history.
1864 Daniel Phineas Woodbury, US engineer/Union general-major, dies on August - 15.
1865 Johan[nes] B Schepers, Frisian writer (Braga) on this day in history.
1867 2nd Reform Bill extends suffrage in England on August - 15.
1869 The Meiji government in Japan establishes six new ministries, including one for Shinto on this day in history.
1870 On August - 15 transcontinental Railway actually completed
1870 Transcontinental Railway actually completed in Colorado on this day in history.
1872 Harold Fraser-Simson, composer on August - 15.
1874 On this day in history joseph Klausner, Polish/Israeli new testament expert
1875 Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, London, composer (Hiawatha's Wedding Feast) on this day in history.
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