Page 2: Historical Events In August - 06
Wednesday, 21 January 2026
1665 Jean-Baptiste Lully, composer 

1666 Tsjerk H de Vries, fleet guardian, dies in Battle at 43. 

1675 Russian Czar Aleksei bans foreign hairs cut. 

1686 Paul Hainlein, composer, dies at 60. 

1697 Charles VII, Holy Roman emperor (1742-45). 

1718 Jacob F Muller, [Sjako/Jaco], Germ/Neth crowd leader, beheaded at 28 

1726 Emperor Karel VI and tsarina Catharina the Great sign military treaty 

1727 Francois Valentijn, vicar/writer, dies at 61 

1746 Christian VI, king of Denmark/Norway, dies. 

1748 Bernhard Haltenberger, composer. 

1774 Founder of the Shaker Movement, Mother Ann Lee, arrives in NY 

1775 Louis-Antoine the Bourbon, French duke of Angouleme/General of France. 

1775 Heinrich Nikolaus Gerber, composer, dies at 72 

1783 Willem Bachiene, vicar/theologist/geography/astronomer, dies at 70. 

1784 Karl Kohaut, composer, dies at 57 

1787 Constitutional Convention in Phila begans debate. 

1799 Joseph Friebert, composer, dies at 74. 

1800 Catherine Beecher, educator (championed higher education for women) 

1804 Justinus van der Brugghen, Dutch lawyer/minister of Justice (1856-58). 

1806 Holy Roman Empire ends. 

1806 Holy Roman empire officially ends. 

1806 Holy Roman Empire ends; it was neither holy, Roman, nor an empire 

1809 Alfred Tennyson, English poet is born 

1809 Alfred Lord Tennyson, poet laureate of England 

1811 Judah Philip Benjamin, Secy War/Secy State (Confederacy) [or Aug 11] 

1815 US flotilla ends piracy by Algiers, Tunis and Tripoli 

1816 Karl Frieberth, composer, dies at 80. 

1819 Norwich University is founded in Vermont as the inaugural private military school in the United States. 

1819 Samuel Powhatan Carter, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers) 

1820 Antonin Vranicky, composer, dies at 59. 

1821 1st edition of "Courrier of Pays-Bas" newspaper published in Brussels. 

1821 Antonio Bartolomeo Bruni, composer, dies at 64. 

1824 Battle at Junan. 

1825 Bolivia gains independence from Peru 

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