Historical Events In August - 06

1664  Johann Christoph Schmidt, composer on August - 06.  

1665  On August - 06 jean-Baptiste Lully, composer  

1666  On this day in history tsjerk H de Vries, fleet guardian, dies in Battle at 43  

1675  On August - 06 russian Czar Aleksei bans foreign hairs cut  

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

1697  Charles VII, Holy Roman emperor (1742-45) on August - 06.  

1718  On August - 06 jacob F Muller, [Sjako/Jaco], Germ/Neth crowd leader, beheaded at 28  

1726  Emperor Karel VI & tsarina Catharina the Great sign military treaty on August - 06.  

1727  Francois Valentijn, vicar/writer, dies at 61 on this day in history.  

1746  Christian VI, king of Denmark/Norway, dies on August - 06.  

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1748  Bernhard Haltenberger, composer on August - 06.  

1774  On this day in history founder of the Shaker Movement, Mother Ann Lee, arrives in NY  

1775  On this day in history louis-Antoine the Bourbon, French duke of Angouleme/General of France  

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

1783  Willem Bachiene, vicar/theologist/geography/astronomer, dies at 70 on this day in history.  

1784  Karl Kohaut, composer, dies at 57 on this day in history.  

1787  Constitutional Convention in Phila begans debate on August - 06.  

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

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

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

1806  On this day in history 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  The birth of Alfred Tennyson, English poet on August - 06.  

1809  Alfred Lord Tennyson, poet laureate of England on August - 06.  

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

1815  US flotilla ends piracy by Algiers, Tunis &Tripoli on August - 06.  

1815  US flotilla ends piracy by Algiers, Tunis & Tripoli on August - 06.  

1816  Karl Frieberth, composer, dies at 80 on August - 06.  

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 August - 06.  

1820  Antonin Vranicky, composer, dies at 59 on this day in history.  

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

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

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1180  On this day in history birth of emperor Go-Toba of Japan (d. 1239)  

1504  On August - 06 birth of matthew "Nosey" Parker, archbishop of Canterbury  

1609  Richard Bennett, British Colonial Governor of Virginia (d. 1675) was born on August - 06.  

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

1638  Nicolas de Malebranche, French philosopher was born on this day in history.  

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

1651  Francois Fenelon, France, writer (Playing for Time) was born on August - 06.  

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  Hormisdas, Pope (514-23), dies on this day in history.  

0966  On this day in history death of berengarius II, markgraaf of Ivrea/king of Italy (950-963)  

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

1195  On this day in history henry de Leeuw, duke of Saxon/Bayern, dies  

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

1272  On this day in history stefanus V, prince of Transylvania/king of Hungary (1270-72), dies  

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