Page 2: Historical Events In August - 07

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

1783  On this day in history john Heathcoat, inventor (lace-making machinery)   

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

1789  On August - 07 uS War Department established   

1789  On this day in history congress creates Dept of War & Lighthouse Service   

1798  On this day in history johann Gottlieb Sollner, composer, dies at 65   

1799  On August - 07 john Bacon, English sculptor, dies at 58   

1802  Napoleon orders re-instatement of slavery on St Domingue (Haiti) on this day in history.   

1814  Pope Pius VII reinstates Jesuits on August - 07.   

1816  On this day in history dionysius G van der Keessel, Dut lawyer (Theses selectae), dies at 77   

1818  On August - 07 henry Charles Litolff, French composer/pianist   

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

1819  Battle of Boyacá; Bolívar defeats Spanish in Colombia on August - 07.   

1820  First potatoes planted in Hawaii on this day in history.   

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

1823  Faustina Hasse Hodges, composer on this day in history.   

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  On August - 07 evander McIvor Law, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1920   

1846  Johann Christian Heinrich Rinck, composer, dies at 76 on August - 07.   

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  Emil Nolde, [Hansen], German painter/graphic artist on this day in history.   

1867  Ira F Aldridge, US actor (Othello/Shylock), dies in Lodes Poland at 63 on August - 07.   

1868  Granville Bantock, English composer/conductor (Hebridean Symphony) on August - 07.   

1870  On August - 07 19 kittens, born to Tarawood Antigone (4 still born)   

1872  Andries C D de Graeff, governor-general of Neth Indies (1926-31) on this day in history.   

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

1876  On this day in history mata Hari, [Margaretha G Zelle], dancer/courtesan/spy (WW I)   

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

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

1880  On August - 07 ernst Laqueur, chemist/pharmacology/psychology (sexual hormones)   

1882  Hatfields of south WV & McCoys of east Ky feud, 100 wounded. Many dead on this day in history.   

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1282  On August - 07 birth of princess Elizabeth of Rhuddlan (d. 1316)   

1533  Alonso de Ercilla y Zúñiga, Basque soldier and poet (d. 1595) was born on August - 07.   

1560  Elizabeth Báthory, Hungarian countess and serial killer (d. 1614) was born on this day in history.   

1574  Robert Dudley, styled Earl of Warwick, English writer (d. 1649) was born on this day in history.   

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

1726  On this day in history birth of james Bowdoin, American Revolutionary leader and politician (d. 1790)   

1742  Nathanael Greene, American Revoluntionary War General was born on this day in history.   

1746  Daniel W Wyttenbach, Dutch classical/historian was born on this day in history.   

0461  Death of Majorian, Roman Emperor (assassinated) (b. 420) on this day in history.   

0479  On August - 07 death of emperor YÅ«ryaku of Japan   

1033  Death of Frederick II, duke of Upper Lorraine on this day in history.   

1106  Henry IV, Roman German king/emperor (1056/84-1105), dies at 54 on August - 07.   

1485  On this day in history death of alexander Stewart, 1st Duke of Albany, Scottish prince   

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

1609  On August - 07 eustache du Caurroy, composer, dies at 60   

1613  On August - 07 death of thomas Fleming, English judge (b. 1544)