Page 3: Historical Events In August - 10
Friday, 13 March 2026
1801 Robert Woodward Barnwell, MC (Confederacy), died in 1882. 

1802 Aepinus, [Franz UT Hoch], German physician/physicist, dies at 77 

1806 Johann Michael Haydn, composer, dies at 68 

1808 Carl Friedrich Weitzmann, composer. 

1809 Ecuador declares independence from Spain. 

1809 Ecuador declares independence from Spain (National Day) 

1810 Camilio Benso di Cavour, Turin Italy, PM. 

1814 Jacob Edvard Gille, composer. 

1821 Missouri admitted as 24th US state 

1821 Salvatore Vigano, composer, dies at 52. 

1822 Antioch Syria, hit by Earthquake; about 20000 die 

1823 Charles Keene, Hornsey, artist 

1827 Race riots in Cincinnati (1000 blacks leave for Canada) 

1831 Former slave Nat Turner led violent insurrection against slavery. 

1831 Former slave Nat Turner leads uprising against slavery. 

1833 Chicago incorporates as a village of about 200. 

1835 Mob of whites and oxen pulled black school to a swamp out of Canaan NH 

1835 Gyula Beliczay, composer. 

1836 Jose Teodor Vilar, composer. 

1840 The 'Star of the East' inaugural known balloon to fly in Canada 

1841 Hippolyte Monpou, composer, dies at 37. 

1843 Jakob F Fries, German philosopher, dies 

1845 Kunanbajew, writer 

1846 Congress charters the "nation's attic," the Smithsonian Institution. 

1846 Smithsonian Institution founded in the United States. 

1846 Congress charters "nation's attic," Smithsonian Institution. 

1854 J Scott Lidgett, London, theologist 

1856 Hurricane washes away 300 in Louisiana 

1856 Hurricane washes away 2-300 revelers at Last Island, Louisiana 

1856 Paul Geisler, composer 

1857 John Wilson Croker, politician. 

1859 George Staunton, writer 

1861 Battle of Wilson's Creek MO (Springfield, Oak Hills)-Gen Lyon killed. 

1861 Almroth Wright, Yorkshire England, bacteriologist 

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