Page 3: Historical Events In August - 12

1822  On this day in history robert Stewart, 2nd marguess of Londonderry, commits suicide, dies   

1825  On August - 12 frederick Arthur Gore Ouseley, composer   

1827  On August - 12 william Blake, English poet/painter, dies at 69   

1829  On this day in history john Horace Forney, Major General (Confederate Army), died in 1902   

1830  On August - 12 franz de Paula Roser, composer, dies at 50   

1831  Dutch troops conquer Leuven on August - 12.   

1832  On August - 12 hely Hutchinson Almond, politician/doctor   

1833  On August - 12 chicago is founded.   

1833  On this day in history william Price Sanders, Brig General (Union volunteers), died in 1863   

1838  Joseph Barnby, conductor/academic principal on this day in history.   

1845  On August - 12 off Point Pelee, Ontario the steamships Kent and London collide in clear weather, with the loss of ten lives.   

1848  Macellus Emants, Dutch writer/poet (Along the Nile) on this day in history.   

1848  On August - 12 george Stephenson, locomotive engineer, dies   

1849  On this day in history abbott Handerson Thayer, painter/naturalist   

1849  Abraham AA "Albert" Gallatin, Min of Finance (1801-14), dies at 88 on August - 12.   

1851  On August - 12 isaac Singer granted patent for his sewing machine   

1851  1st America's Cup-US schooner America beats British yacht Aurora on August - 12.   

1853  On August - 12 jean Louis Nicode, composer   

1854  On this day in history alfred Gilbert, sculptor/goldsmith   

1856  Anthony Fass patents accordion on August - 12.   

1857  William Daniel Conybeare, geologist, dies on August - 12.   

1859  Katharine Lee Bates, US, author (America the Beautiful) on this day in history.   

1861  Skirmish at Texas-rebels are attacked by Apache Indians on this day in history.   

1862  On this day in history gen John Hunt Morgan and his raiders capture Gallatin, TX   

1862  On this day in history gen John Hunt Morgan & his raiders capture Gallatin, TX   

1863  First cargo of lumber leaves Burrard Inlet (Vancouver, BC area) on August - 12.   

1863  On August - 12 the first cargo of lumber leaves Burrard Inlet for export.   

1863  1st cargo of lumber leaves Burrard Inlet (Vancouver, BC area) on August - 12.   

1865  On this day in history william Jackson Hooker, botanist, dies   

1866  On August - 12 jacinto Benavente y Martínez, Spanish playwright (Nobel 1922)   

1867  On August - 12 pres A Johnson defies Congress suspending Sec of War Edwin Stanton   

1867  On this day in history edith Hamilton, US, writer (Mythology)   

1868  Frederick JNT lord Chelmsford, viceroy of British-India (1916-21) on August - 12.   

1875  On this day in history ettore Panizza, composer   

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1503  On August - 12 birth of christian III, king of Denmark/Norway (1534-59)   

1566  Isabella CE, infante of Spain/governess of the Netherlands was born on this day in history.   

1592  On this day in history birth of willem earl of Nassau-Siegen, Dutch gov (Fort Emmerik/Heusden)   

1604  On this day in history birth of tokugawa Iemitsu, Japanese shogun (d. 1651)   

1620  On August - 12 birth of pieter Cuypers, S Neth lawyer   

1626  Giovanni Legrenzi, composer was born on August - 12.   

1629  On this day in history birth of tsar Alexei I of Russia (d. 1676)   

1644  Georg Christoph Leuttner, composer was born on this day in history.   

0030  On August - 12 death of cleopatra VII Thea Philopator (b. 69 BC)   

0875  On this day in history louis II, king of Italy/emperor of France, dies at about 50   

1158  Anselmus van Havelberg, Brandenburg bshp of Havelberg (1129-55), dies on August - 12.   

1350  Philip VI, king of France, dies on this day in history.   

1424  Death of Yongle, Emperor of China (b. 1360) on August - 12.   

1484  On August - 12 sixtus IV, [Francesco della Rovere], Pope (1471-84), dies   

1546  On this day in history francisco de Vitoria, Spanish theology/lawyer, dies   

1577  Death of Thomas Smith, English diplomat and scholar (b. 1513) on August - 12.