Page 2: Historical Events In August - 13

1704  On this day in history lorenzo Fago, composer   

1705  On August - 13 battle of Blenheim, in southern Germany   

1713  King Frederik Willem declares war on Brandenburg-Prussia on this day in history.   

1717  On this day in history christoph Nichelsmann, German composer   

1721  On this day in history francis Ireland, composer   

1732  On this day in history voltaire's "Zaire," premieres in Paris   

1740  Hunger strike in Rotterdam on August - 13.   

1747  Adrien-Joseph van Helmont, composer on this day in history.   

1748  On this day in history pieter L van de Kasteele, Dutch politician/patriot   

1749  J E Schlegel, writer, dies on this day in history.   

1756  The birth of Queen Adelaide, Consort of William IV on August - 13.   

1762  On August - 13 john Alberti, theologist/philological, dies at 64   

1777  On this day in history american explosive device made by David Bushnell explodes near British vessel off New London, CT.   

1784  On this day in history english parliament accept India Act   

1787  On this day in history isaac de Pinto, merchant/lender/Dutch States-general, dies   

1788  On August - 13 prussia joins Anglo-Dutch alliance to form Triple Alliance to prevent spread of Russo-Swedish War of 1788-90   

1792  On August - 13 revolutionaries imprison French royals including Marie Antoinette   

1799  On this day in history english fleet under lord Seymour overthrows Suriname   

1802  On August - 13 nikolaus Lenau, Hungary, German poet (Faust, Die Albigenser)   

1808  Henri Hardouin, composer, dies at 81 on this day in history.   

1814  Cape of Good Hope formally ceded to British by the Dutch on August - 13.   

1817  On this day in history karoly Thern, composer   

1818  Lucy Blackwell-Stone, US abolitionist (US Woman's Suffrage Assn) on this day in history.   

1819  On August - 13 george Gabriel Stokes, physicist/mathematician (spectroscope)   

1820  On August - 13 george Grove, London, England, biblical scholar/misicographer   

1826  William Thomas Best, composer on this day in history.   

1831  Nat Turner leads uprising of slaves in Virginia on this day in history.   

1831  Salomon Jaoassohn, composer on August - 13.   

1840  Giovanni Verga, Italian writer (Eros) on this day in history.   

1841  On this day in history unaarrimin, cricketer (played cricket as Johnny Mullagh)   

1841  Bernhard Heinrich Romberg, German composer, dies at 73 on this day in history.   

1844  Explorer Ludwig Leichhardt leaves Brisbane to explore unknown territory beyond the Darling Downs on this day in history.   

1846  On this day in history joint expedition led by CDR Robert Stockton seizes Los Angeles, CA   

1851  On August - 13 john Lincoln Clem, Drummer (Union volunteers), died in 1937   

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0582  Arnulf of Metz, French bishop and saint (d. 640) was born on this day in history.   

1311  On this day in history birth of king Alfonso XI of Castile and Leon (d. 1350)   

1422  On this day in history birth of william Caxton, 1st English printer (Histories of Troy)   

1584  On August - 13 birth of theophilus Howard, 2nd Earl of Suffolk, English politician (d. 1640)   

1617  Johann A Quenstedt, German Lutherian theologist was born on August - 13.   

1625  On August - 13 birth of rasmus Bartholin, Danish physician, mathematician, and physicist (d. 1698)   

1655  On this day in history birth of johann Christoph Denner, inventor (clarinet)   

1662  On this day in history birth of charles Seymour, 6th Duke of Somerset, English politician (d. 1748)   

0586  On August - 13 death of radegund, wife of Clotaire I   

0587  On August - 13 radegundis, daughter of Thurings king Berthar/saint, dies   

0662  On this day in history maximus Confessor, Greek theologist/crusader, dies   

0900  Zwentibold, king of Lutherans (895-900), dies in battle at 29 on this day in history.   

1134  On August - 13 irene [Pirisca], Byzantine empress, dies   

1191  On August - 13 philips van Heinsberg, archbishop of Cologne, dies   

1278  On August - 13 daikaku, Zen teacher Rinzai line/head of Kenchoji, dies in Japan at 65   

1382  Death of Eleanor of Aragon, wife of John I of Castile (b. 1358) on this day in history.