Page 2: Historical Events In August - 13

1704  Lorenzo Fago, composer   

1705  Battle of Blenheim, in southern Germany   

1713  King Frederik Willem declares war on Brandenburg-Prussia.   

1717  Christoph Nichelsmann, German composer   

1721  Francis Ireland, composer   

1732  Voltaire's "Zaire," premieres in Paris   

1740  Hunger strike in Rotterdam.   

1747  Adrien-Joseph van Helmont, composer.   

1748  Pieter L van de Kasteele, Dutch politician/patriot   

1749  J E Schlegel, writer, dies   

1756  Queen Adelaide, Consort of William IV is born.   

1762  John Alberti, theologist/philological, dies at 64   

1777  American explosive device made by David Bushnell explodes near British vessel off New London, CT.   

1784  English parliament accept India Act.   

1787  Isaac de Pinto, merchant/lender/Dutch States-general, dies   

1788  Prussia joins Anglo-Dutch alliance to form Triple Alliance to prevent spread of Russo-Swedish War of 1788-90.   

1792  Revolutionaries imprison French royals including Marie Antoinette.   

1799  English fleet under lord Seymour overthrows Suriname   

1802  Nikolaus Lenau, Hungary, German poet (Faust, Die Albigenser).   

1808  Henri Hardouin, composer, dies at 81   

1814  Cape of Good Hope formally ceded to British by the Dutch.   

1817  Karoly Thern, composer   

1818  Lucy Blackwell-Stone, US abolitionist (US Woman's Suffrage Assn).   

1819  George Gabriel Stokes, physicist/mathematician (spectroscope).   

1820  George Grove, London, England, biblical scholar/misicographer   

1826  William Thomas Best, composer.   

1831  Nat Turner leads uprising of slaves in Virginia.   

1831  Salomon Jaoassohn, composer   

1840  Giovanni Verga, Italian writer (Eros)   

1841  Unaarrimin, cricketer (played cricket as Johnny Mullagh).   

1841  Bernhard Heinrich Romberg, German composer, dies at 73.   

1844  Explorer Ludwig Leichhardt leaves Brisbane to explore unknown territory beyond the Darling Downs   

1846  Joint expedition led by CDR Robert Stockton seizes Los Angeles, CA.   

1851  John Lincoln Clem, Drummer (Union volunteers), died in 1937   

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0582  Arnulf of metz: French bishop and saint   

1311  King alfonso xi of castile and leon: King alfonso xi of castile and leon (d. 1350)   

1422  William caxton: 1st english printer (histories of troy)   

1584  Theophilus howard: 2nd earl of suffolk, english politician   

1617  Johann a quenstedt: German lutherian theologist   

1625  Rasmus bartholin: Danish physician, mathematician, and physicist   

1655  Johann christoph denner: Inventor (clarinet)   

1662  Charles seymour: 6th duke of somerset, english politician   

0586  Death of Radegund: Wife of clotaire i   

0587  Death of Radegundis: Daughter of thurings king berthar/saint,   

0662  Maximus confessor: Greek theologist/crusader,   

0900  Death of Zwentibold: King of lutherans (895-900),   

1134  Irene [pirisca]: Byzantine empress,   

1191  Philips van heinsberg: Archbishop of cologne,   

1278  Daikaku: Zen teacher rinzai line/head of kenchoji,   

1382  Eleanor of aragon: Wife of john i of castile (b. 1358)