Page 2: Historical Events In August - 13

1704  On August - 13 lorenzo Fago, composer   

1705  On this day in history battle of Blenheim, in southern Germany   

1713  King Frederik Willem declares war on Brandenburg-Prussia on August - 13.   

1717  Christoph Nichelsmann, German composer on August - 13.   

1721  On this day in history francis Ireland, composer   

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

1740  On this day in history hunger strike in Rotterdam   

1747  On this day in history adrien-Joseph van Helmont, composer   

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

1749  On August - 13 j E Schlegel, writer, dies   

1756  On this day in history the birth of Queen Adelaide, Consort of William IV   

1762  On this day in history john Alberti, theologist/philological, dies at 64   

1777  American explosive device made by David Bushnell explodes near British vessel off New London, CT on August - 13.   

1784  English parliament accept India Act on this day in history.   

1787  Isaac de Pinto, merchant/lender/Dutch States-general, dies on this day in history.   

1788  On August - 13 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 on this day in history.   

1799  English fleet under lord Seymour overthrows Suriname on August - 13.   

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

1808  On August - 13 henri Hardouin, composer, dies at 81   

1814  On August - 13 cape of Good Hope formally ceded to British by the Dutch   

1817  Karoly Thern, composer on this day in history.   

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  George Grove, London, England, biblical scholar/misicographer on this day in history.   

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

1831  On this day in history nat Turner leads uprising of slaves in Virginia   

1831  On August - 13 salomon Jaoassohn, composer   

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

1841  Unaarrimin, cricketer (played cricket as Johnny Mullagh) on August - 13.   

1841  On this day in history bernhard Heinrich Romberg, German composer, dies at 73   

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

1846  On August - 13 joint expedition led by CDR Robert Stockton seizes Los Angeles, CA   

1851  John Lincoln Clem, Drummer (Union volunteers), died in 1937 on this day in history.   

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0582  Arnulf of Metz, French bishop and saint (d. 640) was born on August - 13.   

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

1422  On August - 13 birth of william Caxton, 1st English printer (Histories of Troy)   

1584  Theophilus Howard, 2nd Earl of Suffolk, English politician (d. 1640) was born on this day in history.   

1617  On this day in history birth of johann A Quenstedt, German Lutherian theologist   

1625  On this day in history birth of rasmus Bartholin, Danish physician, mathematician, and physicist (d. 1698)   

1655  On August - 13 birth of johann Christoph Denner, inventor (clarinet)   

1662  On August - 13 birth of charles Seymour, 6th Duke of Somerset, English politician (d. 1748)   

0586  Death of Radegund, wife of Clotaire I on this day in history.   

0587  On this day in history radegundis, daughter of Thurings king Berthar/saint, dies   

0662  On August - 13 maximus Confessor, Greek theologist/crusader, dies   

0900  On August - 13 zwentibold, king of Lutherans (895-900), dies in battle at 29   

1134  Irene [Pirisca], Byzantine empress, dies on August - 13.   

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

1278  Daikaku, Zen teacher Rinzai line/head of Kenchoji, dies in Japan at 65 on this day in history.   

1382  On this day in history death of eleanor of Aragon, wife of John I of Castile (b. 1358)