Page 2: Historical Events In August - 13

1704  Lorenzo Fago, composer on August - 13.   

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

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

1717  On August - 13 christoph Nichelsmann, German composer   

1721  On August - 13 francis Ireland, composer   

1732  Voltaire's "Zaire," premieres in Paris on this day in history.   

1740  On this day in history hunger strike in Rotterdam   

1747  Adrien-Joseph van Helmont, composer on August - 13.   

1748  Pieter L van de Kasteele, Dutch politician/patriot on August - 13.   

1749  On this day in history j E Schlegel, writer, dies   

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

1762  John Alberti, theologist/philological, dies at 64 on August - 13.   

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  On August - 13 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 on this day in history.   

1792  Revolutionaries imprison French royals including Marie Antoinette on August - 13.   

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

1802  Nikolaus Lenau, Hungary, German poet (Faust, Die Albigenser) on August - 13.   

1808  On this day in history henri Hardouin, composer, dies at 81   

1814  On this day in history cape of Good Hope formally ceded to British by the Dutch   

1817  On August - 13 karoly Thern, composer   

1818  Lucy Blackwell-Stone, US abolitionist (US Woman's Suffrage Assn) on August - 13.   

1819  George Gabriel Stokes, physicist/mathematician (spectroscope) on this day in history.   

1820  On this day in history george Grove, London, England, biblical scholar/misicographer   

1826  William Thomas Best, composer on August - 13.   

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

1841  Bernhard Heinrich Romberg, German composer, dies at 73 on August - 13.   

1844  On August - 13 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  On August - 13 john Lincoln Clem, Drummer (Union volunteers), died in 1937   

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0582  On August - 13 birth of arnulf of Metz, French bishop and saint (d. 640)   

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

1422  William Caxton, 1st English printer (Histories of Troy) was born on August - 13.   

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

1617  On August - 13 birth of johann A Quenstedt, German Lutherian theologist   

1625  Rasmus Bartholin, Danish physician, mathematician, and physicist (d. 1698) was born on August - 13.   

1655  Johann Christoph Denner, inventor (clarinet) was born on August - 13.   

1662  Charles Seymour, 6th Duke of Somerset, English politician (d. 1748) was born on August - 13.   

0586  Death of Radegund, wife of Clotaire I on August - 13.   

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

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

0900  On this day in history zwentibold, king of Lutherans (895-900), dies in battle at 29   

1134  Irene [Pirisca], Byzantine empress, dies on this day in history.   

1191  Philips van Heinsberg, archbishop of Cologne, dies on this day in history.   

1278  On this day in history 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.