Historical Events In August - 14
Thursday, 28 March 2024
1740 Pius VII, [Luigi B Chiaramonti], bishop of Imola/Pope (1800-23) on this day in history.
1742 On August - 14 marie Allard, French ballerina (Auguste Vestris)
1743 On August - 14 prussian army occupies Saksen, beginning 2nd Silezian War
1756 French capture Fort Oswego, NY on this day in history.
1758 On this day in history battle at Zorndorf: Prussia beat Russia, 1000s killed
1758 Carle [Antoine CH] Vernet, French painter/lithographer on August - 14.
1762 On August - 14 english fleet occupies Havana
1763 Giovanni Battista Somis, composer, dies at 76 on this day in history.
1765 On this day in history mass colonists challenge British rule by an Elm (Liberty Tree)
1769 Friedrich Ludwig Dulon, flautist/composer on this day in history.
1777 Hans Christian Oersted, Den, physicist/chemist (View of Chemical Law) on August - 14.
1778 Augustus Montague Toplady, hymn writer (Rock of Ages), dies on August - 14.
1782 On August - 14 suriname forbids selling slave mothers without their babies
1784 On this day in history first Russian colony in Alaska is founded on Kodiak Island.
1784 On August - 14 francesco Capaccini, Italian cardinal/diplomat
1785 John William Fletcher, evangelist, dies on August - 14.
1788 Thomas Sheridan, actor/biographer/lexicographer (Intelligencer), dies on this day in history.
1790 On August - 14 sweden & Russia sign Peace of Verela
1794 George Colman, the Elder, playwright, dies on this day in history.
1802 On this day in history letitia Elizabeth Landon, England, poet (Heath's Book of Beauty)
1810 Samuel Sebastian Wesley, composer on August - 14.
1813 On August - 14 british warship Pelican attacks and captures US war brigantine Argus
1813 British warship Pelican attacks & captures US war brigantine Argus on August - 14.
1814 On this day in history henry Hayes Lockwood, Brig General (Union volunteers), died in 1899
1816 Great Britain annexes Tristan da Cunha on August - 14.
1820 1st US eye hospital, the NY Eye Infirmary, opens in NYC on this day in history.
1821 On this day in history clement Hoffman "Rock" Stevens, Brig General (Confederate Army)
1823 On August - 14 karel Miry, composer
1824 On August - 14 general Lafayette returns to US
1824 William Terry, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1888 on this day in history.
1825 On this day in history dutch King Willem I throws foreign students out
1833 Luigi Cagnola, architect, dies on this day in history.
1834 Friedrich Christian Ruppe, composer, dies at 63 on August - 14.
1836 Walter Besant, writer/philanthropist (Rebel Queen) on this day in history.
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