Historical Events In August - 14

1740  Pius VII, [Luigi B Chiaramonti], bishop of Imola/Pope (1800-23) on August - 14.  

1742  On August - 14 marie Allard, French ballerina (Auguste Vestris)  

1743  On August - 14 prussian army occupies Saksen, beginning 2nd Silezian War  

1756  On August - 14 french capture Fort Oswego, NY  

1758  Battle at Zorndorf: Prussia beat Russia, 1000s killed on August - 14.  

1758  On this day in history carle [Antoine CH] Vernet, French painter/lithographer  

1762  English fleet occupies Havana on August - 14.  

1763  On August - 14 giovanni Battista Somis, composer, dies at 76  

1765  On this day in history mass colonists challenge British rule by an Elm (Liberty Tree)  

1769  On this day in history friedrich Ludwig Dulon, flautist/composer  

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1777  Hans Christian Oersted, Den, physicist/chemist (View of Chemical Law) on August - 14.  

1778  On August - 14 augustus Montague Toplady, hymn writer (Rock of Ages), dies  

1782  Suriname forbids selling slave mothers without their babies on this day in history.  

1784  On August - 14 first Russian colony in Alaska is founded on Kodiak Island.  

1784  On this day in history francesco Capaccini, Italian cardinal/diplomat  

1785  On August - 14 john William Fletcher, evangelist, dies  

1788  Thomas Sheridan, actor/biographer/lexicographer (Intelligencer), dies on August - 14.  

1790  On this day in history sweden & Russia sign Peace of Verela  

1794  George Colman, the Elder, playwright, dies on August - 14.  

1802  Letitia Elizabeth Landon, England, poet (Heath's Book of Beauty) on this day in history.  

1810  Samuel Sebastian Wesley, composer on August - 14.  

1813  British warship Pelican attacks and captures US war brigantine Argus on this day in history.  

1813  British warship Pelican attacks & captures US war brigantine Argus on this day in history.  

1814  Henry Hayes Lockwood, Brig General (Union volunteers), died in 1899 on this day in history.  

1816  On August - 14 great Britain annexes Tristan da Cunha  

1820  1st US eye hospital, the NY Eye Infirmary, opens in NYC on August - 14.  

1821  Clement Hoffman "Rock" Stevens, Brig General (Confederate Army) on this day in history.  

1823  Karel Miry, composer on August - 14.  

1824  General Lafayette returns to US on this day in history.  

1824  On this day in history william Terry, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1888  

1825  Dutch King Willem I throws foreign students out on this day in history.  

1833  On this day in history luigi Cagnola, architect, dies  

1834  Friedrich Christian Ruppe, composer, dies at 63 on August - 14.  

1836  On this day in history walter Besant, writer/philanthropist (Rebel Queen)  

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1297  Emperor Hanazono, Emperor of Japan (d. 1348) was born on August - 14.  

1473  Margaret Pole, 8th Countess of Salisbury, daughter of George, Duke of Clarence (d. 1541) was born on August - 14.  

1479  On August - 14 birth of princess Catherine of York (d. 1527)  

1552  Fra Paolo Sarpi, [Paulus Venetus], expert/philosopher was born on August - 14.  

1575  Robert Hayman, English-born poet (d. 1629) was born on August - 14.  

1586  On this day in history birth of william Hutchinson, Rhode Island colonist (d. 1642)  

1599  Méric Casaubon, English classical scholar (d. 1671) was born on this day in history.  

1625  On August - 14 birth of françois de Harlay de Champvallon, Archbishop of Paris (d. 1695)  

0582  Death of Tiberius II Constantine, Byzantine Emperor on this day in history.  

1167  On this day in history raynald van Dassel, archbishop of Cologne, dies  

1204  Death of Minamoto no Yoriie, Japanese shogun (b. 1182) on this day in history.  

1390  Death of John FitzAlan, 2nd Baron Arundel, English soldier (b. 1364) on this day in history.  

1433  Johan I, king of Portugal (1383-1433), dies at 76 on August - 14.  

1573  Death of Saitō Tatsuoki, Japanese warlord (b. 1548) on this day in history.  

1587  Gugliemo Gonzaga, composer, dies at 49 on this day in history.  

1652  On this day in history abraham Elsevier, book publisher/publisher, dies at 60