Page 2: Historical Events In August - 14

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

1742  Marie Allard, French ballerina (Auguste Vestris).   

1743  Prussian army occupies Saksen, beginning 2nd Silezian War   

1756  French capture Fort Oswego, NY.   

1758  Battle at Zorndorf: Prussia beat Russia, 1000s killed.   

1758  Carle [Antoine CH] Vernet, French painter/lithographer.   

1762  English fleet occupies Havana.   

1763  Giovanni Battista Somis, composer, dies at 76.   

1765  Mass colonists challenge British rule by an Elm (Liberty Tree).   

1769  Friedrich Ludwig Dulon, flautist/composer.   

1777  Hans Christian Oersted, Den, physicist/chemist (View of Chemical Law)   

1778  Augustus Montague Toplady, hymn writer (Rock of Ages), dies   

1782  Suriname forbids selling slave mothers without their babies   

1784  inaugural Russian colony in Alaska is founded on Kodiak Island   

1784  Francesco Capaccini, Italian cardinal/diplomat.   

1785  John William Fletcher, evangelist, dies.   

1788  Thomas Sheridan, actor/biographer/lexicographer (Intelligencer), dies   

1790  Sweden and Russia sign Peace of Verela.   

1794  George Colman, the Elder, playwright, dies   

1802  Letitia Elizabeth Landon, England, poet (Heath's Book of Beauty)   

1810  Samuel Sebastian Wesley, composer.   

1813  British warship Pelican attacks and captures US war brigantine Argus   

1814  Henry Hayes Lockwood, Brig General (Union volunteers), died in 1899.   

1816  Great Britain annexes Tristan da Cunha   

1820  1st US eye hospital, the NY Eye Infirmary, opens in NYC.   

1821  Clement Hoffman "Rock" Stevens, Brig General (Confederate Army).   

1823  Karel Miry, composer.   

1824  General Lafayette returns to US.   

1824  William Terry, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1888   

1825  Dutch King Willem I throws foreign students out.   

1833  Luigi Cagnola, architect, dies.   

1834  Friedrich Christian Ruppe, composer, dies at 63   

1836  Walter Besant, writer/philanthropist (Rebel Queen)   

1840  Baron Richard Freiherr von Krafft-Ebing, psychiatrist   

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1297  Emperor hanazono: Emperor of japan   

1473  Margaret pole: 8th countess of salisbury, daughter of george, duke of clarence   

1479  Princess catherine of york: Princess catherine of york (d. 1527)   

1552  Fra paolo sarpi: [paulus venetus], expert/philosopher   

1575  Robert hayman: English-born poet   

1586  William hutchinson: Rhode island colonist   

1599  Méric casaubon: English classical scholar   

1625  François de harlay de champvallon: Archbishop of paris   

0582  Tiberius ii constantine: Byzantine emperor   

1167  Death of Raynald van dassel: Archbishop of cologne,   

1204  Death of Minamoto no yoriie: Japanese shogun (b. 1182)   

1390  Death of John fitzalan: 2nd baron arundel, english soldier (b. 1364)   

1433  Johan i: King of portugal (1383-1433),   

1573  Saitō tatsuoki: Japanese warlord (b. 1548)   

1587  Death of Gugliemo gonzaga: Composer,   

1652  Death of Abraham elsevier: Book publisher/publisher,