Historical Events In August - 14
Saturday, 10 June 2023
1740 Pius VII, [Luigi B Chiaramonti], bishop of Imola/Pope (1800-23) on August - 14.
1742 Marie Allard, French ballerina (Auguste Vestris) on this day in history.
1743 Prussian army occupies Saksen, beginning 2nd Silezian War on this day in history.
1756 On this day in history french capture Fort Oswego, NY
1758 Battle at Zorndorf: Prussia beat Russia, 1000s killed on August - 14.
1758 Carle [Antoine CH] Vernet, French painter/lithographer on this day in history.
1762 English fleet occupies Havana on this day in history.
1763 On this day in history giovanni Battista Somis, composer, dies at 76
1765 On August - 14 mass colonists challenge British rule by an Elm (Liberty Tree)
1769 On August - 14 friedrich Ludwig Dulon, flautist/composer
1777 Hans Christian Oersted, Den, physicist/chemist (View of Chemical Law) on this day in history.
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 First Russian colony in Alaska is founded on Kodiak Island on this day in history.
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 Sweden & Russia sign Peace of Verela on August - 14.
1794 George Colman, the Elder, playwright, dies on August - 14.
1802 On August - 14 letitia Elizabeth Landon, England, poet (Heath's Book of Beauty)
1810 Samuel Sebastian Wesley, composer on this day in history.
1813 British warship Pelican attacks and captures US war brigantine Argus on August - 14.
1813 British warship Pelican attacks & captures US war brigantine Argus on this day in history.
1814 On August - 14 henry Hayes Lockwood, Brig General (Union volunteers), died in 1899
1816 Great Britain annexes Tristan da Cunha on August - 14.
1820 On August - 14 1st US eye hospital, the NY Eye Infirmary, opens in NYC
1821 On August - 14 clement Hoffman "Rock" Stevens, Brig General (Confederate Army)
1823 Karel Miry, composer on this day in history.
1824 On August - 14 general Lafayette returns to US
1824 William Terry, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1888 on August - 14.
1825 Dutch King Willem I throws foreign students out on August - 14.
1833 On August - 14 luigi Cagnola, architect, dies
1834 Friedrich Christian Ruppe, composer, dies at 63 on August - 14.
1836 On August - 14 walter Besant, writer/philanthropist (Rebel Queen)
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