Page 3: Historical Events In August - 14

1842  Seminole War ends; Indians removed from Florida to Oklahoma   

1842  Henry Duff Trail, journalist/author   

1844  Henry Francis Cary, translator (Dante), dies   

1846  Henry David Thoreau jailed for tax resistance   

1848  Oregon Territory created   

1850  Earnest YY [Bachigaloupi] Tourniaire, actor (Kloris and Roses)   

1856  William Buckland, dean (Westminister)/geologist, dies.   

1858  George Combe, phrenologist, dies.   

1860  Ernest T Seton, naturalist/painter/author (Buffalo Wind-1938)   

1861  79th NY troops mutinies   

1861  Bion Joseph Arnold, electrical engineer/inventor   

1862  Lincoln receives inaugural group of blacks to confer with US president   

1862  Lincoln receives 1st group of blacks to confer with US president   

1863  inaugural Kanakas arrive in Brisbane for employment on cotton plantation   

1863  Colin Campbell, British officer (Cawnpore), dies at 70   

1864  -16] Confederate General Joe Wheeler besieges Dalton, Georgia.   

1867  John Galsworthy, English playwright and novelist is born.   

1867  John Galsworthy, England, author (Forsyte Saga-Nobel 1932)   

1867  Niccola Benvenuti, composer, dies at 84   

1868  Leone Sinigaglia, composer.   

1869  Edvard Armas Jornefelt, Vyborg Finland, composer (Berceuse)   

1870  David [James] Glasgow Farragut, admiral, dies.   

1873  "Forest and Stream" begins publishing   

1873  "Field and Stream" begins publishing.   

1875  Society of Regte Afrikaanders establishes in Paarl.   

1876  Prairie View State University forms   

1876  Alexander I Obrenovic, King of Serbia/Yugoslavia (1922-34).   

1878  Harald Kidde, Danish writer (Aage og Else)   

1880  Australia's inaugural soccer club, The Wanderers, plays its inaugural match, against Kings School, Parramatta, NSW   

1880  Construction of Cologne Cathedral completed   

1880  Construction of Cologne Cathedral completed (began in 1248)   

1882  Queen Victoria recieves Zulu chief Cetewayo.   

1883  Ernest E Just, biologist (pioneered cell division).   

1884  Arnoldus Pannevis, South African shipping agent/linguist, dies at 46.   

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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  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  Death of Saitō tatsuoki: Japanese warlord (b. 1548)   

1587  Death of Gugliemo gonzaga: Composer,   

1652  Death of Abraham elsevier: Book publisher/publisher,