Page 3: Historical Events In August - 15
Sunday, 15 June 2025
1807 Johann N Tetens, German/Danish philosopher/mathematician, dies at 70 on this day in history.
1808 A British mission to Japan arrives but the Tokugawa shogun Ienari rejects the emissaries on this day in history.
1822 Census shows Upper Canada has 120,000 inhabitants, Lower Canada 500,000 on this day in history.
1822 On August - 15 wilhelm Rust, composer
1823 On August - 15 orris Sanford Ferry, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers)
1824 Freed American slaves forms country of Liberia on August - 15.
1829 On August - 15 eduard de Hartog, composer
1832 On this day in history gregory XVI encyclical On liberalism and religious indifferentism
1832 Gregory XVI encyclical On liberalism & religious indifferentism on August - 15.
1834 On August - 15 south Australia Act is passed by Britain's Parliament, allowing for establishment of colony there.
1839 On this day in history hugh Archibald Clarke, composer
1843 National black convention meets (Buffalo NY) on August - 15.
1845 Walter Crane, England, painter/illustrator (Beauty & Beast) on this day in history.
1848 On August - 15 m Waldo Hanchett patents dental chair
1848 Timothy Olmstead, composer, dies at 88 on August - 15.
1851 On this day in history [Georgette A] Helena Amelung, Dutch actress (Scapegoat)
1852 Johan Gadolin, Finnish chemist (discovered yttrium), dies at 92 on August - 15.
1853 Giovanni Battista Polledro, composer, dies at 72 on August - 15.
1856 On August - 15 j Keir Hardie, 1st Labour representative in British Parliament
1858 Regular mail to the Pacific coast begins on August - 15.
1858 On August - 15 regular mail to Pacific coast begins
1860 Florence Kling DeWolfe Harding, 1st lady (1921-23) on August - 15.
1861 On August - 15 lincoln directs reinforcements to be sent to MO
1863 On August - 15 submarine "HL Hunley" arrives in Charleston on railroad cars
1864 On this day in history off New England coast, CSS Tallahassee captures 6 yankee schooners
1864 Daniel Phineas Woodbury, US engineer/Union general-major, dies on August - 15.
1865 On August - 15 johan[nes] B Schepers, Frisian writer (Braga)
1867 2nd Reform Bill extends suffrage in England on August - 15.
1869 On August - 15 the Meiji government in Japan establishes six new ministries, including one for Shinto.
1870 On this day in history transcontinental Railway actually completed
1870 Transcontinental Railway actually completed in Colorado on August - 15.
1872 On August - 15 harold Fraser-Simson, composer
1874 Joseph Klausner, Polish/Israeli new testament expert on August - 15.
1875 On this day in history samuel Coleridge-Taylor, London, composer (Hiawatha's Wedding Feast)
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