Historical Events In August - 15

1807  Johann N Tetens, German/Danish philosopher/mathematician, dies at 70 on this day in history.  

1808  On this day in history a British mission to Japan arrives but the Tokugawa shogun Ienari rejects the emissaries  

1822  On August - 15 census shows Upper Canada has 120,000 inhabitants, Lower Canada 500,000.  

1822  Wilhelm Rust, composer on August - 15.  

1823  On August - 15 orris Sanford Ferry, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers)  

1824  Freed American slaves forms country of Liberia on this day in history.  

1829  On this day in history eduard de Hartog, composer  

1832  Gregory XVI encyclical On liberalism and religious indifferentism on August - 15.  

1832  Gregory XVI encyclical On liberalism & religious indifferentism on August - 15.  

1834  On this day in history south Australia Act is passed by Britain's Parliament, allowing for establishment of colony there.  

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1839  On this day in history hugh Archibald Clarke, composer  

1843  National black convention meets (Buffalo NY) on this day in history.  

1845  On this day in history walter Crane, England, painter/illustrator (Beauty & Beast)  

1848  On August - 15 m Waldo Hanchett patents dental chair  

1848  On this day in history timothy Olmstead, composer, dies at 88  

1851  [Georgette A] Helena Amelung, Dutch actress (Scapegoat) on August - 15.  

1852  On this day in history johan Gadolin, Finnish chemist (discovered yttrium), dies at 92  

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  On this day in history regular mail to the Pacific coast begins  

1858  On this day in history regular mail to Pacific coast begins  

1860  On this day in history florence Kling DeWolfe Harding, 1st lady (1921-23)  

1861  Lincoln directs reinforcements to be sent to MO on August - 15.  

1863  Submarine "HL Hunley" arrives in Charleston on railroad cars on August - 15.  

1864  Off New England coast, CSS Tallahassee captures 6 yankee schooners on this day in history.  

1864  On August - 15 daniel Phineas Woodbury, US engineer/Union general-major, dies  

1865  On August - 15 johan[nes] B Schepers, Frisian writer (Braga)  

1867  2nd Reform Bill extends suffrage in England on this day in history.  

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  Harold Fraser-Simson, composer on August - 15.  

1874  Joseph Klausner, Polish/Israeli new testament expert on this day in history.  

1875  On this day in history samuel Coleridge-Taylor, London, composer (Hiawatha's Wedding Feast)  

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1171  King Alfonso IX of Leon (d. 1230) was born on August - 15.  

1195  Anthony of Padua, Portuguese saint (d. 1231) was born on this day in history.  

1432  Luigi Pulci, Italy, poet (Morgante) was born on August - 15.  

1575  Bartol Kašić, Croatian writer and linguist (d. 1650) was born on August - 15.  

1613  Gilles Ménage, French scholar (d. 1692) was born on August - 15.  

1619  On August - 15 birth of hubertus Quellinus, [Quellien], Flemish cartoonist/copper plate  

1688  On August - 15 birth of frederick-William I, king of Prussia (1713-1740)  

1702  Francesco Zuccarelli, Italian rococo painter/etcher was born on this day in history.  

0069  On this day in history death of servius Sulpicius Galba, 6th emperor of Rome (68-69), murdered  

0423  Flavius Honorius, emperor East Roman Republic (395-423), dies on this day in history.  

0778  On this day in history death of roland, Frankish commander  

1038  Stefanus I, [Arpad], 1st king of Hungary, dies on this day in history.  

1040  Death of King Duncan I of Scotland on this day in history.  

1057  Death of Macbeth, King of Scotland, slain by son of King Duncan on this day in history.  

1118  Alexius I Comnenus, Emperor of Byzantium (1081-1118), dies on August - 15.  

1196  Death of Conrad II, Duke of Swabia (b. 1173) on this day in history.