Page 3: Historical Events In August - 15

1807  On August - 15 johann N Tetens, German/Danish philosopher/mathematician, dies at 70   

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 this day in history wilhelm Rust, composer   

1823  On this day in history orris Sanford Ferry, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers)   

1824  On this day in history freed American slaves forms country of Liberia   

1829  Eduard de Hartog, composer on August - 15.   

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

1832  On this day in history gregory XVI encyclical On liberalism & religious indifferentism   

1834  On this day in history 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 August - 15.   

1848  On this day in history m Waldo Hanchett patents dental chair   

1848  On August - 15 timothy Olmstead, composer, dies at 88   

1851  [Georgette A] Helena Amelung, Dutch actress (Scapegoat) on this day in history.   

1852  Johan Gadolin, Finnish chemist (discovered yttrium), dies at 92 on August - 15.   

1853  On this day in history giovanni Battista Polledro, composer, dies at 72   

1856  J Keir Hardie, 1st Labour representative in British Parliament on August - 15.   

1858  On August - 15 regular mail to the Pacific coast begins   

1858  Regular mail to Pacific coast begins on this day in history.   

1860  On August - 15 florence Kling DeWolfe Harding, 1st lady (1921-23)   

1861  On August - 15 lincoln directs reinforcements to be sent to MO   

1863  On this day in history submarine "HL Hunley" arrives in Charleston on railroad cars   

1864  Off New England coast, CSS Tallahassee captures 6 yankee schooners on August - 15.   

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

1865  On this day in history johan[nes] B Schepers, Frisian writer (Braga)   

1867  2nd Reform Bill extends suffrage in England on August - 15.   

1869  The Meiji government in Japan establishes six new ministries, including one for Shinto on August - 15.   

1870  Transcontinental Railway actually completed on August - 15.   

1870  Transcontinental Railway actually completed in Colorado on this day in history.   

1872  Harold Fraser-Simson, composer on this day in history.   

1874  On this day in history joseph Klausner, Polish/Israeli new testament expert   

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 this day in history.   

1575  On August - 15 birth of bartol KaÅ¡ić, Croatian writer and linguist (d. 1650)   

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

1619  Hubertus Quellinus, [Quellien], Flemish cartoonist/copper plate was born on August - 15.   

1688  Frederick-William I, king of Prussia (1713-1740) was born on this day in history.   

1702  On August - 15 birth of francesco Zuccarelli, Italian rococo painter/etcher   

0069  On August - 15 death of servius Sulpicius Galba, 6th emperor of Rome (68-69), murdered   

0423  Flavius Honorius, emperor East Roman Republic (395-423), dies on August - 15.   

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

1038  On August - 15 stefanus I, [Arpad], 1st king of Hungary, dies   

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 August - 15.   

1118  On August - 15 alexius I Comnenus, Emperor of Byzantium (1081-1118), dies   

1196  On August - 15 death of conrad II, Duke of Swabia (b. 1173)