Page 3: Historical Events In August - 15

1807  On this day in history 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 August - 15.   

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

1824  On August - 15 freed American slaves forms country of Liberia   

1829  Eduard de Hartog, composer on August - 15.   

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

1832  On August - 15 gregory XVI encyclical On liberalism & religious indifferentism   

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 this day in history.   

1845  Walter Crane, England, painter/illustrator (Beauty & Beast) on this day in history.   

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

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

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

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  J Keir Hardie, 1st Labour representative in British Parliament on this day in history.   

1858  Regular mail to the Pacific coast begins on August - 15.   

1858  Regular mail to Pacific coast begins on August - 15.   

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

1861  On this day in history lincoln directs reinforcements to be sent to MO   

1863  Submarine "HL Hunley" arrives in Charleston on railroad cars on this day in history.   

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 this day in history.   

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  On August - 15 the Meiji government in Japan establishes six new ministries, including one for Shinto.   

1870  Transcontinental Railway actually completed on August - 15.   

1870  On August - 15 transcontinental Railway actually completed in Colorado   

1872  Harold Fraser-Simson, composer on August - 15.   

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

1875  Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, London, composer (Hiawatha's Wedding Feast) on August - 15.   

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1171  On August - 15 birth of king Alfonso IX of Leon (d. 1230)   

1195  On this day in history birth of anthony of Padua, Portuguese saint (d. 1231)   

1432  On August - 15 birth of luigi Pulci, Italy, poet (Morgante)   

1575  On this day in history birth of bartol KaÅ¡ić, Croatian writer and linguist (d. 1650)   

1613  On this day in history birth of gilles Ménage, French scholar (d. 1692)   

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

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

1702  Francesco Zuccarelli, Italian rococo painter/etcher was born on August - 15.   

0069  Death of Servius Sulpicius Galba, 6th emperor of Rome (68-69), murdered on August - 15.   

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

0778  Death of Roland, Frankish commander on this day in history.   

1038  On this day in history 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  Death of Conrad II, Duke of Swabia (b. 1173) on August - 15.