Historical Events In August - 15

1807  Johann N Tetens, German/Danish philosopher/mathematician, dies at 70 on August - 15.  

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

1822  Census shows Upper Canada has 120,000 inhabitants, Lower Canada 500,000 on August - 15.  

1822  Wilhelm Rust, composer on August - 15.  

1823  Orris Sanford Ferry, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers) on August - 15.  

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

1829  On August - 15 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 this day in history.  

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 August - 15 hugh Archibald Clarke, composer  

1843  On August - 15 national black convention meets (Buffalo NY)  

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

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  Johan Gadolin, Finnish chemist (discovered yttrium), dies at 92 on this day in history.  

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  On August - 15 regular mail to the Pacific coast begins  

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

1860  Florence Kling DeWolfe Harding, 1st lady (1921-23) on this day in history.  

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

1863  On this day in history 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  On August - 15 daniel Phineas Woodbury, US engineer/Union general-major, dies  

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

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

1869  On this day in history the Meiji government in Japan establishes six new ministries, including one for Shinto.  

1870  Transcontinental Railway actually completed on August - 15.  

1870  Transcontinental Railway actually completed in Colorado on August - 15.  

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

1874  On August - 15 joseph Klausner, Polish/Israeli new testament expert  

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

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

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 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 this day in history.  

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

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

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

0423  On August - 15 flavius Honorius, emperor East Roman Republic (395-423), dies  

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  Death of Conrad II, Duke of Swabia (b. 1173) on August - 15.