Page 3: Historical Events In August - 15

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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1171  On this day in history birth of king Alfonso IX of Leon (d. 1230)   

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

1619  On this day in history birth of hubertus Quellinus, [Quellien], Flemish cartoonist/copper plate   

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 this day in history.   

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

0778  On August - 15 death of roland, Frankish commander   

1038  On this day in history stefanus I, [Arpad], 1st king of Hungary, dies   

1040  On this day in history death of king Duncan I of Scotland   

1057  Death of Macbeth, King of Scotland, slain by son of King Duncan on August - 15.   

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

1196  On this day in history death of conrad II, Duke of Swabia (b. 1173)