Page 2: Historical Events In August - 17

1787  Jews are granted permission in Budapest Hungary to pray in groups on this day in history.   

1788  Losantville, OH (now Cincinnati) founded on August - 17.   

1792  Jan Jachym Kopriva, composer, dies at 38 on August - 17.   

1795  Slave revolt at Knip plantation, Curacao on this day in history.   

1796  English beat Bataafs navy in Saldanha Bay on August - 17.   

1804  Barbara Hec, organized 1st methodist church in US, dies on August - 17.   

1807  Robert Fulton's steamboat Clermont begins 1st trip up Hudson River on this day in history.   

1808  On this day in history napoleon asks King Louis for Holland brigade towards Spain   

1811  Johannes H Scholten, Dutch theologist (Free Will) on August - 17.   

1812  On this day in history frigate President captures British schooner L'Adeline in North Atlantic   

1817  On this day in history joseph baron Kervyn de Lettenhove, Belgian Internal minister (1870-71)   

1819  On this day in history james Henry Van Alen, Brig General (Union volunteers), died in 1886   

1827  Dutch King Willem I/Pope Leo XII sign concord on this day in history.   

1828  George William Warren, composer on August - 17.   

1834  Charles Darwins reaches top of Campana Chile on this day in history.   

1834  Peter Benoit, Flemish composer/conductor (Leie/Rubens Cantata) on August - 17.   

1835  On August - 17 solymon Merrick patents wrench   

1836  On August - 17 british parliament accept registration of birth/marriage/death   

1839  Hubert Platt Main, composer on August - 17.   

1840  Wilfrid Scawen Blunt, England, writer (Irish Land League) on August - 17.   

1841  On this day in history luis NF Varela, Brazilian romantic poet   

1844  On this day in history menelik II, King of Ethiopia (1896-1913)   

1846  On August - 17 uS takes Los Angeles   

1846  US fleet officer Robert F Stockton annexes California on this day in history.   

1850  On this day in history jose de San Martin, liberator of Chile, dies.   

1850  On August - 17 jose Francisco de San Martin, South American revolutionary hero, dies   

1851  Henry Drummond, Scottish geologist/evangelist on this day in history.   

1856  Violet Paget, [Vernon Lee], British author (Satan the master) on this day in history.   

1858  1st bank in Hawaii opens on August - 17.   

1859  On August - 17 circus acrobat Blondin crosses Niagara Falls on a tightrope.   

1859  On this day in history 1st air mail (in a balloon) took off from Lafayette Ind   

1862  Confederate troops under Kirby Smith enter Kentucky on August - 17.   

1863  Federal batteries &ships bombard Fort Sumter, Charleston on August - 17.   

1863  Federal batteries & ships attacked Fort Sumter in SC on August - 17.   

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1473  On this day in history birth of richard, Duke of York (d. 1483?)   

1578  Francesco Albani, Italian painter (d. 1660) was born on August - 17.   

1586  Johann V Andreae, German vicar/writer (Christenburg) was born on this day in history.   

1601  On August - 17 birth of pierre de Fermat, mathematician who needed wider margins [or Aug 20]   

1629  King John III of Poland (d. 1696) was born on August - 17.   

1686  On this day in history birth of nicola Antonio Porpora, composer   

1720  On August - 17 birth of charles D J Eisen, French engraver/painter (Contes de La Fontaine)   

1753  Josef Dobrovský, Czech linguist (d. 1828) was born on August - 17.   

0754  On this day in history karloman, abbot of Monte cassino, dies at >39   

1153  On this day in history death of eustace IV of Boulogne, son of Stephen of England (b. 1130)   

1304  On this day in history death of emperor Go-Fukakusa of Japan (b. 1243)   

1464  Nikolaus von Cusa, German theologist/mathematician/philosopher, dies on August - 17.   

1510  Death of Edmund Dudley, English treasurer, beheaded on August - 17.   

1536  On this day in history death of pietersz, book publisher (Kersten Knight   

1553  Charles III, Duke of Savoy, dies on this day in history.   

1635  On this day in history francisco de Moncada, Spanish earl of Osuna, dies at 48