Page 2: Historical Events In August - 29

1664  Adriaen Pieck/Gerrit de Ferry patent wooden firespout in Amsterdam.   

1686  Wilhelm Hieronymus Pachelbel, composer.   

1708  Haverhill, Mass destroyed by French and Indians   

1708  English troops occupy Menorca and Sardinia   

1712  Gregory King, English statistician (law of King), dies at 63.   

1738  Georg Reuter, composer, dies at 81   

1742  Edmond Hoyle published his "Short Treatise" on the card game whist   

1756  Prussian Emperor Frederick II attacks Saxony; beginning of the Seven Years War that will see the English capture Canada   

1756  England and France meet in war.   

1758  inaugural indian reservation established.   

1758  New Jersey Legislature forms 1st Indian reservation.   

1758  Gerard Van Wage, historian, dies at 75   

1769  Edmond Hoyle, games expert, dies (birth date unknown)   

1773  Raphael G Kiesewetter, Austria musicologist (Arab Music).   

1776  Americans withdraw from Manhattan to Westchester   

1780  Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, French painter (Valpincon Bather)   

1786  Shay's Rebellion in Springfield, Mass.   

1792  At least 900 die when the British warship Royal George sinks at Spithead while repairs are being carried out just below the waterline   

1792  English warship Royal George capsizes in Spithead; results in the deaths of 900.   

1793  Slaves in French colony of St Domingue (Haiti) freed   

1799  Pius VI, [Giovanni A Braschi], Italian Pope (1775-99), dies at 71.   

1808  Hermann Schulze-Delitzsch, German politician/reformer.   

1809  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Cambridge MA, physician/author (Old Ironsides)   

1810  Over 600 prostitutes counted in Lower Canada (must be the cold winters)   

1811  Henry Bergh, 1st president of SPCA   

1815  Anna Ella Carroll, US, civil war writer (Reconstruction)   

1821  Horace Coignet, composer, dies at 86   

1825  Portugal recognizes the Independence of Brazil   

1831  Michael Faraday demonstrates 1st electric transformer   

1842  Treay Of Nanking, ceeding Hong Kong to Britain   

1842  Gr Britain and China sign Treaty of Nanking, ends Opium war.   

1842  Alfred Shaw, cricketer (pioneering England Test bowler)   

1844  The inaugural white-indian lacrosse game in Montreal, Indians win   

1844  1st white-indian lacrosse game in Montreal, Indians win.   

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1387  Henry v: King of england (1413-22)/france (1416-19)   

1434  Janus pannonius: Hungarian poet/translator   

1476  Kano motonobu: Kyoto japan, co-founder (kano school of painting)   

1561  Bartholomeus pitiscus: German mathematician (trigonometry)   

1609  Sassoferrato: [giovanni b salvi], italian painter (madonna)   

1619  Jean-baptiste colbert: French minister of naval/baron   

1628  John granville: 1st earl of bath, english royalist statesman   

1632  John locke: England, empiricist philosopher; disproved substance   

0029  Death of John the baptist: Beheaded   

0886  Death of Basilius i: The macedonier, byzantine emperor (867-886),   

1093  Hugh i: Duke of burgundy (b. 1057)   

1123  King eystein i of norway: King eystein i of norway (b. ca. 1088)   

1395  Duke albert iii of austria: Duke albert iii of austria (b. 1349)   

1442  Death of John vi: Duke of brittany (b. 1389)   

1523  Death of Ulrich von hutten: German poet/humanist/patriot,   

1526  Death of Louis ii: King of hungary/bohemia,