Historical Events In August - 30
Friday, 09 June 2023
1776 On August - 30 uS army evacuates Long Island/falls back to Manhattan, NYC
1781 On this day in history french fleet of 24 ships under Comte de Grasse defeat British under Admiral Graves at battle of Chesapeake Capes in Revolutionary War
1791 The HMS Pandora sank after running aground on a reef the previous day on this day in history.
1797 On August - 30 the birth of Mary Shelley, English novelist and creator of 'Frankenstein'
1797 Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, London England, author (Frankenstein) on this day in history.
1799 On August - 30 bataafse fleet surrender to English
1800 Gabriel Prosser leads a slave rebellion in Richmond, Virginia on this day in history.
1804 Aleksandr I Polezjajev, Russian poet (Sasjka) [OS] on August - 30.
1805 Michael Sars, Norwegian zoologist on August - 30.
1808 Joseph Anton Bauer, composer, dies at 83 on August - 30.
1809 Adolf Friedrich Hesse, composer on August - 30.
1809 Ignacy Potocki, Polish Foreign Minister (constitution), dies on August - 30.
1811 Thomas Gautier, writer on August - 30.
1813 Battle of Kulm: French forces defeated by Austrian-Prussian-Russian alliance on August - 30.
1813 On August - 30 princess Mathilde of Bavaria d. 1862
1820 James Wilson, Strathaven Radical, hung and beheaded at Glasgow Green for his part in the 1820 Rising. A crowd of 20,000 sympathetic to Wilson, witnessed the event. James Wilson, on his way to the scaffold, remarked to the hangman Thomas Moore - "Did ye evir see sic a crowd, Tammas?" on August - 30.
1820 On August - 30 george Frederick Root, composer
1826 On this day in history theodor Zwetler, composer, dies at 67
1831 Charles Darwin refuses to travel with HMS Beagle on this day in history.
1835 Melbourne, Australia is founded on August - 30.
1836 The city of Houston is founded by Augustus Chapman Allen and John Kirby Allen on this day in history.
1837 Ellen Lewis Herndon Arthur, 1st lady (1881-85) on this day in history.
1842 Victor Alphonse Duvernoy, composer on this day in history.
1843 The first black participation in national political convention (Liberty Party) on August - 30.
1843 On this day in history 1st blacks participation in natl political convention (Liberty Party)
1844 On August - 30 friedrich Ratzel, German social-geographer (Lebensraum)
1844 On this day in history francis Baily, English astronomer/mathematician (Baily's Beads), dies
1849 On this day in history joseph Mallaby Dent, Dutch publisher
1850 Honolulu, Hawaii becomes a city on August - 30.
1852 Jacobus Henricus van 't Hoff, Neth, physical chemist (Nobel 1901) on this day in history.
1854 On this day in history john Fremont issues proclamation freeing slaves of Missouri rebels
1860 On this day in history 1st British tram opens (Birkenhead)
1862 On this day in history battle of 2nd Manassas-Pope defeated by Lee-Battle of Richmond, KY
1862 On this day in history battle of Altamont-Confederates beat Union forces in Tennessee
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