Page 2: Historical Events In December - 14

1774  On this day in history mass militiamen successfully attacked arsenal of Ft William & Mary   

1777  On December - 14 juan N Gallego, Spanish poet/interpreter (El dos the mayo)   

1779  On December - 14 mariano Rodriguiz de Ledesma, composer   

1780  On this day in history karl Robert von Nesselrode, Germ/Russian minister of Foreign Affairs   

1782  On December - 14 charleston, SC evacuated by British   

1783  Johann Christoph Kienlen, composer on this day in history.   

1788  Carl Phillip Emanuel Bach, German composer, dies at 74 on December - 14.   

1789  On December - 14 maria Agata Szymanowska, composer   

1793  On December - 14 first state road authorized, Frankfort, Ky to Cincinnati   

1793  On December - 14 1st state road authorized, Frankfort, Ky to Cincinnati   

1798  David Wilkinson of Rhode Island patents a nut and bolt machine on December - 14.   

1798  David Wilkinson of Rhode Island patents a nut & bolt machine on this day in history.   

1799  George Washington, the American revolutionary leader and first president of the United States, dies of acute laryngitis at his estate in Mount Vernon, Virginia on December - 14.   

1799  On this day in history george Washington, 1st president USA (1789-97), dies at 66   

1812  On this day in history charles J Canning, English earl/1st viceroy of British-Indies   

1819  On December - 14 alabama admitted to the Union as 22nd state   

1819  On this day in history alabama admitted to Union as 22nd state   

1823  Vincenzo Cuoco, Italian historian (Naple revolution 1799), dies at 53 on this day in history.   

1825  On December - 14 decembrist uprising in Russia against Tsar Nicholas I begins   

1829  John Mercer Langston, 1st black to hold US political office on December - 14.   

1829  On December - 14 luigi Marchesi, composer, dies at 74   

1830  Allen Thomas, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1907 on December - 14.   

1832  On this day in history daniel Harris Reynolds, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1902   

1836  The Toledo War unofficially ends on December - 14.   

1837  William Wells, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1892 on this day in history.   

1849  First chamber music group in US gives their first concert (Boston) on December - 14.   

1849  1st chamber music group in US gives their 1st concert (Boston) on this day in history.   

1849  Conradin Kreutzer, composer, dies at 69 on December - 14.   

1853  On this day in history salvador Diaz Miron, Mexican poet (Los Cien Mejores Poemas)   

1861  On December - 14 prince Albert, husband of England's Queen Victoria, dies in London.   

1861  Albert, prince consort of Engld/husband of Queen Victoria, dies at 42 on December - 14.   

1862  On this day in history alexander V Amfiteatrov, Russian/French/Italian writer [OS]   

1862  On December - 14 george Dashiell Bayard, Union brig general, dies at 27   

1863  Battle of Bean's Station-Confederacy repulses Union in Tennessee on December - 14.   

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1009  On this day in history birth of emperor Go-Suzaku of Japan (d. 1045)   

1363  On this day in history birth of john Van [Jean C] Gerson, French theologist   

1503  On this day in history birth of nostradamus, [Michel de Nostre-Dam], French astrologist/prophet   

1546  Tycho Brahe, Knudstrup Denmark, astronomer (Golden nose) was born on December - 14.   

1553  Henri IV the Bourbon, king of Navarra (Henri III)/France was born on this day in history.   

1625  Barthélemy d'Herbelot de Molainville, French orientalist (d. 1695) was born on December - 14.   

1631  On this day in history birth of anne Conway, Viscountess Conway, English philosopher (d. 1679)   

1640  (baptism date) was born on this day in history.   

0872  Adrian II, Italian Pope (867-72)/last married pope, dies at about 80 on December - 14.   

1077  On this day in history agnes of Poitou, German empress/wife of emperor Henry III, dies   

1136  On December - 14 death of harald IV, "Gylle Krist", king of Norway, murdered   

1417  On December - 14 death of john Oldcastle, Lord Cobham, English nobleman, hanged & burned   

1460  On December - 14 death of guarino da Verona (b. 1370)   

1476  On this day in history death of vlad III the Impaler (b. 1431)   

1510  On this day in history death of friedrich of Saxony (b. 1473)   

1542  James, king of Scotland (1513-42), dies at 30 on December - 14.