Page 2: Historical Events In December - 14

1774  Mass militiamen successfully attacked arsenal of Ft William and Mary   

1777  Juan N Gallego, Spanish poet/interpreter (El dos the mayo).   

1779  Mariano Rodriguiz de Ledesma, composer   

1780  Karl Robert von Nesselrode, Germ/Russian minister of Foreign Affairs.   

1782  Charleston, SC evacuated by British   

1783  Johann Christoph Kienlen, composer   

1788  Carl Phillip Emanuel Bach, German composer, dies at 74.   

1789  Maria Agata Szymanowska, composer.   

1793  inaugural state road authorized, Frankfort, Ky to Cincinnati   

1793  1st state road authorized, Frankfort, Ky to Cincinnati.   

1798  David Wilkinson of Rhode Island patents a nut and bolt machine.   

1799  George Washington, the American revolutionary leader and inaugural president of the United States, dies of acute laryngitis at his estate in Mount Vernon, Virginia   

1799  George Washington, 1st president USA (1789-97), dies at 66   

1812  Charles J Canning, English earl/1st viceroy of British-Indies.   

1819  Alabama admitted to the Union as 22nd state   

1819  Alabama admitted to Union as 22nd state.   

1823  Vincenzo Cuoco, Italian historian (Naple revolution 1799), dies at 53   

1825  Decembrist uprising in Russia against Tsar Nicholas I begins.   

1829  John Mercer Langston, 1st black to hold US political office   

1829  Luigi Marchesi, composer, dies at 74.   

1830  Allen Thomas, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1907.   

1832  Daniel Harris Reynolds, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1902.   

1836  The Toledo War unofficially ends   

1837  William Wells, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1892.   

1849  inaugural chamber music group in US gives their inaugural concert (Boston).   

1849  1st chamber music group in US gives their 1st concert (Boston).   

1849  Conradin Kreutzer, composer, dies at 69.   

1853  Salvador Diaz Miron, Mexican poet (Los Cien Mejores Poemas)   

1861  Prince Albert, husband of England's Queen Victoria, dies in London.   

1861  Albert, prince consort of Engld/husband of Queen Victoria, dies at 42   

1862  Alexander V Amfiteatrov, Russian/French/Italian writer [OS]   

1862  George Dashiell Bayard, Union brig general, dies at 27.   

1863  Battle of Bean's Station-Confederacy repulses Union in Tennessee   

1863  Battle of Bean's Station-Confederacy repulses Union in Tenn.   

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1009  Emperor Go-Suzaku of Japan (d. 1045) was born on December - 14.   

1363  John Van [Jean C] Gerson, French theologist was born on December - 14.   

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

1546  On December - 14 birth of tycho Brahe, Knudstrup Denmark, astronomer (Golden nose)   

1553  Henri IV the Bourbon, king of Navarra (Henri III)/France was born on December - 14.   

1625  On December - 14 birth of barthélemy d'Herbelot de Molainville, French orientalist (d. 1695)   

1631  On December - 14 birth of anne Conway, Viscountess Conway, English philosopher (d. 1679)   

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

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

1077  On December - 14 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 this day in history death of john Oldcastle, Lord Cobham, English nobleman, hanged & burned   

1460  Death of Guarino da Verona (b. 1370) on this day in history.   

1476  Death of Vlad III the Impaler (b. 1431) on this day in history.   

1510  On December - 14 death of friedrich of Saxony (b. 1473)   

1542  James, king of Scotland (1513-42), dies at 30 on this day in history.