Page 2: Historical Events In June - 14

1760  Candido Jose Ruano, composer   

1763  Johannes Simon Mayr, composer   

1769  Dominique Della-Maria, composer   

1775  The U.S. Army is founded.   

1775  US Army founded.   

1777  In this year, Continental Congress formally adopts Stars and Stripes replacing Grand Union flag.   

1777  In this year, The Continental Congress, convening in Philadelphia, formally adopts the Stars and Stripes as the national flag.   

1789  Capt William Blighs reaches Timor   

1789  Johann Wilhelm Hertel, composer, dies at 61.   

1800  Battle of Marengo (Alessandria): Bonaparte vs Austria.   

1801  Benedict Arnold, Revolutionary War general, dies in London   

1805  Robert Anderson, Bvt Major General (Union Army), died in 1871   

1807  Emperor Napoleon I's French Grande Armee defeats the Russian Army at the Battle of Friedland in Poland (modern Russian Kaliningrad Oblast) ending the War of the Fourth Coalition   

1811  Harriet Beecher Stowe, author (Uncle Tom's Cabin)   

1820  John Bartlett, US, editor (compiled Familiar Quotations)   

1821  Badi VII, king of Sennar, surrenders his throne and realm to Ismail Pasha, general of the Ottoman Empire, ending the existence of that Sudanese kingdom.   

1821  Jozef Lies, Flemish painter   

1822  Charles Babbage proposes a difference engine in a paper to the Royal Astronomical Society entitled "Note on the application of machinery to the computation of astronomical and mathematical tables".   

1828  Charles Augustus, grand duke of Saxon-Weimar-Eisenach, dies.   

1834  Hardhat diving suit patented by Leonard Norcross, Dixfield, Maine   

1834  Sandpaper patented by Isaac Fischer Jr, Springfield, Vermont   

1835  Nikolay Rubinstein, composer   

1836  Thomas Wilberforce Egan, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers)   

1839  1st Henley Regatta held   

1841  The inaugural Canadian parliament opens in Kingston, Ontario.   

1841  1st Canadian parliament opens in Kingston, Ontario.   

1844  Edouard Naville, Swiss egyptologist.   

1846  California (Bear Flag) Republic proclaimed in Sonoma   

1846  U.S. settlers in Sonoma proclaim the Republic of California.   

1846  Belgian Liberal Party forms.   

1847  Bunson invents a gas burner. Lab teachers celebrate worldwide   

1847  Robert von Bunsen invents the Bunsen burner.   

1850  Fire destroys part of SF   

1854  Frederik Rung, composer.   

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1479  Giglio gregorio giraldi: Italian poet   

1529  Ferdinand: Archduke (austria)/mayor (bohemia)   

1657  Cornelis cruys: [niels olsen creutz], norwegian/dutch admiral   

1691  Jan francisci: Composer   

1730  Antonio maria gasparo giaccino sacchini: Composer [or jul 23 1734]   

1736  Charles-augustin de coulomb: Physicist (formulated coulomb's law)   

1760  Candido jose ruano: Composer   

1763  Johannes simon mayr: Composer   

1144  Aboe 'l-kasim mahmoed ibn omar al-zapowersjari: Theologist,   

1161  Death of Emperor qinzong of china: Emperor qinzong of china (b. 1100)   

1349  Gunther van schwarzburg: German anti-king 1349,   

1381  Simon sudbury: Archbishop of canterbury   

1497  Giovanni borgia: Duke of borgia (b. 1474)   

1544  Death of Antoine: Duke of lorraine (b. 1489)   

1548  Death of Carpentras: French composer   

1594  Orlandus lassus: Composer (prophet sybillarum),