Historical Events In June - 14

1760  On this day in history candido Jose Ruano, composer   

1763  On this day in history johannes Simon Mayr, composer   

1769  Dominique Della-Maria, composer on June - 14.   

1775  On June - 14 the U.S. Army is founded.   

1775  On this day in history uS Army founded   

1777  Continental Congress adopts Stars & Stripes replacing Grand Union flag on this day in history.   

1777  On this day in history the Continental Congress, convening in Philadelphia, adopts the Stars and Stripes as the national flag.   

1789  Capt William Blighs reaches Timor on this day in history.   

1789  Johann Wilhelm Hertel, composer, dies at 61 on June - 14.   

1800  On June - 14 battle of Marengo (Alessandria): Bonaparte vs Austria   

1801  On this day in history benedict Arnold, Revolutionary War general, dies in London   

1805  Robert Anderson, Bvt Major General (Union Army), died in 1871 on this day in history.   

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 on this day in history.   

1811  Harriet Beecher Stowe, author (Uncle Tom's Cabin) on this day in history.   

1820  John Bartlett, US, editor (compiled Familiar Quotations) on June - 14.   

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 on this day in history.   

1821  On June - 14 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" on June - 14.   

1828  Charles Augustus, grand duke of Saxon-Weimar-Eisenach, dies on June - 14.   

1834  On June - 14 hardhat diving suit patented by Leonard Norcross, Dixfield, Maine   

1834  On June - 14 sandpaper patented by Isaac Fischer Jr, Springfield, Vermont   

1835  On this day in history nikolay Rubinstein, composer   

1836  Thomas Wilberforce Egan, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers) on June - 14.   

1839  On June - 14 1st Henley Regatta held   

1841  The first Canadian parliament opens in Kingston, Ontario on this day in history.   

1841  1st Canadian parliament opens in Kingston, Ontario on this day in history.   

1844  Edouard Naville, Swiss egyptologist on this day in history.   

1846  California (Bear Flag) Republic proclaimed in Sonoma on June - 14.   

1846  On this day in history u.S. settlers in Sonoma proclaim the Republic of California.   

1846  Belgian Liberal Party forms on June - 14.   

1847  Bunson invents a gas burner. Lab teachers celebrate worldwide on June - 14.   

1847  On this day in history robert von Bunsen invents the Bunsen burner   

1850  Fire destroys part of SF on June - 14.   

1854  On June - 14 frederik Rung, composer   

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1479  On this day in history birth of giglio Gregorio Giraldi, Italian poet (d. 1552)   

1529  Ferdinand, archduke (Austria)/mayor (Bohemia) was born on this day in history.   

1657  Cornelis Cruys, [Niels Olsen Creutz], Norwegian/Dutch admiral was born on this day in history.   

1691  Jan Francisci, composer was born on June - 14.   

1730  Antonio Maria Gasparo Giaccino Sacchini, composer [or Jul 23 1734] was born on June - 14.   

1736  On June - 14 birth of charles-Augustin de Coulomb, physicist (formulated Coulomb's Law)   

1760  On this day in history birth of candido Jose Ruano, composer   

1763  Johannes Simon Mayr, composer was born on this day in history.   

1144  Aboe 'l-Kasim Mahmoed ibn Omar al-Zapowersjari, theologist, dies at 69 on June - 14.   

1161  On June - 14 death of emperor Qinzong of China (b. 1100)   

1349  Gunther Van Schwarzburg, German anti-king 1349, dies at about 44 on June - 14.   

1381  Death of Simon Sudbury, Archbishop of Canterbury on June - 14.   

1497  Death of Giovanni Borgia, Duke of Borgia (b. 1474) on this day in history.   

1544  On this day in history death of antoine, Duke of Lorraine (b. 1489)   

1548  Death of Carpentras, French composer on June - 14.   

1594  Orlandus Lassus, composer (Prophet sybillarum), dies at about 61 on this day in history.