Historical Events In June - 14

1760  Candido Jose Ruano, composer on this day in history.  

1763  Johannes Simon Mayr, composer on June - 14.  

1769  Dominique Della-Maria, composer on this day in history.  

1775  On this day in history the U.S. Army is founded.  

1775  US Army founded on June - 14.  

1777  Continental Congress adopts Stars & Stripes replacing Grand Union flag on June - 14.  

1777  On June - 14 the Continental Congress, convening in Philadelphia, adopts the Stars and Stripes as the national flag.  

1789  On June - 14 capt William Blighs reaches Timor  

1789  On June - 14 johann Wilhelm Hertel, composer, dies at 61  

1800  Battle of Marengo (Alessandria): Bonaparte vs Austria on June - 14.  

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

1805  On this day in history 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 on June - 14.  

1811  On this day in history harriet Beecher Stowe, author (Uncle Tom's Cabin)  

1820  John Bartlett, US, editor (compiled Familiar Quotations) on this day in history.  

1821  On this day in history 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  On this day in history 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 this day in history.  

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

1834  Hardhat diving suit patented by Leonard Norcross, Dixfield, Maine on this day in history.  

1834  Sandpaper patented by Isaac Fischer Jr, Springfield, Vermont on June - 14.  

1835  On this day in history nikolay Rubinstein, composer  

1836  Thomas Wilberforce Egan, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers) on this day in history.  

1839  On June - 14 1st Henley Regatta held  

1841  The first Canadian parliament opens in Kingston, Ontario on June - 14.  

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

1844  On this day in history edouard Naville, Swiss egyptologist  

1846  On this day in history california (Bear Flag) Republic proclaimed in Sonoma  

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 this day in history.  

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

1850  Fire destroys part of SF on June - 14.  

1854  Frederik Rung, composer on this day in history.  

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1479  On June - 14 birth of giglio Gregorio Giraldi, Italian poet (d. 1552)  

1529  On June - 14 birth of ferdinand, archduke (Austria)/mayor (Bohemia)  

1657  On this day in history birth of cornelis Cruys, [Niels Olsen Creutz], Norwegian/Dutch admiral  

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 this day in history birth of charles-Augustin de Coulomb, physicist (formulated Coulomb's Law)  

1760  On June - 14 birth of candido Jose Ruano, composer  

1763  Johannes Simon Mayr, composer was born on June - 14.  

1144  On June - 14 aboe 'l-Kasim Mahmoed ibn Omar al-Zapowersjari, theologist, dies at 69  

1161  On this day in history death of emperor Qinzong of China (b. 1100)  

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

1381  On this day in history death of simon Sudbury, Archbishop of Canterbury  

1497  On June - 14 death of giovanni Borgia, Duke of Borgia (b. 1474)  

1544  Death of Antoine, Duke of Lorraine (b. 1489) on June - 14.  

1548  Death of Carpentras, French composer on this day in history.  

1594  On this day in history orlandus Lassus, composer (Prophet sybillarum), dies at about 61