Page 2: Historical Events In May - 12

1689  England & Netherlands form League of Augsburg on this day in history.   

1695  English king Willem III departs to Netherlands on May - 12.   

1700  Luigi Vanvitelli, Italian architect on May - 12.   

1701  Drenthe adopts Gregorian calendar (yesterday is 4/29/1701) on this day in history.   

1733  On this day in history maria Theresa crowned queen of Bohemia in Prague   

1737  Cornelis van Alkemade, historian, dies at 83 on this day in history.   

1739  On this day in history jan Krtitel Vanhal, composer   

1751  Gaetano Manna, composer on this day in history.   

1754  Franz Anton Hoffmeister, composer on May - 12.   

1776  Turgot, French minister of Finance, resigns on this day in history.   

1776  On this day in history juan Bros y Bertomel, composer   

1777  On May - 12 the first ice cream advertisement (Philip Lenzi-New York Gazette)   

1777  1st ice cream advertisement (Philip Lenzi-NY Gazette) on this day in history.   

1780  Charleston SC falls to the British (Revolutionary War) on May - 12.   

1780  On this day in history british troops occupy Charleston, South Carolina   

1789  Society of St Tammany is formed by Revolutionary War soldiers on May - 12.   

1789  Society of St Tammany is formed by Revolutionary War soldiers. It later becomes an infamous group of NYC political bosses on May - 12.   

1790  [Johannes] Carsten Hauch, Danish writer on this day in history.   

1792  On this day in history toilet that flushes itself at regular intervals is patented   

1796  Johann P Uz, German poet (Theodicee), dies at 75 on this day in history.   

1797  First Coalition: Napoleon I of France conquers Venice on May - 12.   

1797  Johann Hermann Kufferath, composer on this day in history.   

1803  Justus Freiherr von Liebig, German chemist (agricultural chemics) on this day in history.   

1804  Robert Baldwin, (L) help establish govt in Canada (or 1904) on May - 12.   

1806  Amos Beebe Eaton, Bvt Major General (Union Army), died in 1877 on this day in history.   

1811  Louis-Charles-Joseph Rey, composer, dies at 52 on this day in history.   

1812  Edward Lear, England, landscape painter, (Complete Nonsense Book) on May - 12.   

1813  Johann Czerski, German chaplin on this day in history.   

1814  Robert Treat Paine, US judge (signed Decl of Ind), dies at 83 on May - 12.   

1820  On May - 12 the birth of Florence Nightingale, English pioneer of nursing   

1820  On May - 12 florence Nightingale, Florence Italy, nurse (Crimean War)   

1821  The first big battle of the Greek War of Independence against the Turks occurs in Valtetsi on May - 12.   

1825  On this day in history elias Mann, composer, dies at 75   

1828  The birth of Dante Rossetti, English artist and poet on this day in history.   

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1401  On May - 12 birth of emperor Shōkō (d. 1428)   

1496  On this day in history birth of gustav I of Sweden (d. 1560)   

1590  On May - 12 birth of cosimo II de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany (d. 1621)   

1622  Louis de Buade de Frontenac, Governor General of New France (d. 1698) was born on this day in history.   

1626  On May - 12 birth of louis Hennepin, Flemish missionary (d. 1705)   

1662  Jan F van Bloom, [Orizonte] Flemish painter, baptized was born on this day in history.   

1670  On this day in history birth of august II, the Strong One, King of Poland (355 children)   

1670  On this day in history birth of frederick Augustus I of Poland (d. 1733)   

0912  Leo VI Sophos, Byzantine Emperor (886-912), dies at 45 on May - 12.   

1003  Gerbert, French scholar, dies in Rome on May - 12.   

1012  On May - 12 sergius IV, [Pietro Crescentii], Italian Pope (1009-12), dies   

1382  Johanna I, Queen of Naples/Provence, dies on May - 12.   

1465  On this day in history death of thomas Palaeologus, Despot of the Despotate of Morea   

1634  George Chapman, English dramatist/interpreter, dies on this day in history.   

1641  On this day in history death of thomas Wentworth, English viceroy of Ireland, beheaded at 48   

1649  Death of Isaac Doreslaer, English lawyer/diplomat, murdered on this day in history.