Historical Events In May - 12
Friday, 25 October 2024
1689 England & Netherlands form League of Augsburg on May - 12.
1695 English king Willem III departs to Netherlands on this day in history.
1700 On May - 12 luigi Vanvitelli, Italian architect
1701 Drenthe adopts Gregorian calendar (yesterday is 4/29/1701) on this day in history.
1733 Maria Theresa crowned queen of Bohemia in Prague on May - 12.
1737 Cornelis van Alkemade, historian, dies at 83 on this day in history.
1739 Jan Krtitel Vanhal, composer on May - 12.
1751 On this day in history gaetano Manna, composer
1754 Franz Anton Hoffmeister, composer on May - 12.
1776 On May - 12 turgot, French minister of Finance, resigns
1776 On May - 12 juan Bros y Bertomel, composer
1777 On May - 12 the first ice cream advertisement (Philip Lenzi-New York Gazette)
1777 On this day in history 1st ice cream advertisement (Philip Lenzi-NY Gazette)
1780 On this day in history charleston SC falls to the British (Revolutionary War)
1780 On May - 12 british troops occupy Charleston, South Carolina
1789 Society of St Tammany is formed by Revolutionary War soldiers on this day in history.
1789 Society of St Tammany is formed by Revolutionary War soldiers. It later becomes an infamous group of NYC political bosses on this day in history.
1790 [Johannes] Carsten Hauch, Danish writer on May - 12.
1792 Toilet that flushes itself at regular intervals is patented on this day in history.
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 On this day in history johann Hermann Kufferath, composer
1803 On May - 12 justus Freiherr von Liebig, German chemist (agricultural chemics)
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 May - 12.
1811 On this day in history louis-Charles-Joseph Rey, composer, dies at 52
1812 On this day in history edward Lear, England, landscape painter, (Complete Nonsense Book)
1813 Johann Czerski, German chaplin on this day in history.
1814 Robert Treat Paine, US judge (signed Decl of Ind), dies at 83 on this day in history.
1820 On May - 12 the birth of Florence Nightingale, English pioneer of nursing
1820 Florence Nightingale, Florence Italy, nurse (Crimean War) on May - 12.
1821 On this day in history the first big battle of the Greek War of Independence against the Turks occurs in Valtetsi.
1825 Elias Mann, composer, dies at 75 on May - 12.
1828 The birth of Dante Rossetti, English artist and poet on May - 12.
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