Page 2: Historical Events In August - 06

1664  Johann Christoph Schmidt, composer on August - 06.   

1665  On August - 06 jean-Baptiste Lully, composer   

1666  On August - 06 tsjerk H de Vries, fleet guardian, dies in Battle at 43   

1675  On August - 06 russian Czar Aleksei bans foreign hairs cut   

1686  On August - 06 paul Hainlein, composer, dies at 60   

1697  On this day in history charles VII, Holy Roman emperor (1742-45)   

1718  On this day in history jacob F Muller, [Sjako/Jaco], Germ/Neth crowd leader, beheaded at 28   

1726  Emperor Karel VI & tsarina Catharina the Great sign military treaty on this day in history.   

1727  Francois Valentijn, vicar/writer, dies at 61 on August - 06.   

1746  Christian VI, king of Denmark/Norway, dies on this day in history.   

1748  Bernhard Haltenberger, composer on August - 06.   

1774  Founder of the Shaker Movement, Mother Ann Lee, arrives in NY on August - 06.   

1775  Louis-Antoine the Bourbon, French duke of Angouleme/General of France on this day in history.   

1775  On August - 06 heinrich Nikolaus Gerber, composer, dies at 72   

1783  On August - 06 willem Bachiene, vicar/theologist/geography/astronomer, dies at 70   

1784  Karl Kohaut, composer, dies at 57 on this day in history.   

1787  On this day in history constitutional Convention in Phila begans debate   

1799  On this day in history joseph Friebert, composer, dies at 74   

1800  On August - 06 catherine Beecher, educator (championed higher education for women)   

1804  Justinus van der Brugghen, Dutch lawyer/minister of Justice (1856-58) on this day in history.   

1806  Holy Roman Empire ends on August - 06.   

1806  On August - 06 holy Roman empire officially ends   

1806  On this day in history holy Roman Empire ends; it was neither holy, Roman, nor an empire   

1809  On this day in history the birth of Alfred Tennyson, English poet   

1809  On this day in history alfred Lord Tennyson, poet laureate of England   

1811  Judah Philip Benjamin, Secy War/Secy State (Confederacy) [or Aug 11] on August - 06.   

1815  US flotilla ends piracy by Algiers, Tunis &Tripoli on this day in history.   

1815  US flotilla ends piracy by Algiers, Tunis & Tripoli on August - 06.   

1816  Karl Frieberth, composer, dies at 80 on this day in history.   

1819  Norwich University is founded in Vermont as the first private military school in the United States on this day in history.   

1819  Samuel Powhatan Carter, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers) on August - 06.   

1820  On August - 06 antonin Vranicky, composer, dies at 59   

1821  1st edition of "Courrier of Pays-Bas" newspaper published in Brussels on this day in history.   

1821  Antonio Bartolomeo Bruni, composer, dies at 64 on August - 06.   

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1180  On August - 06 birth of emperor Go-Toba of Japan (d. 1239)   

1504  On August - 06 birth of matthew "Nosey" Parker, archbishop of Canterbury   

1609  Richard Bennett, British Colonial Governor of Virginia (d. 1675) was born on August - 06.   

1619  Barbara Strozzi, composer was born on August - 06.   

1638  On this day in history birth of nicolas de Malebranche, French philosopher   

1644  On this day in history birth of francoise L de la Baume Le Blanc, French mistress of Louis XIV   

1651  On this day in history birth of francois Fenelon, France, writer (Playing for Time)   

1651  On this day in history birth of johann Michael Zacher, composer   

0258  On August - 06 death of sixtus II, bishop of Rome (257-58), beheaded   

0523  Hormisdas, Pope (514-23), dies on this day in history.   

0966  Death of Berengarius II, markgraaf of Ivrea/king of Italy (950-963) on this day in history.   

1162  Death of Ramon Berenguer IV, Count of Barcelona on August - 06.   

1195  On this day in history henry de Leeuw, duke of Saxon/Bayern, dies   

1221  On this day in history death of dominicus, Italian religious order founder (Dominicans)   

1272  Stefanus V, prince of Transylvania/king of Hungary (1270-72), dies on this day in history.   

1414  Death of King Ladislas of Naples (b. 1377) on this day in history.