Page 3: Historical Events In August - 15

1807  Johann N Tetens, German/Danish philosopher/mathematician, dies at 70 on August - 15.   

1808  On this day in history a British mission to Japan arrives but the Tokugawa shogun Ienari rejects the emissaries   

1822  On August - 15 census shows Upper Canada has 120,000 inhabitants, Lower Canada 500,000.   

1822  On this day in history wilhelm Rust, composer   

1823  On this day in history orris Sanford Ferry, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers)   

1824  Freed American slaves forms country of Liberia on August - 15.   

1829  Eduard de Hartog, composer on this day in history.   

1832  Gregory XVI encyclical On liberalism and religious indifferentism on this day in history.   

1832  On this day in history gregory XVI encyclical On liberalism & religious indifferentism   

1834  South Australia Act is passed by Britain's Parliament, allowing for establishment of colony there on this day in history.   

1839  Hugh Archibald Clarke, composer on this day in history.   

1843  On this day in history national black convention meets (Buffalo NY)   

1845  On this day in history walter Crane, England, painter/illustrator (Beauty & Beast)   

1848  M Waldo Hanchett patents dental chair on this day in history.   

1848  On this day in history timothy Olmstead, composer, dies at 88   

1851  [Georgette A] Helena Amelung, Dutch actress (Scapegoat) on August - 15.   

1852  On August - 15 johan Gadolin, Finnish chemist (discovered yttrium), dies at 92   

1853  On August - 15 giovanni Battista Polledro, composer, dies at 72   

1856  J Keir Hardie, 1st Labour representative in British Parliament on this day in history.   

1858  On this day in history regular mail to the Pacific coast begins   

1858  On August - 15 regular mail to Pacific coast begins   

1860  On this day in history florence Kling DeWolfe Harding, 1st lady (1921-23)   

1861  Lincoln directs reinforcements to be sent to MO on this day in history.   

1863  On August - 15 submarine "HL Hunley" arrives in Charleston on railroad cars   

1864  On this day in history off New England coast, CSS Tallahassee captures 6 yankee schooners   

1864  On this day in history daniel Phineas Woodbury, US engineer/Union general-major, dies   

1865  On this day in history johan[nes] B Schepers, Frisian writer (Braga)   

1867  2nd Reform Bill extends suffrage in England on August - 15.   

1869  The Meiji government in Japan establishes six new ministries, including one for Shinto on August - 15.   

1870  Transcontinental Railway actually completed on August - 15.   

1870  On this day in history transcontinental Railway actually completed in Colorado   

1872  Harold Fraser-Simson, composer on this day in history.   

1874  On August - 15 joseph Klausner, Polish/Israeli new testament expert   

1875  On August - 15 samuel Coleridge-Taylor, London, composer (Hiawatha's Wedding Feast)   

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1171  On this day in history birth of king Alfonso IX of Leon (d. 1230)   

1195  On August - 15 birth of anthony of Padua, Portuguese saint (d. 1231)   

1432  On August - 15 birth of luigi Pulci, Italy, poet (Morgante)   

1575  On August - 15 birth of bartol KaÅ¡ić, Croatian writer and linguist (d. 1650)   

1613  On this day in history birth of gilles Ménage, French scholar (d. 1692)   

1619  On August - 15 birth of hubertus Quellinus, [Quellien], Flemish cartoonist/copper plate   

1688  On August - 15 birth of frederick-William I, king of Prussia (1713-1740)   

1702  On this day in history birth of francesco Zuccarelli, Italian rococo painter/etcher   

0069  Death of Servius Sulpicius Galba, 6th emperor of Rome (68-69), murdered on August - 15.   

0423  On August - 15 flavius Honorius, emperor East Roman Republic (395-423), dies   

0778  On August - 15 death of roland, Frankish commander   

1038  On August - 15 stefanus I, [Arpad], 1st king of Hungary, dies   

1040  Death of King Duncan I of Scotland on this day in history.   

1057  On August - 15 death of macbeth, King of Scotland, slain by son of King Duncan   

1118  Alexius I Comnenus, Emperor of Byzantium (1081-1118), dies on this day in history.   

1196  On August - 15 death of conrad II, Duke of Swabia (b. 1173)