Page 3: Historical Events In August - 15

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

1808  A British mission to Japan arrives but the Tokugawa shogun Ienari rejects the emissaries on this day in history.   

1822  Census shows Upper Canada has 120,000 inhabitants, Lower Canada 500,000 on August - 15.   

1822  On this day in history wilhelm Rust, composer   

1823  Orris Sanford Ferry, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers) on this day in history.   

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

1829  On August - 15 eduard de Hartog, composer   

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 August - 15.   

1839  Hugh Archibald Clarke, composer on August - 15.   

1843  National black convention meets (Buffalo NY) on this day in history.   

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  Timothy Olmstead, composer, dies at 88 on August - 15.   

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

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 August - 15.   

1858  On August - 15 regular mail to the Pacific coast begins   

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

1860  Florence Kling DeWolfe Harding, 1st lady (1921-23) on this day in history.   

1861  Lincoln directs reinforcements to be sent to MO on August - 15.   

1863  On this day in history 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  Daniel Phineas Woodbury, US engineer/Union general-major, dies on this day in history.   

1865  On August - 15 johan[nes] B Schepers, Frisian writer (Braga)   

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

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

1870  On August - 15 transcontinental Railway actually completed   

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

1872  On this day in history harold Fraser-Simson, composer   

1874  Joseph Klausner, Polish/Israeli new testament expert on August - 15.   

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  Luigi Pulci, Italy, poet (Morgante) was born on this day in history.   

1575  Bartol KaÅ¡ić, Croatian writer and linguist (d. 1650) was born on this day in history.   

1613  On August - 15 birth of gilles Ménage, French scholar (d. 1692)   

1619  Hubertus Quellinus, [Quellien], Flemish cartoonist/copper plate was born on this day in history.   

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

1702  On August - 15 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  Death of Roland, Frankish commander on August - 15.   

1038  On this day in history stefanus I, [Arpad], 1st king of Hungary, dies   

1040  Death of King Duncan I of Scotland on August - 15.   

1057  Death of Macbeth, King of Scotland, slain by son of King Duncan on this day in history.   

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

1196  Death of Conrad II, Duke of Swabia (b. 1173) on August - 15.