Page 2: Historical Events In August - 30

1776  On August - 30 uS army evacuates Long Island/falls back to Manhattan, NYC   

1781  On August - 30 french fleet of 24 ships under Comte de Grasse defeat British under Admiral Graves at battle of Chesapeake Capes in Revolutionary War   

1791  On August - 30 the HMS Pandora sank after running aground on a reef the previous day.   

1797  On this day in history the birth of Mary Shelley, English novelist and creator of 'Frankenstein'   

1797  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, London England, author (Frankenstein) on August - 30.   

1799  On August - 30 bataafse fleet surrender to English   

1800  On this day in history gabriel Prosser leads a slave rebellion in Richmond, Virginia   

1804  Aleksandr I Polezjajev, Russian poet (Sasjka) [OS] on August - 30.   

1805  Michael Sars, Norwegian zoologist on this day in history.   

1808  Joseph Anton Bauer, composer, dies at 83 on this day in history.   

1809  Adolf Friedrich Hesse, composer on this day in history.   

1809  On this day in history ignacy Potocki, Polish Foreign Minister (constitution), dies   

1811  On August - 30 thomas Gautier, writer   

1813  On August - 30 battle of Kulm: French forces defeated by Austrian-Prussian-Russian alliance.   

1813  Princess Mathilde of Bavaria d. 1862 on August - 30.   

1820  On August - 30 james Wilson, Strathaven Radical, hung and beheaded at Glasgow Green for his part in the 1820 Rising. A crowd of 20,000 sympathetic to Wilson, witnessed the event. James Wilson, on his way to the scaffold, remarked to the hangman Thomas Moore - "Did ye evir see sic a crowd, Tammas?"   

1820  On this day in history george Frederick Root, composer   

1826  On August - 30 theodor Zwetler, composer, dies at 67   

1831  On August - 30 charles Darwin refuses to travel with HMS Beagle   

1835  Melbourne, Australia is founded on August - 30.   

1836  The city of Houston is founded by Augustus Chapman Allen and John Kirby Allen on this day in history.   

1837  Ellen Lewis Herndon Arthur, 1st lady (1881-85) on this day in history.   

1842  Victor Alphonse Duvernoy, composer on this day in history.   

1843  The first black participation in national political convention (Liberty Party) on August - 30.   

1843  On August - 30 1st blacks participation in natl political convention (Liberty Party)   

1844  On this day in history friedrich Ratzel, German social-geographer (Lebensraum)   

1844  On August - 30 francis Baily, English astronomer/mathematician (Baily's Beads), dies   

1849  Joseph Mallaby Dent, Dutch publisher on August - 30.   

1850  On this day in history honolulu, Hawaii becomes a city   

1852  On August - 30 jacobus Henricus van 't Hoff, Neth, physical chemist (Nobel 1901)   

1854  On this day in history john Fremont issues proclamation freeing slaves of Missouri rebels   

1860  1st British tram opens (Birkenhead) on this day in history.   

1862  On this day in history battle of 2nd Manassas-Pope defeated by Lee-Battle of Richmond, KY   

1862  On this day in history battle of Altamont-Confederates beat Union forces in Tennessee   

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1334  On this day in history birth of pedro, the Cruel, King of Castilia & Leon   

1334  Pedro of Castile (d. 1369) was born on August - 30.   

1377  Shah Rukh, ruler of Persia and Transoxonia (d. 1447) was born on August - 30.   

1609  Artus I Quellinus "the Old", Flemish sculptor, baptised was born on August - 30.   

1687  On August - 30 birth of francesco Maria Vallara, composer   

1693  On this day in history birth of jacobus Nozeman, Dutch composer/organist   

1705  David Hartley, English philosopher (d. 1757) was born on this day in history.   

1720  On August - 30 birth of samuel Whitbread, English brewer (d. 1796)   

0524  On August - 30 chlodomer, King of the France to Orleans, dies at about 29   

0526  On August - 30 death of theodorik the Great, King of Ostrogoten (b. 454)   

1181  On August - 30 alexander III, [Orlando Bandinelli], Italian Pope (1159-81), dies   

1428  Death of Emperor Shōkō (b. 1401) on August - 30.   

1482  On August - 30 louis van Bourbon, prince-Bishop of Luik (Cluppelslagers), dies   

1483  On August - 30 louis XI, King of France (1461-83), dies at 60   

1529  On August - 30 juan del Encina, composer, dies at 61   

1580  Emanuel Philibert, Duke of Savoy/governor of Netherlands, dies on this day in history.