Page 2: Historical Events In December - 14

1774  On this day in history mass militiamen successfully attacked arsenal of Ft William & Mary   

1777  On December - 14 juan N Gallego, Spanish poet/interpreter (El dos the mayo)   

1779  On December - 14 mariano Rodriguiz de Ledesma, composer   

1780  Karl Robert von Nesselrode, Germ/Russian minister of Foreign Affairs on December - 14.   

1782  Charleston, SC evacuated by British on December - 14.   

1783  On December - 14 johann Christoph Kienlen, composer   

1788  On December - 14 carl Phillip Emanuel Bach, German composer, dies at 74   

1789  On this day in history maria Agata Szymanowska, composer   

1793  First state road authorized, Frankfort, Ky to Cincinnati on this day in history.   

1793  1st state road authorized, Frankfort, Ky to Cincinnati on this day in history.   

1798  David Wilkinson of Rhode Island patents a nut and bolt machine on December - 14.   

1798  David Wilkinson of Rhode Island patents a nut & bolt machine on this day in history.   

1799  On December - 14 george Washington, the American revolutionary leader and first president of the United States, dies of acute laryngitis at his estate in Mount Vernon, Virginia   

1799  George Washington, 1st president USA (1789-97), dies at 66 on this day in history.   

1812  On December - 14 charles J Canning, English earl/1st viceroy of British-Indies   

1819  Alabama admitted to the Union as 22nd state on this day in history.   

1819  On this day in history alabama admitted to Union as 22nd state   

1823  On December - 14 vincenzo Cuoco, Italian historian (Naple revolution 1799), dies at 53   

1825  Decembrist uprising in Russia against Tsar Nicholas I begins on this day in history.   

1829  On December - 14 john Mercer Langston, 1st black to hold US political office   

1829  On this day in history luigi Marchesi, composer, dies at 74   

1830  On this day in history allen Thomas, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1907   

1832  On December - 14 daniel Harris Reynolds, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1902   

1836  On this day in history the Toledo War unofficially ends.   

1837  William Wells, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1892 on December - 14.   

1849  First chamber music group in US gives their first concert (Boston) on this day in history.   

1849  1st chamber music group in US gives their 1st concert (Boston) on this day in history.   

1849  Conradin Kreutzer, composer, dies at 69 on this day in history.   

1853  On December - 14 salvador Diaz Miron, Mexican poet (Los Cien Mejores Poemas)   

1861  Prince Albert, husband of England's Queen Victoria, dies in London on this day in history.   

1861  On December - 14 albert, prince consort of Engld/husband of Queen Victoria, dies at 42   

1862  Alexander V Amfiteatrov, Russian/French/Italian writer [OS] on December - 14.   

1862  George Dashiell Bayard, Union brig general, dies at 27 on this day in history.   

1863  On this day in history battle of Bean's Station-Confederacy repulses Union in Tennessee   

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1009  Emperor Go-Suzaku of Japan (d. 1045) was born on December - 14.   

1363  John Van [Jean C] Gerson, French theologist was born on December - 14.   

1503  Nostradamus, [Michel de Nostre-Dam], French astrologist/prophet was born on this day in history.   

1546  Tycho Brahe, Knudstrup Denmark, astronomer (Golden nose) was born on December - 14.   

1553  On this day in history birth of henri IV the Bourbon, king of Navarra (Henri III)/France   

1625  Barthélemy d'Herbelot de Molainville, French orientalist (d. 1695) was born on this day in history.   

1631  On this day in history birth of anne Conway, Viscountess Conway, English philosopher (d. 1679)   

1640  On December - 14 birth of (baptism date)   

0872  Adrian II, Italian Pope (867-72)/last married pope, dies at about 80 on December - 14.   

1077  On this day in history agnes of Poitou, German empress/wife of emperor Henry III, dies   

1136  Death of Harald IV, "Gylle Krist", king of Norway, murdered on December - 14.   

1417  On December - 14 death of john Oldcastle, Lord Cobham, English nobleman, hanged & burned   

1460  On this day in history death of guarino da Verona (b. 1370)   

1476  Death of Vlad III the Impaler (b. 1431) on December - 14.   

1510  On this day in history death of friedrich of Saxony (b. 1473)   

1542  On December - 14 james, king of Scotland (1513-42), dies at 30