Historical Events In August - 30
Saturday, 07 September 2024
1776 US army evacuates Long Island/falls back to Manhattan, NYC on August - 30.
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 The HMS Pandora sank after running aground on a reef the previous day on August - 30.
1797 On August - 30 the birth of Mary Shelley, English novelist and creator of 'Frankenstein'
1797 On this day in history mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, London England, author (Frankenstein)
1799 On this day in history bataafse fleet surrender to English
1800 On August - 30 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 On August - 30 joseph Anton Bauer, composer, dies at 83
1809 On August - 30 adolf Friedrich Hesse, composer
1809 On this day in history ignacy Potocki, Polish Foreign Minister (constitution), dies
1811 On this day in history thomas Gautier, writer
1813 Battle of Kulm: French forces defeated by Austrian-Prussian-Russian alliance on August - 30.
1813 On this day in history princess Mathilde of Bavaria d. 1862
1820 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?" on this day in history.
1820 On August - 30 george Frederick Root, composer
1826 Theodor Zwetler, composer, dies at 67 on August - 30.
1831 Charles Darwin refuses to travel with HMS Beagle on August - 30.
1835 On August - 30 melbourne, Australia is founded.
1836 On this day in history the city of Houston is founded by Augustus Chapman Allen and John Kirby Allen
1837 Ellen Lewis Herndon Arthur, 1st lady (1881-85) on August - 30.
1842 Victor Alphonse Duvernoy, composer on August - 30.
1843 The first black participation in national political convention (Liberty Party) on this day in history.
1843 1st blacks participation in natl political convention (Liberty Party) on this day in history.
1844 Friedrich Ratzel, German social-geographer (Lebensraum) on August - 30.
1844 Francis Baily, English astronomer/mathematician (Baily's Beads), dies on August - 30.
1849 Joseph Mallaby Dent, Dutch publisher on this day in history.
1850 Honolulu, Hawaii becomes a city on August - 30.
1852 Jacobus Henricus van 't Hoff, Neth, physical chemist (Nobel 1901) on this day in history.
1854 John Fremont issues proclamation freeing slaves of Missouri rebels on August - 30.
1860 On this day in history 1st British tram opens (Birkenhead)
1862 Battle of 2nd Manassas-Pope defeated by Lee-Battle of Richmond, KY on August - 30.
1862 On August - 30 battle of Altamont-Confederates beat Union forces in Tennessee
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