Historical Events In December - 08

1794  On December - 08 1st issue of Herald of Rutland, VT published   

1795  Jacques Francois Gallay, composer on December - 08.   

1811  On this day in history louis Alexander Balthasar Schindelmeisser, composer   

1813  On December - 08 ludwig von Beethoven's 7th Symphony in A, premieres   

1822  Luther Prentice Bradley, Brig General (Union volunteers), died in 1910 on this day in history.   

1826  On this day in history friedrich Siemens, German industrialist   

1828  On December - 08 clinton Bowen Fisk, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1890   

1830  On December - 08 h Benjamin Constant, French politician/writer, dies at 63   

1831  On December - 08 james Hoban, architect who designed White House, dies   

1832  Bjornstjerne Bjornson, Norway, novelist (Pa Guds Veje, Nobel-1903) on this day in history.   

1846  On December - 08 hector Berlioz's "La Damnation de Faust," premieres   

1849  Giuseppe Verdi's opera "Luisa Miller," premieres in Naples on this day in history.   

1852  On this day in history gustav Freytag's "Die Journalisten," premieres in Breslau   

1854  On December - 08 pope Pius IX proclaims Immaculate Conception, makes Mary, free of Original Sin   

1857  On December - 08 1st production of Dion Boucicaults "Poor of NY"   

1861  On this day in history william Durant auto manufacturer cofounder of Chevrolet, founder of General Motors, Durant Motors; was born   

1861  On this day in history aristide Maillol, France, painter/sculptor (Seated Woman)   

1862  Georges Feydeau, French playwright (La Dame de Chez Maxim's) on this day in history.   

1863  2,500 reported killed at Church of La Compana, Santiago Chile on December - 08.   

1863  Abraham Lincoln announces plan for Reconstruction of South on December - 08.   

1864  Pope Pius IX publishes encyclical Quanta cura ("Syllabus errorum") on this day in history.   

1865  Jacques Hadamard, French mathematician (Taylor series) on December - 08.   

1869  20th Roman Catholic ecumenical council, Vatican I, opens in Rome on this day in history.   

1872  On this day in history j C Powys, writer   

1874  Jesse James gang takes train at Muncie Kansas on December - 08.   

1875  On December - 08 aleksandr Ostrovsky's "Volki i Ovsty," premieres in St Petersburg   

1876  Suriname begins compulsory education for 7-12 years on this day in history.   

1877  Paul Emile Ladmirault, composer on December - 08.   

1880  5,000 armed Boers gather in Paardekraal South-Africa on December - 08.   

1881  Vienna's Ring Theater destroyed by fire, kills between 640-850 on December - 08.   

1881  On December - 08 padraic Colum, Irish poet/novelist/poet (Collected Poems)   

1882  On December - 08 manuel Maria Ponce, Fresnillo Mexico, composer (Estrellita)   

1886  On December - 08 american Federation of Labor (AFL) formed by 26 craft unions; Samuel Gompers elected AFL president   

1886  American Federation of Labor (AFL) formed by 26 craft unions Samuel Gompers elected AFL president on December - 08.   

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1508  On December - 08 birth of gemma Frisius, [Jemme Reinersz], Frisian geographer/astronomer   

1574  On this day in history birth of maria Anna of Bavaria, Empress consort of the Holy Roman Empire (d. 1616)   

1626  On this day in history birth of christina, queen of Sweden who abdicated after becoming Catholic   

1678  Horatio Walpole, 1st Baron Walpole of Wolterton, English diplomat (d. 1757) was born on December - 08.   

1699  Maria Josepha of Austria, queen of Poland (d. 1757) was born on December - 08.   

1704  On this day in history birth of anton de Haen, medical expert (Ratio Medendi)   

1708  On December - 08 birth of francis I, Holy Roman emperor (1745-1765)   

1715  John Althuysen, Frisian vicar/poet (Frisianche rymlery) was born on December - 08.   

0644  On December - 08 death of omar I, 2nd kalief of Islam, murdered   

0899  Arnulf of Carinthia, last emperor of Austria-France, dies on December - 08.   

1292  On December - 08 john Peckham, English archbishop of Canterbury, dies at 62   

1587  Death of Mary, Queen of Scots (1560-1587), executed on December - 08.   

1596  On December - 08 death of luis de Carabajal, 1st Jewish author in America, executed in Mexico   

1626  On this day in history death of john Davies, English poet (b. 1569)   

1632  Death of Philippe van Lansberge, Flemish astronomer (b. 1561) on this day in history.   

1643  On this day in history john Pym, English House of Commons member, dies at about 59