Page 2: Historical Events In August - 13

1704  Lorenzo Fago, composer on August - 13.   

1705  Battle of Blenheim, in southern Germany on this day in history.   

1713  On August - 13 king Frederik Willem declares war on Brandenburg-Prussia   

1717  On August - 13 christoph Nichelsmann, German composer   

1721  On August - 13 francis Ireland, composer   

1732  Voltaire's "Zaire," premieres in Paris on this day in history.   

1740  On August - 13 hunger strike in Rotterdam   

1747  On this day in history adrien-Joseph van Helmont, composer   

1748  On this day in history pieter L van de Kasteele, Dutch politician/patriot   

1749  On August - 13 j E Schlegel, writer, dies   

1756  On August - 13 the birth of Queen Adelaide, Consort of William IV   

1762  On August - 13 john Alberti, theologist/philological, dies at 64   

1777  On this day in history american explosive device made by David Bushnell explodes near British vessel off New London, CT.   

1784  On August - 13 english parliament accept India Act   

1787  On this day in history isaac de Pinto, merchant/lender/Dutch States-general, dies   

1788  Prussia joins Anglo-Dutch alliance to form Triple Alliance to prevent spread of Russo-Swedish War of 1788-90 on this day in history.   

1792  Revolutionaries imprison French royals including Marie Antoinette on August - 13.   

1799  English fleet under lord Seymour overthrows Suriname on this day in history.   

1802  Nikolaus Lenau, Hungary, German poet (Faust, Die Albigenser) on this day in history.   

1808  Henri Hardouin, composer, dies at 81 on August - 13.   

1814  Cape of Good Hope formally ceded to British by the Dutch on this day in history.   

1817  On August - 13 karoly Thern, composer   

1818  On August - 13 lucy Blackwell-Stone, US abolitionist (US Woman's Suffrage Assn)   

1819  On August - 13 george Gabriel Stokes, physicist/mathematician (spectroscope)   

1820  George Grove, London, England, biblical scholar/misicographer on August - 13.   

1826  William Thomas Best, composer on August - 13.   

1831  On this day in history nat Turner leads uprising of slaves in Virginia   

1831  Salomon Jaoassohn, composer on this day in history.   

1840  Giovanni Verga, Italian writer (Eros) on August - 13.   

1841  Unaarrimin, cricketer (played cricket as Johnny Mullagh) on this day in history.   

1841  Bernhard Heinrich Romberg, German composer, dies at 73 on this day in history.   

1844  On this day in history explorer Ludwig Leichhardt leaves Brisbane to explore unknown territory beyond the Darling Downs.   

1846  On August - 13 joint expedition led by CDR Robert Stockton seizes Los Angeles, CA   

1851  On this day in history john Lincoln Clem, Drummer (Union volunteers), died in 1937   

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0582  On this day in history birth of arnulf of Metz, French bishop and saint (d. 640)   

1311  On this day in history birth of king Alfonso XI of Castile and Leon (d. 1350)   

1422  William Caxton, 1st English printer (Histories of Troy) was born on this day in history.   

1584  On this day in history birth of theophilus Howard, 2nd Earl of Suffolk, English politician (d. 1640)   

1617  On August - 13 birth of johann A Quenstedt, German Lutherian theologist   

1625  On this day in history birth of rasmus Bartholin, Danish physician, mathematician, and physicist (d. 1698)   

1655  On August - 13 birth of johann Christoph Denner, inventor (clarinet)   

1662  On August - 13 birth of charles Seymour, 6th Duke of Somerset, English politician (d. 1748)   

0586  Death of Radegund, wife of Clotaire I on August - 13.   

0587  Radegundis, daughter of Thurings king Berthar/saint, dies on August - 13.   

0662  Maximus Confessor, Greek theologist/crusader, dies on this day in history.   

0900  Zwentibold, king of Lutherans (895-900), dies in battle at 29 on this day in history.   

1134  On this day in history irene [Pirisca], Byzantine empress, dies   

1191  On this day in history philips van Heinsberg, archbishop of Cologne, dies   

1278  Daikaku, Zen teacher Rinzai line/head of Kenchoji, dies in Japan at 65 on this day in history.   

1382  On this day in history death of eleanor of Aragon, wife of John I of Castile (b. 1358)