Page 3: Historical Events In August - 15

1807  Johann N Tetens, German/Danish philosopher/mathematician, dies at 70 on August - 15.   

1808  A British mission to Japan arrives but the Tokugawa shogun Ienari rejects the emissaries on this day in history.   

1822  Census shows Upper Canada has 120,000 inhabitants, Lower Canada 500,000 on this day in history.   

1822  On August - 15 wilhelm Rust, composer   

1823  Orris Sanford Ferry, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers) on this day in history.   

1824  On this day in history freed American slaves forms country of Liberia   

1829  Eduard de Hartog, composer on this day in history.   

1832  Gregory XVI encyclical On liberalism and religious indifferentism on this day in history.   

1832  Gregory XVI encyclical On liberalism & religious indifferentism on August - 15.   

1834  South Australia Act is passed by Britain's Parliament, allowing for establishment of colony there on August - 15.   

1839  On this day in history hugh Archibald Clarke, composer   

1843  National black convention meets (Buffalo NY) on this day in history.   

1845  On August - 15 walter Crane, England, painter/illustrator (Beauty & Beast)   

1848  M Waldo Hanchett patents dental chair on August - 15.   

1848  Timothy Olmstead, composer, dies at 88 on this day in history.   

1851  On this day in history [Georgette A] Helena Amelung, Dutch actress (Scapegoat)   

1852  Johan Gadolin, Finnish chemist (discovered yttrium), dies at 92 on this day in history.   

1853  On August - 15 giovanni Battista Polledro, composer, dies at 72   

1856  On August - 15 j Keir Hardie, 1st Labour representative in British Parliament   

1858  On August - 15 regular mail to the Pacific coast begins   

1858  Regular mail to Pacific coast begins on this day in history.   

1860  On August - 15 florence Kling DeWolfe Harding, 1st lady (1921-23)   

1861  Lincoln directs reinforcements to be sent to MO on this day in history.   

1863  On this day in history submarine "HL Hunley" arrives in Charleston on railroad cars   

1864  On August - 15 off New England coast, CSS Tallahassee captures 6 yankee schooners   

1864  On this day in history daniel Phineas Woodbury, US engineer/Union general-major, dies   

1865  Johan[nes] B Schepers, Frisian writer (Braga) on this day in history.   

1867  2nd Reform Bill extends suffrage in England on this day in history.   

1869  The Meiji government in Japan establishes six new ministries, including one for Shinto on August - 15.   

1870  Transcontinental Railway actually completed on this day in history.   

1870  On August - 15 transcontinental Railway actually completed in Colorado   

1872  Harold Fraser-Simson, composer on this day in history.   

1874  Joseph Klausner, Polish/Israeli new testament expert on August - 15.   

1875  On this day in history samuel Coleridge-Taylor, London, composer (Hiawatha's Wedding Feast)   

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1171  King Alfonso IX of Leon (d. 1230) was born on this day in history.   

1195  Anthony of Padua, Portuguese saint (d. 1231) was born on this day in history.   

1432  Luigi Pulci, Italy, poet (Morgante) was born on August - 15.   

1575  Bartol KaÅ¡ić, Croatian writer and linguist (d. 1650) was born on August - 15.   

1613  Gilles Ménage, French scholar (d. 1692) was born on August - 15.   

1619  On August - 15 birth of hubertus Quellinus, [Quellien], Flemish cartoonist/copper plate   

1688  On August - 15 birth of frederick-William I, king of Prussia (1713-1740)   

1702  On this day in history birth of francesco Zuccarelli, Italian rococo painter/etcher   

0069  Death of Servius Sulpicius Galba, 6th emperor of Rome (68-69), murdered on August - 15.   

0423  Flavius Honorius, emperor East Roman Republic (395-423), dies on August - 15.   

0778  Death of Roland, Frankish commander on this day in history.   

1038  On this day in history stefanus I, [Arpad], 1st king of Hungary, dies   

1040  On August - 15 death of king Duncan I of Scotland   

1057  Death of Macbeth, King of Scotland, slain by son of King Duncan on this day in history.   

1118  On this day in history alexius I Comnenus, Emperor of Byzantium (1081-1118), dies   

1196  Death of Conrad II, Duke of Swabia (b. 1173) on August - 15.