Page 2: Historical Events In December - 08

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

1795  On this day in history jacques Francois Gallay, composer   

1811  Louis Alexander Balthasar Schindelmeisser, composer on December - 08.   

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

1822  On this day in history luther Prentice Bradley, Brig General (Union volunteers), died in 1910   

1826  On December - 08 friedrich Siemens, German industrialist   

1828  On this day in history clinton Bowen Fisk, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1890   

1830  On this day in history h Benjamin Constant, French politician/writer, dies at 63   

1831  James Hoban, architect who designed White House, dies on this day in history.   

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

1846  Hector Berlioz's "La Damnation de Faust," premieres on this day in history.   

1849  Giuseppe Verdi's opera "Luisa Miller," premieres in Naples on December - 08.   

1852  Gustav Freytag's "Die Journalisten," premieres in Breslau on December - 08.   

1854  Pope Pius IX proclaims Immaculate Conception, makes Mary, free of Original Sin on this day in history.   

1857  1st production of Dion Boucicaults "Poor of NY" on this day in history.   

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 December - 08.   

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

1863  On December - 08 abraham Lincoln announces plan for Reconstruction of South   

1864  On this day in history pope Pius IX publishes encyclical Quanta cura ("Syllabus errorum")   

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

1869  20th Roman Catholic ecumenical council, Vatican I, opens in Rome on December - 08.   

1872  On December - 08 j C Powys, writer   

1874  On this day in history jesse James gang takes train at Muncie Kansas   

1875  Aleksandr Ostrovsky's "Volki i Ovsty," premieres in St Petersburg on this day in history.   

1876  Suriname begins compulsory education for 7-12 years on December - 08.   

1877  On December - 08 paul Emile Ladmirault, composer   

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

1881  On December - 08 vienna's Ring Theater destroyed by fire, kills between 640-850   

1881  On this day in history padraic Colum, Irish poet/novelist/poet (Collected Poems)   

1882  Manuel Maria Ponce, Fresnillo Mexico, composer (Estrellita) on this day in history.   

1886  American Federation of Labor (AFL) formed by 26 craft unions; Samuel Gompers elected AFL president on this day in history.   

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 this day in history birth of gemma Frisius, [Jemme Reinersz], Frisian geographer/astronomer   

1574  Maria Anna of Bavaria, Empress consort of the Holy Roman Empire (d. 1616) was born on December - 08.   

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 this day in history.   

1704  On December - 08 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  Death of Omar I, 2nd kalief of Islam, murdered on December - 08.   

0899  On December - 08 arnulf of Carinthia, last emperor of Austria-France, dies   

1292  On this day in history john Peckham, English archbishop of Canterbury, dies at 62   

1587  On this day in history death of mary, Queen of Scots (1560-1587), executed   

1596  Death of Luis de Carabajal, 1st Jewish author in America, executed in Mexico on this day in history.   

1626  Death of John Davies, English poet (b. 1569) on December - 08.   

1632  On December - 08 death of philippe van Lansberge, Flemish astronomer (b. 1561)   

1643  John Pym, English House of Commons member, dies at about 59 on this day in history.