428 Historic Events for August 15
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| 1668 |
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Rijnbond disbands
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| 1684 |
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Spain and Germany sign cease fire with France
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| 1688 |
Birth |
Frederick-William I, king of Prussia (1713-1740)
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| 1702 |
Birth |
Francesco Zuccarelli, Italian rococo painter/etcher
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| 1725 |
Birth |
Ferdinando Bertoni, composer
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| 1725 |
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Gerard Noodt, lawyer, dies at 77
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| 1727 |
Birth |
Johann Georg Holzbogen, composer
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| 1728 |
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Marin Marias, composer, dies at 72
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| 1729 |
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Benjamin Neukirch, German poet (Herrn von Hofmannswaldau), dies at 64
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| 1736 |
Birth |
Johann Christoph Kellner, composer
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| 1740 |
Birth |
M Claudius, writer
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| 1741 |
Birth |
Thomas Norris, composer
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| 1741 |
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French troops attack the Rhine
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| 1748 |
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United Lutheran Church of US organized
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| 1758 |
Death |
Pierre Bouguer, French mathematician (fotometrie), dies at 60
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| 1760 |
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Battle at Leignitz: Prussia beats Austria and Russia
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| 1769 |
Birth |
Napoleon Bonaparte, resident of Elba (emperor 1804-13, 1814-15)
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| 1771 |
Birth |
Walter Scott, Scotland, novelist/poet (Lady of Lake)
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| 1776 |
Birth |
Ignaz Xaver von Seyfried, composer
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| 1776 |
Birth |
Gottlieb Schick, German painter (Apollo under the Hirten)
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| 1782 |
Birth |
Henri MG earl the Merode, Belgian revolutionary (Souvenirs)
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| 1785 |
Birth |
Thomas De Quincey, Eng, writer (Confessions of English Opium Eater)
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| 1785 |
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French cardinal De Rohan arrested
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| 1787 |
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Alexander Aliabiev, composer
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| 1788 |
Birth |
Carel SW van Hogendorp, Dutch colonial director
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