What Happened in August 1829

Historical Events

Aug 3 Gioachino Rossini's last and greatest opera "Guillaume Tell" (William Tell) premieres at Salle Le Peletier in Paris

Aug 8 French government of De Polignac forms
Aug 9 "Stourbridge Lion" locomotive goes into service
Aug 16 Siamese twins Chang & Eng Bunker arrive in Boston to be exhibited
Aug 25 President Jackson makes an offer to buy Texas, but Mexican government refuses

Aug 5 Heinrich Stiehl, German organist and composer, born in Lübeck (d. 1886)
Aug 5 Milo Smith Hascall, American banker, real estate executive, and Brigadier General (Union Army), born in Le Roy, New York (d. 1904)
Aug 7 Thomas Ewing Jr, American attorney, 1st chief justice of Kansas, congressman, and Brevet Major General (Union Army), born in Lancaster, Ohio (d. 1896)
Aug 12 John Horace Forney, Major General (Confederate Army), (d. 1902)
Aug 15 Eduard de Hartog, Dutch composer, born in Amsterdam (d. 1909)
Aug 21 Otto Goldschmidt, German composer, born in Hamburg, Germany (d. 1907)
Aug 23 Moritz B. Cantor, German historian of mathematics, born in Mannheim, Germany (d. 1920)
Aug 28 Albert Dietrich, German composer and conductor, born in Meissen, Germany (d. 1908)