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What Happened in August 1829

Historical Events


Music releaseMusic Premiere

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

Composer Gioachino Rossini
Composer
Gioachino Rossini
  • 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

Famous Birthdays

  • 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)


What Happened in 1829