Aug 18 Curacao governor De Veer sends militia to stop rebellious slaves
Aug 20 Joseph Haydn returns to Vienna from England
Aug 25 Curaçao slaves opponents returns to St Christopher
Birthdays in History
Aug 22 Abraham Capadose, Dutch physician and missionary, born in Amsterdam (d. 1874)
Aug 28 Joannes Paredis, Belgian Bishop of Roermond, born in Bree, Belgium (d. 1886)
Deaths in History
Aug 4 Timothy Ruggles, American-born Tory politician (b. 1711)
Aug 26 Alessandro Cagliostro [Giuseppe Balsamo], Italian adventurer and magician (Prince of Quacks), dies while serving a life imprisonment for being a freemason in Castel Sant'Angelo at 52
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