Today in History for August 1832
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Months in 1832: January February March April May June July September October November December
Historical Events
Events 1 - 4 of 4
1st - The Black Hawk War ends.
2nd - Battle of Bad Axe, Wisconsin: 1,300 Illinois militia defeat Sauk & Fox Native Americans ending the Black Hawk War in the US
15th - Gregory XVI encyclical On liberalism & religious indifferentism
27th - Black Hawk, leader of Sauk-indians, gives himself up
Famous Birthdays
Birthdays 1 - 8 of 8
2nd - Henry Steel Olcott, co-founder (Theosophical Society)
3rd - Ivan Zajc, composer
11th - Thomas Ogden Osbord, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers)
12th - Hely Hutchinson Almond, politician/doctor
16th - Wilhelm Wundt, German physiologist/psychologist/philosopher
20th - Thaddeus Sobieski Constantine Lowe, inventor, died in 1913
23rd - Alexander Chambers, Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1888
27th - James Alexander Walker, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1901
Famous Weddings
Weddings 1 - 1 of 1
9th - King Leopold I of Belgium marries Louisa Maria
Famous Deaths
Deaths 1 - 3 of 3
24th - Nicolas Léonard Sadi Carnot, French mathematician (b. 1796)
26th - Henryk Klein, composer, dies at 96
31st - Jean Nicolas Auguste Kreutzer, composer, dies at 53
