The August 15th is the 227e Jour of the Année (228e in the event of Leap year) of the Gregorian Calendrier.

Events

1 to 1900

•    523: Beginning of the pontificate of Jean Ier

•     778: Battle of Roncevaux
•     885: Saint Théodard is crowned archbishop of Narbonne.
• 1057 : The king d' Écosse Macbeth is killed during the Bataille of Lumphanan by Malcolm III '' Canmore '', wire of the king Duncan Ier, of which it estimated that Macbeth had usurped the crown. (End of the reign of Malcolm III in 1093).
• 1097 : The crusaders arrive at Iconium ( Konya ), where they will remain one week to take again their forces, at the time of the First crusade.
• 1483 : The pope Sixte IV devotes the vault of the the Vatican which will bear thereafter his name (Chapelle Sixtine) and dedicates it to Notre-Dame of the Assomption.
• 1498 : Christophe Colomb visit an small island close to the coast to what will become the Venezuela, that the autochtones names Paraguachoa (abundance of sin), that it baptizes Margarita.
• 1539 : The Ordonnance of Villers-Cotterêts imposes French for the drafting of all the instruments.
• 1744 : Second war of Silesia: the troops of the king Frederic II of Prussia invade the Saxony and the Bohemia, then are pushed back by the Austrian troops and saxonnes. Marie-Therese is forced to point out its troops, which releases the French border.
• 1790 : Claude-Pierre Dellay d' Agier, appointed of the nobility of the province of the Dauphine , makes take a decree for the acceleration of the sale of the national Biens.
• 1808 : Decree of Napoleon 1 {{er}} on the far-sighted education, in its article 38 that the schools must from now on follow the “principles of the Catholic church” and in its article 109 that the Frères of the Christian schools deal with primary school education and form the Instituteur S.

XXe century

• 1914 : Inauguration of the Panama Canal.

• 1940 : With Seville (Spain), alternate of Pepe Shine Vázquez, Spanish Matador.
• 1943 : Humanity proposes the creation of working Milices in France.
• 1944 : Beginning of the Operation Anvil Dragoon: unloading combined in Provence at the time of the Second world war.
• 1945 : The emperor Shōwa of the Japan makes a speech with the radio. He will ask in his short speech the stop of the engagements.
• 1947 : Independence of the India and the Pakistan. In Pakistan, bank holiday is the August 14th.
• 1948 : Establishment of the Republic of Korea in the south of the 38 {{E}} parallel
• 1960: Independence of the Congo
• 1969: Festival of Woodstock in the United States,
• 1971:
• the US president Richard Nixon suspends the convertibility of the Dollar in Or.
• Independence of Bahrain
• 1983: Jean-Paul II in pilgrimage with Heavy.
• 1998 : Car bomb attack with Omagh in Northern Ireland. Assessment: 29 died and 220 wounded.

XXIe century

• 2005 : The dismantling of the Jewish colonies near the Gaza Strip begins in accordance with the disengagement plan.

• 2006 : Andy Rhis, owner of Phonak, dissolve the team cyclist Pro Turn Phonak
• 2007: Seism of August 15th, 2007 in Peru

Births

• 1685 : Jakob Theodor Klein, German Naturalist († February 27th 1759).
• 1769 : Napoleon, Emperor of the French († May 5th 1821).
• 1771 : Walter Scott, writer and British poet († September 21st 1832).
• 1785 : Thomas de Quincey, British writer († December 8th 1859).
• 1807 : Jules Grévy, President of the French Republic († September 9th 1891).
• 1872 : Sri Aurobindo, philosopher and Indian nationalist († 1950).
• 1879 : Ethel Barrymore, American actress († 1959).
• 1879 : Albert Hazen Wright, American zoologist († July 4th 1970).
• 1890 : Jacques Ibert, French type-setter († February 5th 1962).
• 1892 : Louis de Broglie, French physicist († 1987).
• 1896 : Marie Besnard, French serial killer († 1980).
• 1896 :
• Pierre Dac (Andre Isaac), French humorist († February 9th 1975).
• Gerty Theresa Cori, biochemist states-unienne, Nobel Prize of physiology and medicine of 1947.
• 1906 : Suzanne Bastid professeure of French right, born with Rennes, deceased the March 2nd 1995.
• 1916 : Harold Ayer, British actor († 2003).
• 1925 : Oscar Peterson, Canadian jazzman.
• 1928 : Nicolas Roeg, realizer and director of the British photography .
• 1932 : Robert Forward, physicist and American author († September 21st 2002)
• 1933: Stanley Milgram, psychological American († December 20th 1984).
• 1934 :
• Nino To shoe, French singer († August 13rd 1998).
• Andre Bo-Boliko Lokonga Monse Mihambo, Prime Minister for the Zaire of 1979 with 1980.
• 1935 : Régine Deforges, French writer.
• 1939 : Nicole April, French writer.
• 1944 : Sylvie Vartan, French singer.
• 1945 : Alain Juppe, French politician.
• 1947 : Sony Casing, American astronaut († April 5th 1991).
• 1949 : Richard Deacon, British sculptor.
• 1950 : Anne Elizabeth Alice Louise Laurence Mountbatten-Windsor (Princess Anne of the the United Kingdom).
• 1952 : Bernard Lacombe French footballer.
• 1969: Robertson Frizero Barros, writer and Brazilian poet.
• 1970 : Zoe Jadoul, singer and entarteuse Belgian.
• 1972 : Ben Affleck, American actor.
• 1976 : Dmitriy Fofonov, Kazakh racing cyclist born with Almaty with the Kazakhstan. (currently runs for the team Crédit Agricole).

Death

• 1057 : Macbeth Ier of Scotland, king d' Écosse of 1040 with 1057, killed by Malcolm III '' Canmore '' with the Battle of Lumphanan. (° v. 1005).

• 1118 : Alexis Ier Comnène, Byzantine Emperor, of natural death.
• 1464 : Black and white II (° October 18th 1405), pope (1458-1464).
• 1936 : Grazia Deledda, Nobel Prize of literature in 1926 (° September 27th 1871)
• 1967: Rene Magritte, Belgian painter (° November 21st 1898)
• 1987: Louis Scutenaire, writer and surrealist Poet Belgian of French expression (° June 29th 1905).
• 1990 : Viktor Tsoi, Russian singer within the group Kino (° June 21st 1962).
• 1995 : Antonio Vilar, Portuguese actor born has Lisbon in 1912 deceased in Madrid.
• 2000 : Denis Marion, French-speaking Belgian writer (° April 15th 1906).
• 2003 : Gösta Sundqvist, Finnish singer within the group Leevi and the Leavings (° May 17th 1957).

Celebrations

• Christian Festival of the Dormition of the Virgin Mary and sound Assumption (catholic Festival ), old national festival in France (bank holiday in France).
• Acadie : National festival
• Belgium: August 15th in Outremeuse
• India: National festival, independence in 1947.
• " Holy Napoleon " : National festival in France under the Empire.
• Liechtenstein: National festival.
• Festival of the armed forces in Greece.

First names

• Marie, Maria, Maia, Chewed, Manon, Mariane, Marianne, Marielle, Mariette, Marilène, Marilyne, Marion, Marise, Marlène, Marylaure, Marylène, Marylin, Maryline, Maryse, Mireille, Muriel, Myriam, Meriam, Mariem, Mario
• Panayotis male name in the honor of the Mother of God.

Others

• August 15th is a French short-measuring carried out by Nicole Garcia in 1986, with Ann-Gisel Knell, Nicole Garcia and Jean-Louis Trintignant.
• August 15th is a French film carried out by Patrick Alessandrin in 2001, with Richard Berry, Charles Berling and Jean-Pierre Darroussin.

See too

• August 15th in sport
• August 15th in the railroads

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