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August Wilhelm Ambros
1816Nov, 17

August Wilhelm Ambros

August Wilhelm Ambros, Austrian composer and historian (d. 1876)
August Wilhelm Ambros (17 November 1816 – 28 June 1876) was an Austrian composer and music historian of Czech descent.

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Events on 1816

  • 20Feb

    The Barber of Seville

    Rossini's opera The Barber of Seville premieres at the Teatro Argentina in Rome.
  • 10Apr

    Second Bank of the United States

    The Federal government of the United States approves the creation of the Second Bank of the United States.
  • 22May

    Ely and Littleport riots of 1816

    A mob in Littleport, Cambridgeshire, England, riots over high unemployment and rising grain costs, which spreads to Ely the next day.
  • 5Aug

    Electrical telegraph

    The British Admiralty dismisses Francis Ronalds's new invention of the first working electric telegraph as "wholly unnecessary", preferring to continue using the semaphore.
  • 14Aug

    Cape Colony

    The United Kingdom formally annexes the Tristan da Cunha archipelago, administering the islands from the Cape Colony in South Africa.