Events & Holidays In October - 09

Army & Navy Day (Azerbaijan)

Columbus Day (Dominican Republic)

Dia de Communidad (Spain)

Han'Gul / Korean Alphabet Day (South Korea)

Independence Day (Uganda)

Independence of Guayaquil Day (Ecuador)

Leif Erikson Day (United States of America)

National Dignity Day (Peru)

1201  On this day in history birth of robert de Sorbon, founded Sorbonne University, Paris   

1221  On this day in history birth of salimbene di Adam, Italian chronicler   

1261  On this day in history birth of dionysius, the Justified, king of Portugal (1279-1325)   

1328  King Peter I of Cyprus (d. 1369) was born on this day in history.   

1581  Claude G Bachet de Meziriac, French mathematician/theologist was born on this day in history.   

1586  Jan III van Foreest, lawyer/poet/mayor of Hoorn was born on this day in history.   

1586  On this day in history birth of archduke Leopold V of Austria (d. 1632)   

1626  On this day in history birth of john Ferrabosco, composer   

1047  On this day in history clemens II, [Suitger], Pope (1046-47), dies (b. 1005)   

1253  Grosseteste, an English scholar, dies at 78 on this day in history.   

1273  Death of Elisabeth of Bavaria, Queen of Germany on this day in history.   

1326  On this day in history reinald I, earl of Gelre/monarch, went insane, dies   

1390  Johan I, king of Castile (1379-90), dies on this day in history.   

1423  On this day in history frederik III of Blankenheim, bishop of Straatsburg/Utrecht, dies   

1436  Jacoba van Bavarian, countess of Holland/Zealand, dies at 35 on this day in history.   

1555  Death of Justus Jonas, German Protestant reformer (b. 1493) on this day in history.