Page 2: Historical Events In October - 09

1655  Swedish king Karel X Gustaaf occupies Krakow on October - 09.   

1663  On October - 09 gian M Crescimbeni, Italian literary/critic (Arcadia)   

1668  Mass society storms palace of "heretics" Spanish gov Jose de Paternina on this day in history.   

1701  Collegiate School of Ct (Yale U), chartered in New Haven on this day in history.   

1701  The Collegiate School of Connecticut is chartered in New Haven. It was later renamed to Yale University on this day in history.   

1708  On this day in history battle at Lesnaya: Russian army captures Swedish convoy   

1716  England & France sign treaty on October - 09.   

1727  Johann Wilhelm Hertel, composer on October - 09.   

1740  On October - 09 neth gov-general Adriaen Valckenier allows murder of 8000 Chinese inhabitants of Batavia   

1757  On this day in history charles X, reactionary king of France (1824-30); deposed   

1760  On October - 09 russian/Austrian army occupies Berlin [OS=Sep 28]   

1760  On this day in history pierre Gaveaux, composer   

1766  Bedrich Divis Weber, composer on October - 09.   

1769  Marianus Konigsperger, composer, dies at 60 on this day in history.   

1771  The Dutch merchant ship Vrouw Maria sinks near the coast of Finland on this day in history.   

1771  On this day in history frederik Willem, duke of Brunswick (1813-15)   

1776  On this day in history mission Dolores founded by SF Bay   

1776  Spanish missionaries first settle in what is now San Francisco, California on this day in history.   

1781  Thomas Alexander Erskine Kelly, composer, dies at 49 on October - 09.   

1782  On October - 09 lewis Cass, (Gov-Mich)   

1794  On this day in history french troops occupy Hertogenbosch   

1797  On October - 09 elia van Vilnius, Latvian rabbi, dies at 77   

1799  British frigate HMS Lutine sinks off Dutch coast on this day in history.   

1804  On October - 09 hobart Tasmania founded   

1806  On this day in history prussia declares war on France.   

1806  On this day in history benjamin Banneker, astronomer/mathematician, dies at 74   

1813  On this day in history john Jones Pettus, Confederate governor (D-Miss, 1859-63)   

1817  On October - 09 university of Gent officially opens   

1818  On this day in history congress of Aken returns to France from Libya   

1819  Samuel McGowan, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1897 on this day in history.   

1820  Guayaquil, Ecuador declares its freedom from Ecuador on October - 09.   

1821  Georg-Friederich Fuchs, composer, dies at 68 on October - 09.   

1822  On this day in history george Sykes, Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1880   

1823  Mary Ann Shadd Cary, 1st black US newspaper publishers on this day in history.   

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

1221  Salimbene di Adam, Italian chronicler was born on October - 09.   

1261  On October - 09 birth of dionysius, the Justified, king of Portugal (1279-1325)   

1328  On October - 09 birth of king Peter I of Cyprus (d. 1369)   

1581  On this day in history birth of claude G Bachet de Meziriac, French mathematician/theologist   

1586  Jan III van Foreest, lawyer/poet/mayor of Hoorn was born on October - 09.   

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

1626  On October - 09 birth of john Ferrabosco, composer   

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

1253  On this day in history grosseteste, an English scholar, dies at 78   

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

1326  Reinald I, earl of Gelre/monarch, went insane, dies on October - 09.   

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

1423  On October - 09 frederik III of Blankenheim, bishop of Straatsburg/Utrecht, dies   

1436  Jacoba van Bavarian, countess of Holland/Zealand, dies at 35 on October - 09.   

1555  Death of Justus Jonas, German Protestant reformer (b. 1493) on October - 09.