Page 2: Historical Events In October - 09

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

1663  Gian M Crescimbeni, Italian literary/critic (Arcadia) on this day in history.   

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

1701  On this day in history collegiate School of Ct (Yale U), chartered in New Haven   

1701  On October - 09 the Collegiate School of Connecticut is chartered in New Haven. It was later renamed to Yale University.   

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

1716  On this day in history england & France sign treaty   

1727  Johann Wilhelm Hertel, composer on this day in history.   

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

1757  Charles X, reactionary king of France (1824-30); deposed on this day in history.   

1760  Russian/Austrian army occupies Berlin [OS=Sep 28] on October - 09.   

1760  On October - 09 pierre Gaveaux, composer   

1766  Bedrich Divis Weber, composer on this day in history.   

1769  On this day in history marianus Konigsperger, composer, dies at 60   

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

1771  Frederik Willem, duke of Brunswick (1813-15) on October - 09.   

1776  Mission Dolores founded by SF Bay on October - 09.   

1776  On October - 09 spanish missionaries first settle in what is now San Francisco, California.   

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

1782  On this day in history lewis Cass, (Gov-Mich)   

1794  French troops occupy Hertogenbosch on October - 09.   

1797  Elia van Vilnius, Latvian rabbi, dies at 77 on this day in history.   

1799  British frigate HMS Lutine sinks off Dutch coast on October - 09.   

1804  Hobart Tasmania founded on this day in history.   

1806  Prussia declares war on France on October - 09.   

1806  Benjamin Banneker, astronomer/mathematician, dies at 74 on this day in history.   

1813  John Jones Pettus, Confederate governor (D-Miss, 1859-63) on October - 09.   

1817  On this day in history university of Gent officially opens   

1818  Congress of Aken returns to France from Libya on this day in history.   

1819  On this day in history samuel McGowan, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1897   

1820  On October - 09 guayaquil, Ecuador declares its freedom from Ecuador   

1821  On this day in history georg-Friederich Fuchs, composer, dies at 68   

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

1823  On October - 09 mary Ann Shadd Cary, 1st black US newspaper publishers   

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

1221  On October - 09 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 October - 09.   

1581  On October - 09 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 October - 09 birth of archduke Leopold V of Austria (d. 1632)   

1626  John Ferrabosco, composer was born on this day in history.   

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 October - 09 reinald I, earl of Gelre/monarch, went insane, dies   

1390  On October - 09 johan I, king of Castile (1379-90), dies   

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 October - 09.