Page 2: Historical Events In October - 09

1655  On this day in history swedish king Karel X Gustaaf occupies Krakow   

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

1668  On October - 09 mass society storms palace of "heretics" Spanish gov Jose de Paternina   

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  On October - 09 johann Wilhelm Hertel, composer   

1740  Neth gov-general Adriaen Valckenier allows murder of 8000 Chinese inhabitants of Batavia on October - 09.   

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

1760  On this day in history russian/Austrian army occupies Berlin [OS=Sep 28]   

1760  Pierre Gaveaux, composer on this day in history.   

1766  On October - 09 bedrich Divis Weber, composer   

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

1771  On October - 09 the Dutch merchant ship Vrouw Maria sinks near the coast of Finland.   

1771  Frederik Willem, duke of Brunswick (1813-15) on this day in history.   

1776  Mission Dolores founded by SF Bay on this day in history.   

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

1781  On October - 09 thomas Alexander Erskine Kelly, composer, dies at 49   

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

1794  On this day in history french troops occupy Hertogenbosch   

1797  On this day in history elia van Vilnius, Latvian rabbi, dies at 77   

1799  On October - 09 british frigate HMS Lutine sinks off Dutch coast   

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  University of Gent officially opens on this day in history.   

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

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

1820  On this day in history guayaquil, Ecuador declares its freedom from Ecuador   

1821  On October - 09 georg-Friederich Fuchs, composer, dies at 68   

1822  On October - 09 george Sykes, Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1880   

1823  Mary Ann Shadd Cary, 1st black US newspaper publishers on October - 09.   

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1201  On October - 09 birth of robert de Sorbon, founded Sorbonne University, Paris   

1221  On October - 09 birth of salimbene di Adam, Italian chronicler   

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

1328  On this day in history birth of king Peter I of Cyprus (d. 1369)   

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

1586  On October - 09 birth of jan III van Foreest, lawyer/poet/mayor of Hoorn   

1586  Archduke Leopold V of Austria (d. 1632) was born on October - 09.   

1626  John Ferrabosco, composer was born on October - 09.   

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

1253  Grosseteste, an English scholar, dies at 78 on October - 09.   

1273  Death of Elisabeth of Bavaria, Queen of Germany on October - 09.   

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  On October - 09 death of justus Jonas, German Protestant reformer (b. 1493)