Historical Events In October - 09

1655  Swedish king Karel X Gustaaf occupies Krakow on this day in history.  

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

1668  On this day in history mass society storms palace of "heretics" Spanish gov Jose de Paternina  

1701  On October - 09 collegiate School of Ct (Yale U), chartered in New Haven  

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  On October - 09 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  On this day in history russian/Austrian army occupies Berlin [OS=Sep 28]  

1760  On this day in history pierre Gaveaux, composer  

1766  On this day in history bedrich Divis Weber, composer  

1769  On October - 09 marianus Konigsperger, composer, dies at 60  

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

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

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

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

1781  On this day in history thomas Alexander Erskine Kelly, composer, dies at 49  

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

1794  On October - 09 french troops occupy Hertogenbosch  

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

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

1804  On October - 09 hobart Tasmania founded  

1806  Prussia declares war on France on this day in history.  

1806  Benjamin Banneker, astronomer/mathematician, dies at 74 on October - 09.  

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 October - 09.  

1819  On October - 09 samuel McGowan, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1897  

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

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

1822  George Sykes, Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1880 on October - 09.  

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

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1201  On October - 09 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 October - 09.  

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

1586  On October - 09 birth of archduke Leopold V of Austria (d. 1632)  

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

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

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

1273  On this day in history death of elisabeth of Bavaria, Queen of Germany  

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 October - 09.  

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