Page 2: Historical Events In October - 09

1655  Swedish king Karel X Gustaaf occupies Krakow   

1663  Gian M Crescimbeni, Italian literary/critic (Arcadia)   

1668  Mass society storms palace of "heretics" Spanish gov Jose de Paternina.   

1701  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.   

1708  Battle at Lesnaya: Russian army captures Swedish convoy.   

1716  England and France sign treaty.   

1727  Johann Wilhelm Hertel, composer   

1740  Neth gov-general Adriaen Valckenier allows murder of 8000 Chinese inhabitants of Batavia   

1757  Charles X, reactionary king of France (1824-30); deposed   

1760  Russian/Austrian army occupies Berlin [OS=Sep 28].   

1760  Pierre Gaveaux, composer   

1766  Bedrich Divis Weber, composer.   

1769  Marianus Konigsperger, composer, dies at 60   

1771  The Dutch merchant ship Vrouw Maria sinks near the coast of Finland   

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

1776  Mission Dolores founded by SF Bay   

1776  Spanish missionaries inaugural settle in what is now San Francisco, California   

1781  Thomas Alexander Erskine Kelly, composer, dies at 49.   

1782  Lewis Cass, (Gov-Mich).   

1794  French troops occupy Hertogenbosch.   

1797  Elia van Vilnius, Latvian rabbi, dies at 77.   

1799  British frigate HMS Lutine sinks off Dutch coast   

1804  Hobart Tasmania founded.   

1806  Prussia declares war on France   

1806  Benjamin Banneker, astronomer/mathematician, dies at 74   

1813  John Jones Pettus, Confederate governor (D-Miss, 1859-63)   

1817  University of Gent officially opens.   

1818  Congress of Aken returns to France from Libya   

1819  Samuel McGowan, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1897   

1820  Guayaquil, Ecuador declares its freedom from Ecuador.   

1821  Georg-Friederich Fuchs, composer, dies at 68.   

1822  George Sykes, Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1880.   

1823  Mary Ann Shadd Cary, 1st black US newspaper publishers   

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1201  Robert de sorbon: Founded sorbonne university, paris   

1221  Salimbene di adam: Italian chronicler   

1261  Dionysius: The justified, king of portugal (1279-1325)   

1328  King peter i of cyprus: King peter i of cyprus (d. 1369)   

1581  Claude g bachet de meziriac: French mathematician/theologist   

1586  Jan iii van foreest: Lawyer/poet/mayor of hoorn   

1586  Archduke leopold v of austria: Archduke leopold v of austria (d. 1632)   

1626  John ferrabosco: Composer   

1047  Clemens ii: [suitger], pope (1046-47),   

1253  Grosseteste: An english scholar,   

1273  Death of Elisabeth of bavaria: Queen of germany   

1326  Death of Reinald i: Earl of gelre/monarch, went insane,   

1390  Death of Johan i: King of castile (1379-90),   

1423  Frederik iii of blankenheim: Bishop of straatsburg/utrecht,   

1436  Death of Jacoba van bavarian: Countess of holland/zealand,   

1555  Justus jonas: German protestant reformer (b. 1493)