Historical Events In September - 05
Thursday, 05 February 2026
1187 Louis VIII, [Coeur-de-Lion] king of France (1223-26). 

1198 Philips van Zwaben Hohenstaufen crowned king of Roman Catholic Germany 

1235 Henry I, duke of Brabant, dies. 

1319 Pedro IV, king of Aragon 

1519 2nd Battle of Tehuacingo, Mexico: Hernan Cortes vs Tlascala Aztecs 

1548 Catharine Parr, queen of England/wife of Henry VIII, dies at about 36 

1550 William Cecil appoints himself English minister of foreign affairs. 

1566 Suleiman I, Great Law Giver, sultan of Turkey (1520-66), dies at 71 

1569 Pieter Bruegel, South Netherlands painter, dies at about 44 

1572 Pieter Tichelmann, Flemish Franciscan, dies at about 71 

1590 Alexander Farnese's army forces Henry IV of France to raise the siege of Paris. 

1596 Dutch fleet commander Cornelis de Houtman taken hostage in Java. 

1600 Loreto Vittori, composer 

1622 Richelieu is recorded as becoming cardinal. 

1634 -6] Battle at Nordlingen: King Ferdinand III and Spain beat Sweden and German protestants 

1638 Louis XIV, Sun King, king of France (1643-1715) [OS]. 

1644 Prince Frederik Henry conquerors Sas of Gent. 

1644 Gillis Schey, Dutch admiral (battle at Lowestoft) 

1659 Pieter de Carpentier, Flemish gov-gen of Neth East-Indies, dies at 71 

1661 French superintendant of Finance Nicolas Fouquet arrested. 

1666 Great Fire of London ends, leaving 13200 houses destroyed and 8 dead 

1666 Gottfried Arnold, German theologist/historian/songwriter. 

1683 Jean-Baptiste Colbert, French Minister of Navy, dies at 64 

1684 John Uytenhage van Lacks, lawyer/author, drowned at 48. 

1688 Lukas Fencer, Dutch poet (Fight of Kings and Mice) 

1694 Frantisek Antonin Mica, composer 

1698 Russia's Peter the Great imposes a tax on beards. 

1725 French King Louis XV marries Polish princess Mary Lesczynski 

1734 Jean-Benjamin de La Borde, composer 

1735 Johann Christian Bach, composer, son of JS Bach (English Bach) 

1737 Johann Friedrich Gottlieb Beckmann, composer 

1750 Decree issued in Paderborn Prussia allows for annual search of all Jewish homes for stolen or "doubtful" goods 

1750 Robert Fergusson, Scottish poet (Scots poems). 

1767 August Wilhelm Schlegel, German poet/translator/critic 

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