Historical Events In September - 07
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0070 Roman army under Titus occupies and plunders Jerusalem 

0355 Claudius Silvanus, Roman usurper 

1134 Alfonso I de Strijdvaardige, king of Aragon (1104-34), dies. 

1151 Geoffrey Plantagenet, earl of Anjou/duke of Normandy, dies at 38 

1159 Ottaviano de Montecello elected as anti-Pope. 

1191 Third Crusade: Battle of Arsuf. 

1471 Frederik I, king of Denmark/Norway (1523-33). 

1497 Sailor Perkin Warbeck is recorded as becoming English King Richard IV 

1525 Trial against "heretic" John Pistorius ends in the Hague 

1533 Queen Elizabeth I of England is born 

1533 Elizabeth, daughter of English king Henry VIII and Anna Boleyn. 

1543 Duke Willem of Gulik surrenders to emperor Charles V 

1548 Catherine Parr, widow of King Henry VIII of England, dies 

1596 Dutch fleet bombs Banten Java. 

1599 Earl van Essex and Irish rebel Tyrone signs treaty. 

1625 Rombout Hogerbeets, lawyer/pension executive of Lead, dies at 64. 

1631 Clemens Thieme, composer 

1632 Emperor Susenyos of Ethiopia 

1635 Pal Esterhazy, composer 

1652 Battle of Monte Christo: Dutch fleet under J van Galen beat English. 

1655 Tristan l'Hermite, French dramatist/poet, dies (birth date unknown) 

1701 Germany, England and Netherlands sign anti-French covenant 

1703 Jean Monnet, composer 

1707 George-Louis Leclerc, comte de Buffon, writer on natural history 

1708 Tekle Haymanot I of Ethiopia 

1714 Treaty of Baden-French retain Alsace, Austria gets right bank of Rhine. 

1714 Treaty of Baden: Holy Roman Emperor Charles VI and France, ends War of Spanish Succession, French retain Alsace, Austria gets bank of Rhine. 

1719 John Harris, English writer 

1721 Bernhard Albinus, [Weiss], German artist (Frederik of Prussia), dies. 

1726 Francois-Andre Danican Philidor, France, composer/chess champion. 

1731 Damasus Brosmann, composer 

1735 Thomas Coutts, Scottish banker. 

1737 Luigi Galvani, Italian anatomist/physicist 

1739 Joseph Legros, composer 

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