September 12: Significance, Events, and How to Celebrate Natural Disasters & Epidemics

0352  Maximinus van Trier, bishop of Trier/saint, dies   

0413  Marcellinus of Carthage, Christian saint   

0490  -BC- Athenians defeat 2nd Persian invasion of Greece at Marathon.   

1012  Guido van Anderlecht, Flemish pilgrim/saint, dies   

1015  Henry I is recorded as becoming earl of Leuven   

1015  Lambert I with the Beard, count of Leuven, dies in battle at about 65   

1185  Andronicus I Comnenus, Byzantine emperor (1183-85), lynched   

1213  Battle at Muret: Crusade of Simon de Montfort beat Pedro II of Aragon   

1213  Pedro II, [el Catolico], king of Aragon, dies in battle   

1217  French prince Louis and English king Henry III sign peace treaty.   

1229  The Aragonese army under the command of James I of Aragon disembarks at Santa Ponça, Majorca, with the purpose of conquering the island.   

1362  Innocent VI, [Etienne Aubert], Pope (1352-62), dies   

1396  Crusaders under earl of Nevers reaches Nicopolis   

1494  Francois I of Valois-Angouleme, king of France (1515-47)   

1500  Albrecht III van Saxon-Meisen, duke of Saxon, dies at 57   

1543  Treaty of Venlo: Duke Willem of Gulik and Emperor Charles V.   

1556  Emperor Charles steps down, his brother Ferdinand van Austria takes over.   

1559  Lodovico Cardi da Cigoli, Italian painter/architect   

1575  Henry Hudson, England, navigator/explorer (Hudson River).   

1591  Richard Grenville, vice-admiral (Roanoke) dies in battle at 49   

1604  Louis Gunther, earl of Nassau, dies in battle at about 29.   

1609  Henry Hudson discovers Hudson River.   

1624  1st submarine tested (London).   

1635  Sweden and Poland sign ceasefire Treaty of Stuhmsdorf   

1639  Viceroy Thomas Wentworth sails back to England.   

1642  Cinq Mars, French plotter, executed   

1647  Joos Banckert, Swiss admiral (Spanish silver fleet), dies at 48.   

1649  Drogheda, Ireland falls to Puritan troops; inhabitants massacred.   

1655  Sebastien de Brossard, composer.   

1660  Jacob Cats, [Father Cats], pension advisor of Holland, dies at 82.   

1661  Jacobus de la Torra, RC apostole vicar of Holland, dies at about 53   

1673  Prince Willem III occupies Naarden   

1674  Claes P "Nicolas" Tulip, mayor of Amsterdam, dies at 80   

1683  Turkish troops attacks Vienna overthrows by Polish king Sobieski   

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