September 16: Significance, Events, and How to Celebrate Natural Disasters & Epidemics

0096  Titus Flavius Domitianus, emperor of Rome (81-96), murdered at 45   

0655  Martinus I, bannished Pope (649-53), dies   

0827  Pope Valentine   

1087  Victor III, [Dauferio/Desiderius], Italian Pope (1086-87), dies   

1380  Charles V, the Wise, King of France (1364-80), dies   

1386  Traversari Ambrosius, Italian humanist//sciencist/general.   

1387  King Henry V of England is born   

1387  Henry V, king of England (1413-22)   

1394  Clement VII, [Robert de Geneve], Pope (1378-94), dies   

1400  Owain Glyndŵr is declared Prince of Wales by his followers.   

1498  Tomas de Torquemada, inquisitor who burned 10000 people, dies.   

1542  Diego de Almagro, Spanish captain-general of Peru, beheaded.   

1547  Abu al-Faiz ibn Mubarak Faizi, Persian-Dutch East Indies poet   

1557  Jacques Mauduit, composer   

1574  Samuel Coster, Dutch physician/playwright (Polyxena)   

1575  King Johan Casimir of Palts promises military aid to hugenots   

1584  Matthias Gallas, Austria earl of Campo/duke of Lucerna/general-major.   

1597  French troops chase away Albrecht of Austria   

1630  Mass village of Shawmut changes name to Boston   

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

1652  Spanish troops occupy Dunkerk.   

1652  Dirck Janszoon Sweelinck, Dutch composer, dies at 61   

1654  Russian troops occupy Smolensk on Poland.   

1662  Flamsteed sees solar eclipse, inaugural known astronomical observation   

1662  Flamsteed sees solar eclipse, 1st known astronomical observation   

1666  "Messiah" Sjabtai Tswi is recorded as becoming Islamiet   

1668  King John II Casimir of Poland steps down, flees to France   

1672  Anne Bradstreet, American poet, dies (birth date unknown).   

1685  John Gay, English poet (Beggar's Opera)   

1696  Lambert Pietkin, composer, dies at 83   

1701  James Francis Edward Stuart, sometimes called the "Old Pretender", is recorded as becoming the Jacobite claimant to the thrones of England and Scotland   

1702  Emperor Leopold I declares war on France, Cologne and Bavaria.   

1729  Willem KH Friso installed as viceroy of Groningen.   

1736  Johann N Tetens, German/Danish philosopher/mathematician   

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