Top Historical Events That Happened on September 17

1819  1st whaling ship arrives in Hawaii   

1819  Jean-Bernard-Leon Foucault, physicist (pendulum proved Earth rotates).   

1820  Earle Van Dorn, Major General (Confederate Army), died in 1863   

1820  Henri Hamal, composer, dies at 76   

1821  Charles Victor Arthur Saint-Leon, composer.   

1823  Abraham L Breguet, French clock maker, dies at 76.   

1824  Giacomo Tritto, composer, dies at 91.   

1825  Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar, MC (Confederacy), died in 1893.   

1826  G F Berhard Riemann, German mathematician (zeta-function).   

1834  Edouard Pailleron, French attorney/stage writer   

1835  Charles Darwins lands on Chatham Galapagos-archipelago   

1839  Ethel Mary Dell, [Mrs G T Savage], romantic novelist, dies   

1846  Francesco Giuseppi Pollini, composer, dies at 84.   

1849  Vaclav Juda Novotny, composer.   

1850  Great fire in San Francisco   

1853  Clemens Baeumker, German historian (Patristischen Philosophie).   

1854  Hans Muller, music historian.   

1857  Konstantin Tsiolkovsky, pioneer in rocket and space research.   

1858  Dred Scott, US slave (REV-decision Supreme court), dies   

1859  In this year, Man in SF claims himself Norton I, emperor of America.   

1859  Frank D Adams, Canada geologist/educator.   

1861  1st day school for freedmen forms at Fortress Monroe Virginia   

1861  Owen Seaman, poet/editor (Punch)   

1862  Battle of Sharpsburg (Antietam)-bloodiest day of the Civil War.   

1862  Battle of Cumberland Gap, TN-evacuted by Federals.   

1862  Lawrence O'Bryan Branch, (Rep-D)/Confederate brig-general, dies at 41   

1863  Pope Pius IX encyclical On persecution in New Grenada.   

1863  Albartus Telting, Fries poet/2nd-Member of parliament, dies.   

1864  Grant approves Sheridan's plan for Shenandoah Valley Campaign.   

1864  Walter Savage Landor, author, dies   

1868  Roman Nose (Wiquini), Cheyenne indian leader, dies   

1869  Christian Lange, Norway, pacifist/internationalist (Nobel 1921)   

1869  Peter M Roget, England, lexographer (Roget's Thesaurus), dies   

1871  Mont Cenis railway tunnel Switzerland opens   

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1192  Minamoto no sanetomo: Japanese shogun   

1271  Wenceslas ii: King of bohemia & poland (1278-1305)   

1550  Pope paul v: Pope paul v (d. 1621)   

1552  Paul v: [camillo borghese], italy, pope (1605-21)   

1580  Charlotte brabantia: Countess of nassau/daughter of willem of orange   

1605  Francesco sacrati: Composer   

1619  John lambert: English general-major/parliament leader   

1630  Ranuccio ii farnese: Duke of parma   

1179  Hildegard van bingen: Mystic/composer (ordo virtutum),   

1312  Ferdinand v: King of castile/leon,   

1322  Robert iii of flanders: Robert iii of flanders (b. 1249)   

1422  Death of Constantine ii of bulgaria: Constantine ii of bulgaria   

1563  Henry manners: 2nd earl of rutland, english soldier   

1574  Death of Pedro menendez de aviles: Soldier/navigator,   

1575  Heinrich bullinger: Swiss religious reformer (b. 1504)   

1604  Lucas osiander: Composer,