Page 3: Historical Events In September - 17

1819  On September - 17 1st whaling ship arrives in Hawaii   

1819  On this day in history jean-Bernard-Leon Foucault, physicist (pendulum proved Earth rotates)   

1820  On September - 17 earle Van Dorn, Major General (Confederate Army), died in 1863   

1820  Henri Hamal, composer, dies at 76 on September - 17.   

1821  Charles Victor Arthur Saint-Leon, composer on September - 17.   

1823  On this day in history abraham L Breguet, French clock maker, dies at 76   

1824  Giacomo Tritto, composer, dies at 91 on September - 17.   

1825  On this day in history lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar, MC (Confederacy), died in 1893   

1826  On September - 17 g F Berhard Riemann, German mathematician (zeta-function)   

1834  On September - 17 edouard Pailleron, French attorney/stage writer   

1835  Charles Darwins lands on Chatham Galapagos-archipelago on September - 17.   

1839  On September - 17 ethel Mary Dell, [Mrs G T Savage], romantic novelist, dies   

1846  On this day in history francesco Giuseppi Pollini, composer, dies at 84   

1849  Vaclav Juda Novotny, composer on this day in history.   

1850  Great fire in San Francisco on this day in history.   

1853  On this day in history clemens Baeumker, German historian (Patristischen Philosophie)   

1854  On September - 17 hans Muller, music historian   

1857  On September - 17 konstantin Tsiolkovsky, pioneer in rocket & space research   

1858  On this day in history dred Scott, US slave (REV-decision Supreme court), dies   

1859  On this day in history man in SF claims himself Norton I, emperor of America   

1859  Frank D Adams, Canada geologist/educator on September - 17.   

1861  On September - 17 1st day school for freedmen forms at Fortress Monroe Virginia   

1861  Owen Seaman, poet/editor (Punch) on September - 17.   

1862  On September - 17 battle of Sharpsburg (Antietam)-bloodiest day of the Civil War   

1862  On this day in history battle of Cumberland Gap, TN-evacuted by Federals   

1862  On September - 17 lawrence O'Bryan Branch, (Rep-D)/Confederate brig-general, dies at 41   

1863  Pope Pius IX encyclical On persecution in New Grenada on this day in history.   

1863  On September - 17 albartus Telting, Fries poet/2nd-Member of parliament, dies   

1864  Grant approves Sheridan's plan for Shenandoah Valley Campaign on September - 17.   

1864  On September - 17 walter Savage Landor, author, dies   

1868  On September - 17 roman Nose (Wiquini), Cheyenne indian leader, dies   

1869  On this day in history christian Lange, Norway, pacifist/internationalist (Nobel 1921)   

1869  Peter M Roget, England, lexographer (Roget's Thesaurus), dies on this day in history.   

1871  On September - 17 mont Cenis railway tunnel Switzerland opens   

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1192  On September - 17 birth of minamoto no Sanetomo, Japanese shogun (d. 1219)   

1271  Wenceslas II, king of Bohemia & Poland (1278-1305) was born on September - 17.   

1550  On this day in history birth of pope Paul V (d. 1621)   

1552  Paul V, [Camillo Borghese], Italy, Pope (1605-21) was born on September - 17.   

1580  Charlotte Brabantia, countess of Nassau/daughter of Willem of Orange was born on this day in history.   

1605  Francesco Sacrati, composer was born on September - 17.   

1619  On September - 17 birth of john Lambert, English general-major/parliament leader   

1630  On this day in history birth of ranuccio II Farnese, Duke of Parma (d. 1694)   

1179  On this day in history hildegard van Bingen, mystic/composer (Ordo Virtutum), dies at 81   

1312  Ferdinand V, king of Castile/Leon, dies at 26 on this day in history.   

1322  Death of Robert III of Flanders (b. 1249) on September - 17.   

1422  On this day in history death of constantine II of Bulgaria   

1563  On September - 17 death of henry Manners, 2nd Earl of Rutland, English soldier   

1574  Pedro Menendez de Aviles, soldier/navigator, dies on this day in history.   

1575  On this day in history death of heinrich Bullinger, Swiss religious reformer (b. 1504)   

1604  On this day in history lucas Osiander, composer, dies at 69