Top Historical Events That Happened on September 20

1674  2nd West Indie Company forms.   

1679  Cornelis Evertsen the Young, vice-admiral of Zealand, dies at 51.   

1688  French troops occupies Palts.   

1697  Peace of Saki (ends 9 years war)   

1703  Archibald Campbell, Scot milt man (blood bath of Glencoe), dies at 52.   

1706  Franz Habermann, composer.   

1706  Pierre Verdier, composer, dies at 79.   

1721  Thomas Doggett, Irish actor   

1731  Sicco van Goslinga, Fries diplomat/sect of High Council, dies at 67.   

1737  Runner Edward Marshall completes his journey in the Walking Purchase forcing the cession of 1.2 million acres (4860 km²) of Lenape-Delaware tribal land to the Pennsylvania Colony.   

1744  Giacomo Quarenghi, Ital/Russian master builder (Hermitage Theater).   

1746  Bonnie Prince Charlie flees to France from Scotland   

1767  Jose Mauricio Nunes Garcia, composer.   

1771  Mungo Park, Scotish explorer (Africa)   

1773  Pieter de Swart, architect (Delfts Port Rotterdam), dies at 63.   

1777  Paoli massacre   

1777  Ramon Felix Cuellar y Altarriba, composer   

1787  Prince Willem V returns to Hague.   

1790  Francisco Acuna the Figueroa, Uruguayan poet (Toraidas).   

1791  Sergei T Aksakov, Russian writer (Semejnaja chronika).   

1792  French defeat Prussians at Valmy.   

1793  British troops under maj-gen Williamson lands on (French) Haiti   

1795  Charles Heinrich Christoph Zeuner, composer   

1797  US frigate Constitution (Old Ironsides) launched in Boston.   

1803  Robert Emmet, Irish nationalist, executed   

1806  Utamaro Kitagawa, painter, dies.   

1809  Sterline "Old Pap" Price, Major General (Confederate Army)   

1810  Alpheus Starkey Williams, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers)   

1810  Wouter J van Troostwijk, painter, dies at 28.   

1820  George Washington Morgan, Brig General (Union volunteers).   

1823  Daniel Steibelt, composer, dies at 57   

1830  inaugural National Black convention meets (Phila).   

1830  1st Negro Convention of Free Men agree to boycott slave-produced goods.   

1832  Johann Joseph Abert, composer.   

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1486  Arthur: Prince of wales, son of king henry vii of england   

1593  Gottfried scheidt: Composer   

1599  Christian the younger: German protestant military leader   

1653  Benedict schultheiss: Composer   

1663  Pirro conte d' albergati capacelli: Composer   

1665  Johannes van der hagen: Vicar/genealogist/chronologer   

1706  Franz habermann: Composer   

1744  Giacomo quarenghi: Ital/russian master builder (hermitage theater)   

1168  Death of Paschal iii: [guido di crema], italian anti-pope,   

1246  Death of Mikhail of chernigov: Ruler of kiev   

1384  Louis: Duke of anjou/wife of marie of bretagne   

1460  Gilles binchois: Flemish composer   

1493  Philippe pot: Governor/viceroy of burgundy,   

1586  Death of Anthony babington: Page/conspirator to mary stuart, executed at 24   

1590  Death of Lodovico agostini: Italian composer (b. 1534)   

1613  Willem h van est (estius): Theologist,