Page 2: Historical Events In September - 28

1652  On this day in history john Asselijn, landscape painter/etcher, dies at about 42   

1657  Emilia Secunda Antwerpiana, daugher of Willem of Orange, dies at 75 on September - 28.   

1667  On September - 28 jacobus Golius, mathematician/founder (Leidse observ), dies at 71   

1678  On September - 28 "Pilgrim's Progress" published   

1679  On this day in history mihael Omerza, composer   

1681  Johann Mattheson, Hamburg Germany, composer on September - 28.   

1687  On this day in history venetians take Athens from the Turks   

1694  On this day in history mouton, mathematician, dies   

1698  On this day in history pierre-Louis Moreau de Maupertuis, France, mathematician/astronomer   

1701  Divorce legalized in MD on this day in history.   

1702  Robert Spencer 2nd earl of Sunderland, Engl PM (1687-88), dies at 61 on this day in history.   

1704  Maryland allows divorce if wife mispleases clergyman/preacher on September - 28.   

1705  Henry Fox, 1st Baron Holland, England, corrupt politician (Chiswick) on September - 28.   

1708  On this day in history battle at Lesnaya: Russian army captures Swedish convoy   

1735  August Henry Fitzroy, 3rd duke of Grafton/English premier on this day in history.   

1745  On this day in history the British national anthem, God Save The King, sung for the first time   

1745  Bonnie Prince Charlie becomes king of Scotland on September - 28.   

1746  William Jones, London England, British Orientalist/jurist on this day in history.   

1748  Johann Michael Demmler, composer on this day in history.   

1757  On this day in history andrea Zani, composer, dies at 60   

1759  On this day in history cornelis Pronk, portrait painter/cartoonist, dies at 67   

1760  Russian & Austrian army occupies Berlin on September - 28.   

1761  On this day in history budan de Boislaurent, mathematician   

1767  Gentlemen 17 forbid private slave transport India to Cape of Good Hope on this day in history.   

1779  American Revolution: Samuel Huntington is elected President of the Continental Congress, succeeding John Jay on this day in history.   

1780  On September - 28 elie Decazes, France, Bourbon Restoration political figure   

1781  On September - 28 siege of Yorktown begins, last battle of the Revolutionary War   

1781  9,000 American forces & 7,000 French forces begin siege of Yorktown on this day in history.   

1785  Napoleon Bonaparte (16) graduates from the military academy in Paris (42nd in a class of 51) on this day in history.   

1785  On September - 28 david Walker, Wilmington NC, abolitionist (Appeal to Colored Citizens)   

1787  Congress sends Constitution to state legislatures for their approval on September - 28.   

1789  On this day in history richard Bright, England, physician (Bright's Disease/nephritis)   

1789  Thomas Day, author, killed by fall from a horse at Wargrave Berkshire on this day in history.   

1793  Denis A Affre, archbishop of Paris (1840-48) on this day in history.   

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1330  On September - 28 birth of nicolas Flamel, French alchemist (d. 1417?)   

1493  Agnolo Firenzuola, [Giovannini], Italian monk (Golden Donkey) was born on September - 28.   

1565  On September - 28 birth of alessandro Tassoni, Modena Italy, political writer (Rape of Bucket)   

1571  Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio, Italian artist (d. 1610) was born on this day in history.   

1573  On this day in history birth of caravaggio, Italy, painter   

1573  On this day in history birth of michelangelo Buanarroti, Caprese Italy, painter/sculpter   

1596  On September - 28 birth of vredius, [Olivier de Wree], Flemish historian/poet/mayor   

1605  On this day in history birth of boulliau, mathematician   

0235  Death of Saint Pontianus, Pope on September - 28.   

0876  On September - 28 death of louis the German, King of Eastern Francia (b. 804)   

0929  Death of Wenceslaus I, duke of Bohemia, murdered on this day in history.   

0935  On September - 28 death of wenceslaus I, Duke of Bohemia (b. 907)   

1104  Pedro I, king of Navarra & Aragon, dies on this day in history.   

1197  On this day in history henry VI von Hohenstaufen, Roman Catholic German King (1169-97), dies   

1296  Adolf VII, earl of Mountain (1259-96), dies on September - 28.   

1429  Death of Cymburgis of Masovia, wife of Duke Ernest of Austria on this day in history.