Historical Events In September - 28
Friday, 18 October 2024
1652 John Asselijn, landscape painter/etcher, dies at about 42 on this day in history.
1657 Emilia Secunda Antwerpiana, daugher of Willem of Orange, dies at 75 on September - 28.
1667 Jacobus Golius, mathematician/founder (Leidse observ), dies at 71 on this day in history.
1678 "Pilgrim's Progress" published on this day in history.
1679 Mihael Omerza, composer on September - 28.
1681 On this day in history johann Mattheson, Hamburg Germany, composer
1687 On September - 28 venetians take Athens from the Turks
1694 Mouton, mathematician, dies on this day in history.
1698 Pierre-Louis Moreau de Maupertuis, France, mathematician/astronomer on September - 28.
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 this day in history.
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 On this day in history august Henry Fitzroy, 3rd duke of Grafton/English premier
1745 The British national anthem, God Save The King, sung for the first time on this day in history.
1745 On this day in history bonnie Prince Charlie becomes king of Scotland
1746 On September - 28 william Jones, London England, British Orientalist/jurist
1748 Johann Michael Demmler, composer on September - 28.
1757 Andrea Zani, composer, dies at 60 on September - 28.
1759 Cornelis Pronk, portrait painter/cartoonist, dies at 67 on this day in history.
1760 Russian & Austrian army occupies Berlin on this day in history.
1761 On this day in history budan de Boislaurent, mathematician
1767 On September - 28 gentlemen 17 forbid private slave transport India to Cape of Good Hope
1779 American Revolution: Samuel Huntington is elected President of the Continental Congress, succeeding John Jay on this day in history.
1780 On this day in history elie Decazes, France, Bourbon Restoration political figure
1781 On this day in history siege of Yorktown begins, last battle of the Revolutionary War
1781 9,000 American forces & 7,000 French forces begin siege of Yorktown on September - 28.
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 September - 28.
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