Page 2: Historical Events In October - 09

1655  On this day in history swedish king Karel X Gustaaf occupies Krakow   

1663  On this day in history gian M Crescimbeni, Italian literary/critic (Arcadia)   

1668  On this day in history mass society storms palace of "heretics" Spanish gov Jose de Paternina   

1701  On this day in history collegiate School of Ct (Yale U), chartered in New Haven   

1701  The Collegiate School of Connecticut is chartered in New Haven. It was later renamed to Yale University on this day in history.   

1708  On October - 09 battle at Lesnaya: Russian army captures Swedish convoy   

1716  England & France sign treaty on this day in history.   

1727  Johann Wilhelm Hertel, composer on October - 09.   

1740  On October - 09 neth gov-general Adriaen Valckenier allows murder of 8000 Chinese inhabitants of Batavia   

1757  On this day in history charles X, reactionary king of France (1824-30); deposed   

1760  Russian/Austrian army occupies Berlin [OS=Sep 28] on October - 09.   

1760  Pierre Gaveaux, composer on this day in history.   

1766  Bedrich Divis Weber, composer on this day in history.   

1769  Marianus Konigsperger, composer, dies at 60 on this day in history.   

1771  The Dutch merchant ship Vrouw Maria sinks near the coast of Finland on this day in history.   

1771  On October - 09 frederik Willem, duke of Brunswick (1813-15)   

1776  Mission Dolores founded by SF Bay on October - 09.   

1776  Spanish missionaries first settle in what is now San Francisco, California on October - 09.   

1781  On this day in history thomas Alexander Erskine Kelly, composer, dies at 49   

1782  On October - 09 lewis Cass, (Gov-Mich)   

1794  French troops occupy Hertogenbosch on this day in history.   

1797  On this day in history elia van Vilnius, Latvian rabbi, dies at 77   

1799  On this day in history british frigate HMS Lutine sinks off Dutch coast   

1804  On October - 09 hobart Tasmania founded   

1806  On this day in history prussia declares war on France.   

1806  On this day in history benjamin Banneker, astronomer/mathematician, dies at 74   

1813  John Jones Pettus, Confederate governor (D-Miss, 1859-63) on this day in history.   

1817  University of Gent officially opens on October - 09.   

1818  Congress of Aken returns to France from Libya on October - 09.   

1819  On October - 09 samuel McGowan, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1897   

1820  Guayaquil, Ecuador declares its freedom from Ecuador on this day in history.   

1821  On this day in history georg-Friederich Fuchs, composer, dies at 68   

1822  George Sykes, Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1880 on this day in history.   

1823  On October - 09 mary Ann Shadd Cary, 1st black US newspaper publishers   

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1201  On October - 09 birth of robert de Sorbon, founded Sorbonne University, Paris   

1221  On October - 09 birth of salimbene di Adam, Italian chronicler   

1261  Dionysius, the Justified, king of Portugal (1279-1325) was born on this day in history.   

1328  On this day in history birth of king Peter I of Cyprus (d. 1369)   

1581  Claude G Bachet de Meziriac, French mathematician/theologist was born on October - 09.   

1586  Jan III van Foreest, lawyer/poet/mayor of Hoorn was born on October - 09.   

1586  Archduke Leopold V of Austria (d. 1632) was born on October - 09.   

1626  John Ferrabosco, composer was born on this day in history.   

1047  On this day in history clemens II, [Suitger], Pope (1046-47), dies (b. 1005)   

1253  Grosseteste, an English scholar, dies at 78 on October - 09.   

1273  On this day in history death of elisabeth of Bavaria, Queen of Germany   

1326  On October - 09 reinald I, earl of Gelre/monarch, went insane, dies   

1390  Johan I, king of Castile (1379-90), dies on October - 09.   

1423  Frederik III of Blankenheim, bishop of Straatsburg/Utrecht, dies on this day in history.   

1436  Jacoba van Bavarian, countess of Holland/Zealand, dies at 35 on this day in history.   

1555  Death of Justus Jonas, German Protestant reformer (b. 1493) on October - 09.