Historical Events In October - 16

0456  Magister militum Ricimer defeats the Emperor Avitus at Piacenza and becomes master of the western Roman Empire on this day in history.   

0775  On October - 16 mansur, kalief of Abbasiden, dies   

1311  On October - 16 council of Vienne opens   

1311  On October - 16 council of Vienne (15th ecumenical council) opens   

1323  On this day in history amadeus V the Great, count of Flanders/Savoy, dies at 74   

1333  On this day in history nicolaas V, [Pietro Rainalducci], Italian anti-Pope (1328-30), dies   

1355  On October - 16 louis, King of Sicily, felled by the Black Death   

1473  Reinoud II van Brederode, viscount of Utrecht, dies on October - 16.   

1492  Columbus' fleet anchors at "Fernandina" (Long Island, Bahamas) on this day in history.   

1502  Storm ravages Friese coast on October - 16.   

1551  English Edward Seymour duke of Somerset re-arrested on October - 16.   

1553  Lucas Cranach Sr, German painter, dies at 81 on this day in history.   

1555  An English protestant, Nicholas Ridley, is burned at the stake for heresy on this day in history.   

1555  On October - 16 hugh Latimer, royal chaplain of Anna Boley, burned at stake at 80   

1570  On October - 16 baron van Montigny, Dutch earl of Horne, murdered   

1591  On this day in history gregory XIV, [Niccolo Sfondrati], Italian Pope, dies at 56   

1594  William Allen, English cardinal/founder seminary of Douai, dies at 62 on this day in history.   

1600  Olivier van Noorts ships reach Philippines on October - 16.   

1605  On October - 16 charles C Dassoucy, French writer/singer   

1621  On this day in history jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck, organist/composer, dies at about 59   

1649  Isaac van Ostade, painter, buried on this day in history.   

1674  Emperor Leopold I fires chancellor Furst Wenzel Lobkowitz on this day in history.   

1679  On October - 16 jan Dismas Zelenka, composer   

1688  Philips Koninck, painter/etcher, buried at 68 on October - 16.   

1690  On October - 16 margaretha M Alacoque, French mystic/saint, dies at 43   

1694  On October - 16 samuel Freiherr von Pufendorf, German lawyer, dies at 62   

1708  On October - 16 albrecht von Haller, Switz, experimental physiology (Acad of Science)   

1710  On this day in history british troops occupies Port Royal, Nova Scotia   

1723  On October - 16 johann Andreas Joseph Giulini, composer   

1726  Giovanni Maria Capelli, composer, dies at 77 on this day in history.   

1729  Pierre van Maldere, composer on this day in history.   

1750  Silvius Leopold Weiss, composer, dies at 64 on this day in history.   

1757  Austrian troops occupy Berlin on October - 16.   

1758  On this day in history noah Webster, lexicographer (Webster's Dictionary)   

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1396  William de la Pole, 1st Duke of Suffolk, English soldier (d. 1450) was born on October - 16.   

1430  King James II of Scotland (d. 1460) was born on October - 16.   

1483  On this day in history birth of gasparo Contarini, Italian diplomat and cardinal (d. 1542)   

1535  On this day in history birth of niwa Nagahide, Japanese warlord (d. 1585)   

1605  Charles C Dassoucy, French writer/singer was born on October - 16.   

1663  Prince Eugene of Savoy, French-born Austrian general (d. 1736) was born on October - 16.   

1679  Jan Dismas Zelenka, composer was born on October - 16.   

1708  On October - 16 birth of albrecht von Haller, Switz, experimental physiology (Acad of Science)   

0775  On this day in history mansur, kalief of Abbasiden, dies   

1323  On October - 16 amadeus V the Great, count of Flanders/Savoy, dies at 74   

1333  Nicolaas V, [Pietro Rainalducci], Italian anti-Pope (1328-30), dies on this day in history.   

1355  Death of Louis, King of Sicily, felled by the Black Death on October - 16.   

1473  Reinoud II van Brederode, viscount of Utrecht, dies on October - 16.   

1553  On this day in history lucas Cranach Sr, German painter, dies at 81   

1555  Death of Hugh Latimer, royal chaplain of Anna Boley, burned at stake at 80 on October - 16.   

1570  Death of Baron van Montigny, Dutch earl of Horne, murdered on October - 16.