Page 2: Historical Events In September - 28

1652  John Asselijn, landscape painter/etcher, dies at about 42   

1657  emilia Secunda Antwerpiana, daugher of Willem of Orange, dies at 75.   

1667  Jacobus Golius, mathematician/founder (Leidse observ), dies at 71   

1678  "Pilgrim's Progress" published   

1679  Mihael Omerza, composer   

1681  Johann Mattheson, Hamburg Germany, composer   

1687  Venetians take Athens from the Turks   

1694  Mouton, mathematician, dies   

1698  Pierre-Louis Moreau de Maupertuis, France, mathematician/astronomer   

1701  divorce legalized in MD.   

1702  Robert Spencer 2nd earl of Sunderland, Engl PM (1687-88), dies at 61   

1704  maryland allows divorce if wife mispleases clergyman/preacher.   

1705  Henry Fox, 1st Baron Holland, England, corrupt politician (Chiswick)   

1708  Battle at Lesnaya: Russian army captures Swedish convoy   

1735  August Henry Fitzroy, 3rd duke of Grafton/English premier   

1745  The British national anthem, God Save The King, sung for the inaugural time   

1745  Bonnie Prince Charlie is recorded as becoming king of Scotland   

1746  william Jones, London England, British Orientalist/jurist.   

1748  johann Michael Demmler, composer.   

1757  Andrea Zani, composer, dies at 60   

1759  cornelis Pronk, portrait painter/cartoonist, dies at 67.   

1760  Russian and Austrian army occupies Berlin   

1761  budan de Boislaurent, mathematician.   

1767  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.   

1780  elie Decazes, France, Bourbon Restoration political figure.   

1781  Siege of Yorktown begins, last battle of the Revolutionary War   

1781  9000 American forces and 7000 French forces begin siege of Yorktown.   

1785  Napoleon Bonaparte (16) graduates from the military academy in Paris (42nd in a class of 51)   

1785  David Walker, Wilmington NC, abolitionist (Appeal to Colored Citizens)   

1787  congress sends Constitution to state legislatures for their approval.   

1789  Richard Bright, England, physician (Bright's Disease/nephritis)   

1789  Thomas Day, author, killed by fall from a horse at Wargrave Berkshire   

1793  denis A Affre, archbishop of Paris (1840-48).   

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1330  Nicolas Flamel, French alchemist (d. 1417?) was born on September - 28.   

1493  On this day in history birth of agnolo Firenzuola, [Giovannini], Italian monk (Golden Donkey)   

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

1571  On this day in history birth of michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio, Italian artist (d. 1610)   

1573  Caravaggio, Italy, painter was born on this day in history.   

1573  On September - 28 birth of michelangelo Buanarroti, Caprese Italy, painter/sculpter   

1596  On this day in history birth of vredius, [Olivier de Wree], Flemish historian/poet/mayor   

1605  Boulliau, mathematician was born on this day in history.   

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

0876  Death of Louis the German, King of Eastern Francia (b. 804) on September - 28.   

0929  Death of Wenceslaus I, duke of Bohemia, murdered on September - 28.   

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

1104  Pedro I, king of Navarra & Aragon, dies on September - 28.   

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 this day in history.   

1429  On this day in history death of cymburgis of Masovia, wife of Duke Ernest of Austria