Events on Sep 28
- 0235Bishop of Rome Pontianus steps down
- 0351Battle at Mursa: Emperor Constantine II beats Emperor Maxentius
- 0351Constantine II beats Emperor Maxentius
- 1066William the Conqueror troops sail to England
- 1106Battle at Tinchebrai: English King Henry I beats his brother Robert
- 1362Guillaum de Grimoard elected as Pope Urban V
- 1528Spanish fleet sinks in Florida hurricane; about 380 die
- 1538Battle at Preveza: Turkish fleet under Barbarossa beats Spanish
- 1542Juan Rodriguez Cabrillo discovers California, at San Diego Bay
- 1621Battle at Chocim Dniester: King Sigismund II beats Turks
- 1652English-Dutch sea battle at Kentish Knock
- 1687Venetians take Athens from the Turks
- 1701Divorce legalized in Maryland
- 1704Maryland allows divorce if wife mispleases clergyman / preacher
- 1745Bonnie Prince Charlie becomes King of Scotland
- 1760Russian and Austrian army occupies Berlin
- 1767Gentlemen 17 forbid private slave transport India to Cape of Good Hope
- 17819,000 American forces and 7,000 French forces begin siege of Yorktown
- 1785Napoleon Bonaparte (16) graduates from the military academy in Paris (42nd in a class of 51)
- 1787Congress sends Constitution to state legislatures for their approval
- 1815Joachim Murats fleet sails from Corsica to Naples
- 1850US Navy abolishes flogging as punishment
- 1867Toronto becomes capital of Ontario
- 1868Battle of Alcolea, causes Queen Isabella 2 of Spain to flee to France
- 1868Opelousas Massacre at St. Landry Parish Louisiana (200 blacks killed)
- 1879Sydney Australia inaugurates steam motor tram route
- 1887Gele River (Huang Ho) in China floods, kills about 1.5 million
- 1889Carlos I crowned King of Portugal (1889-1908)
- 1894Simon Marks and Tom Spencer open Penny Bazaar in Manchester
- 1899Transvaal mobilizes
Born on Sep 28
- 1493Agnolo Firenzuola [Giovannini]: Italian Monk (Golden Donkey)
- 1565Alessandro Tassoni: Modena, Italy -- Political writer (Rape of Bucket)
- 1573Caravaggio: Italy -- Painter
- 1573Michelangelo Buanarroti: Caprese, Italy -- Painter / sculpter
- 1596Vredius [Olivier de Wree]: Flemish historian / poet / Mayor
- 1605Boulliau: Mathematician
- 1612Michel Anguier: French sculptor
- 1679Mihael Omerza: Composer
- 1681Johann Mattheson: Hamburg, Germany -- Composer
- 1698Pierre-Louis Moreau de Maupertuis: France -- Mathematician / astronomer
- 1705Henry Fox: England, United Kingdom -- 1st Baron Holland, corrupt politician (Chiswick)
- 1705Johann Peter Kellner: Composer
- 1735August Henry Fitzroy: 3rd Duke of Grafton / English Premier
- 1746William Jones: London, England -- British Orientalist / jurist
- 1748Johann Michael Demmler: Composer
- 1761Budan de Boislaurent: Mathematician
- 1780Elie Decazes: France -- Bourbon Restoration political figure
- 1785David Walker: Wilmington, North Carolina -- Abolitionist (Appeal to Colored Citizens)
- 1793Denis-Auguste Affre Franc: Archbishop / opponent of King Louis-Philippe
- 1807Arnold Henry Guyot: Switzerland -- US geologist / geographer / meteorologist
- 1811Friedrich Hecker: Baden -- German revolutionary Republican politician
- 1813Anton Wallerstein: Composer
- 1819Jacob G de Hoop Scheffer: Dutch vicar / theologist
- 1820Freidrich Engels: German social philosopher
- 1824Alfred Gilpin Jones: Weymouth, Nova Scotia -- Lt-gov of Nova Scotia (1900-06)
- 1824Francis Turner Palgrave: England, United Kingdom -- Poet (Golden Treasury) / Professor (Oxford)
- 1828Friedrich A Lange: Prussia -- Philosopher / socialist (Neo-Kantianism)
- 1833James Deering Fessenden: Bvt Major General (Union volunteers)
- 1840Alexander Swift "Sandie" Pendleton: Lieutenant Colonel (Confederate Army)
- 1840Rudolf Baumbach: Thuringia, Germany -- Writer of student drinking songs
Died on Sep 28
- 0929Wenceslaus I: Duke of Bohemia, murdered
- 1104Pedro I: King of Navarra and Aragon
- 1197Henry VI von Hohenstaufen: Roman Catholic German King (1169-97)
- 1296Adolf VII: Earl of Mountain (1259-96)
- 1509Siwara / Sjoerd Aylva: Fries army leader (siege of Franeker)
- 1618Gilles van Ledenberg: Secretary of Utrecht States (1588-1618), suicide at 68
- 1649Ottavio Vernizzi: Composer, dies at 79
- 1652John Asselijn: Landscape Painter / etcher, dies at about 42
- 1657Emilia Secunda Antwerpiana: Daugher of Willem of Orange, dies at 75
- 1667Jacobus Golius: Mathematician / founder (Leidse observ), dies at 71
- 1694Mouton: Mathematician
- 1702Robert Spencer 2nd Earl of Sunderland: English Prime Minister (1687-88), dies at 61
- 1757Andrea Zani: Composer, dies at 60
- 1759Cornelis Pronk: Portrait Painter / cartoonist, dies at 67
- 1789Thomas Day: Author, killed by fall from a horse at Wargrave Berkshire
- 1815Nicolas Desmarest: French geographer (Volcanos), dies at 90
- 1819Karl Haack: Composer, dies at 68
- 1833Lemuel Haynes: Revolutionary War veteran, dies at 88
- 1852Johann Friedrich Schwencke: Composer, dies at 60
- 1859Rinse Posthumus: Fries writer
- 1868Thomas Carmichael Hindman: Attorney / Confederate General Major, shot at 40
- 1869Libri: Mathematician
- 1873Emile Gaboriau: Detective writer (Monsieur Lecoq), dies at 37
- 1879Nathan C Meeker: United States -- Poet / writer, murdered
- 1891Herman Melville: Writer (Billy Budd, Moby Dick), dies at 72
- 1899Giovanni Segantini: Italian Painter (Become his fare)
- 1903Jesus Monasterio: Composer, dies at 67
- 1907Frederich I W L: Grand Duke of Baden (1856-1907), dies at 81
- 1911Louis Pincoffs: Businessman / Dutch politician 1st-Chamber
- 1914Stevan Mokranjac: Composer, dies at 58
Historical events on September 29
- 0219Batavian soldiers consecrate altar on Hercules Magusanus Rome
- 0235St. Pontianus ends his reign as Catholic Pope
- 0440Pope Leo I the Great, installed
- 0855Benedict III begins his reign as Catholic Pope
- 1066William the Conqueror invade England
- 1187Saladins army marches into Jerusalem
- 1227Pope Gregory IX excommunicate German Emperor Frederik II
- 1349People of Krems Austria accuse Jews of poisoning wells
- 1364Battle of Auray, English forces defeat French at Brittany
- 1521Turkish troops occupy Belgrade
- 1564Robert Dudley becomes Earl of Leicester
- 1567War of Religion - Huguenots try to kidnap King Charles IX
- 1608Captain Newport arrives from England with supplies for colonists
- 16502nd Fronde-uprising ends
- 1650Henry Robinson opens 1st Marriage Bureau (England)
- 1678France and Brandenburg signs peace treaty
- 1785Chasidic sect is excommunicated in Cracow Poland
- 17891st Congress adjourns
- 1789US War Department established a regular army
- 1793Tennis is 1st mentioned in an English sporting magazine
- 1815King Willem I forms Order of Dutch Lion
- 18491st passenger train service to Peekskill New York (New Haven Railroad)
- 1853Emigrant ship "Annie Jane" sinks off Scotland, drowning 348
- 1859Great auroral display in US
- 1863Opera "Pescatori di Perle" is produced (Paris)
- 1864Battle of Waynesboro and New Market Heights, Virginia
- 1872"3 Fingers" Mackenzie destroys Kwahadi-Commanche village
- 1872Kiowa-chief Lone Wolf captures Satanta and Big Tree
- 1875US-Spanish relations decline in wake of Cuban rebellion
- 1879NL owners meeting in Buffalo adopt reserve clause, giving each team exclusive rights to their players
Born on September 29
- 1402Ferdinand [the Saint]: Portuguese slave of Fez / Saint
- 1511Michael Servetus: Spain -- Physician (Christianism Rostituta)
- 1518Tintoretto: Italian painter
- 1561Roomen: Mathematician
- 1583Johan VIII [the Younger]: Count of Nassau-Siegen / Field Marshal
- 1620John L Baron of Elderen: 63rd Prince-Bishop of Luik (1688-94)
- 1640Antoine Coyzevox: French sculptor, baptized
- 1654Vincenz Lubeck: Composer
- 1674Jacques Hotteterre: Composer
- 1714Peter A van de Parra: Governor-General of the Netherlands Indies (1761-75)
- 1718Nikita I Panin: Russian Earl / diplomat (plot against Peter III)
- 1727Henry Harington: Composer
- 1746Ernst Ludwig Gerber: Composer
- 1753Johann Gottfried Schict: Composer
- 1758Horatio Nelson: Burnham Thorpe, England -- Naval hero (Trafalgar)
- 1794William Michael Rooke: Composer
- 1810Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell: London, England -- Novelist
- 1812Gopel: Mathematician
- 1815Andreas Aschenbach: German painter / engraver
- 1829Bradley Tyler Johnson: Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1903
- 1829Giles Alexander Smith: Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1876
- 1830John Parker Hawkins: Bvt Major General (Union Army), died in 1914
- 1831John McAlister Schofield: Major General (Union volunteers)
- 1838Henry Hobson Richardson: St. James, Louisiana -- Romanesque revival architect
- 1848Caroline Ardelia Yale: United States -- Educated deaf
- 1849Ladislao Joseph Philip Paul Zavrtal: Composer
- 1854Martin Pluddemann: Composer
- 1855Michele Esposito: Composer
- 1857Conrad T van Deventer: Lawyer / 2nd-Member of parliament
- 1858Leopoldo Mugnone: Composer
Died on September 29
- 0855Lotharius I: Romanian-French Emperor (signed Treaty of Verdun)
- 1560Gustaaf I: King of Sweden (1523-60)
- 1575Charles de Boisot: Water beggar, dies in battle at about 45
- 1598Floris I van Pallandt: Earl of Culemborg, dies at about 61
- 1619John Lippershey: Inventor of telescope, buried
- 1800Michael Dennis: Jesuit / author, dies at 71
- 1800William Billings: US Composer (Rose of Sharon), dies at 53
- 1833Ferdinand VII MF: King of Spain
- 1862William "Bull" Nelson: Union General Major, murdered at 38
- 1864Hiram Burnham: US Union Colonel (Chancellorsville), dies in battle
- 1902Iosif Ivanovici: Composer
- 1904Niels Ryberg Finnen: Danish Physician (Nobel 1903)
- 1908Joaquim M Machado de Assis: Brazil writer (Dom Casmurro), dies at 69
- 1913Rudolph C K Diesel: German constructer (Diesel Motor), dies at 55
- 1914Jean Bouin: French marathoner (1912 Olympics - Silver Medalist), dies in battle
- 1915Luther Orlando Emerson: Composer, dies at 95
- 1915Rudi Stephan: Composer, dies at 28
- 1925E Runar Schildt: Finnish writer (Galgmannen), dies at 36
- 1927Willem Einthoven: Dutch physiologist (Nobel-1924), dies at 67
- 1928Arnold Kent
- 1928Lido Manetti
- 1928Steinitz: Mathematician
- 1929Giitji Tanaka: Japanese Baron / General / Premier (1927-29), dies at 66
- 1933Margaret Talmadge
- 1937Ray Ewry: Jumper (1900, 04, 06, 08 Olympics - 10 Gold Medals), dies at 63
- 1939Dickstein: Mathematician
- 1941Friedrich Angel: German Mathematician (group theory), dies at 79
- 1950Balthazar H Verhagen: Neth / South African dramatist / writer
- 1951Bradley Barker
- 1958Aare Merikanto: Composer, dies at 65
Events on Sep 30
- 1199Rambam (Maimonides) authorizes Samuel Ibn Tibbon to translate Guide of Perplexed from Arabic into Hebrew
- 1399King Richard II of England abdicates throne
- 1544King Henry VIII draws his armies out of France
- 1555Oxford Bishop Nicholas Ridley sentenced to death as a heretic
- 1619Remonstrant Society forms in Antwerp
- 1649Last Swedish troops vacate Prague
- 1659Peter Stuyvesant of New Netherlands forbids tennis playing during religious services (1st mention of tennis in US)
- 1659Robinson Crusoe is shipwrecked (according to Defoe)
- 1681Netherlands and Sweden sign treaty
- 1730Duke Victor Amadeus XI of Savoye resigns
- 1777Congress, flees to York Pa, as British forces advance
- 17871st US voyage around the world - Columbia leaves Boston
- 1805Napoleons army draws into the Rhine
- 1808Covent Garden Theatre Royal destroyed by fire
- 1818Congress of Aken: Russia, Austria, Prussia, France and England
- 1841Samuel Slocum patented the stapler
- 1846Anesthetic ether used for 1st time (Dr Wm Morton extracts a tooth)
- 1857US occupies Sand, Baker, Howland and Jarvis Is south of Hawaii
- 1862Battle of Newtonia, Mississippi
- 1864Black Soldiers given Medal of Honor
- 1867Midway Islands formally declared a US possession
- 18771st US amateur swim meet (NY Athletic Club)
- 18781st Portuguese immigrants arrive in Hawaii
- 1880Henry Draper takes that 1st photograph of Orion Nebula
- 1885Bechuanaland becomes a British protectorate
- 1887Start of Sherlock Holmes Adventure "Five Orange Pips" (BG)
- 1888"Jack the Ripper" butchers 2 more women, Liz Stride and Kate Eddowes
- 1895France proclaims a protectorate over Madagascar
- 1898City of New York established
- 1904White Sox lefty Doc White, pitches his 5th shutout in 18 days
Born on Sep 30
- 1622Johann Sebastiani: Composer
- 1627Robinson Crusoe: Fictional character according to Daniel Defoe
- 1685Gunther Jacob Wenceslaus: Composer
- 1743Jeronymo Francisco de Lima: Composer
- 1752Justin Heinrich Knecht: Composer
- 1805Samuel Peter Heintzelman: Major General (Union volunteers)
- 1808Lambertus GC Ledeboer: Dutch vicar (Folies-old Calvinist communities)
- 1824Peter Milne: Composer
- 1827Carlo A Alfieri: Italian MP (Liberal)
- 1827Kenner Garrard: Bvt Major General (Union Army), died in 1879
- 1832Frederick Sleigh "Bobs" Roberts: British Gov of Natal (Ireland-Boer war)
- 1833Ferdinand von Saar: Writer
- 1840Johan Severin Svendsen: Composer
- 1847Wilhelmina E Drucker [Lensing]: Dutch feminist
- 1852Charles Villiers Stanford: Irish Organist / composer
- 1856Andrejs Jurjans: Composer
- 1857Hermann Sudermann: German writer (Honor, That Ehre, Frau Sorge)
- 1862Georgy Eduardovich Konyus: Composer
- 1863Reinhard Scheer: German Admiral (WWI)
- 1870Jean Perrin: France -- Physicist, studied Brownian motion (Nobel 1926)
- 1871John Fabricius: Netherlands -- English stageauthor (Ring of Prophet)
- 1871Ruben Mattias Liljefors: Composer
- 1876Katherine Griffith: San Francisco, California -- Actress (Pollyanna, Fast Company)
- 1879Ernst Isler: Composer
- 1879Henry Casadesus: Composer
- 1882George Bancroft: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania -- Actor (Underworld) / Wife of Octavia Brooke
- 1894Dirk J Bush: Dutch / US mathematician (Concise History of Mathematics)
- 1897Lil Dagover [Marta-Maria Lillits]: Pati Java, Indonesia -- Actress (Spiders)
- 1898Felix Kersten: Baltic-German / Finnish masseuse (Heinrich Himmler)
- 1898Johannes Rontgen: Composer
Died on Sep 30
- 1351Muso Soseki: Zen teacher / Rinzai line / head of Nanzenji, dies in Japan
- 1572Francisco Borgia: Theologist / saint, dies at 61
- 1612Ercole Bottrigari: Composer, dies at 81
- 1630John Billington: Murderer, 1st American execution, hanged
- 1712Johann Michael Zacher: Composer, dies at 61
- 1716Heinrich Georg Neuss: Composer, dies at 62
- 1755Francesco Durante: Composer, dies at 71
- 1803Charles Broche: Composer, dies at 51
- 1811Thomas Percy: English Bishop of Dromore, dies at 82
- 1819Nicolas Roze: Composer, dies at 74
- 1862Isaac Peace Rodman: Banker / Union Brigadier General, dies of injury at about 40
- 1884Louis Lacombe: Composer, dies at 65
- 1885Maria J Small-Gartmann: Actress, dies at 60
- 1888Catherine Eddowes: English, murdered by Jack the Ripper at 45
- 1888Elizabeth Stride: Long Liz, English, murdered by Jack the Ripper at 45
- 1904Sigurd Lie: Composer, dies at 33
- 1912Mary Frances Allitsen: Composer, dies at 63
- 1921Oskar Panizza: Writer, dies at 77
- 1922Paul Barth: German philosopher / sociologist, dies at 64
- 1929Charles E Bonin: French explorer / diplomat (China)
- 1940Walter Kollo: Composer, dies at 62
- 1952Waldorf Astor: House of Lords and Commons / owner of Observer
- 1955James Dean: Actor (Rebel Without a Cause), dies in car crash at 24
- 1958Niels Bjerrum: Danish chemist (ph-stipulation), dies at 79
- 1959John H Kliegl: Developer of Klieg light, dies at 89
- 1959Taylor Holmes: Actor (Gentlemen Prefer Blondes), dies at 81
- 1960Harry St John Philby [sheik Abdullah]: British explorer
- 1963Arnold Foster: Composer, dies at 66
- 1965E[dward] E[lmer] "Doc" Smith: Sci-fi Author (Triplanetary), dies at 75
- 1970Patrick Aherne: Actor (Bwana Devil, Botany Bay), dies at 69