Events on Nov 8

• 0392Emperor Theodosius declares Christian religion, state religion
• 0618St. Deusdedit I ends his reign as Catholic Pope
• 0911Duke Koenraad I chosen German King
• 1322Pope John XXII names John van Diest, Bishop of Utrecht
• 1575French Roman Catholics and Huguenots signs treaty
• 1576Pacificatie of Gent: 17 Dutch provinces signs anti-Spanish covenant
• 1598Spanish troops under of Bernardino de Mendoza conquer Doetinchem
• 1620Battle of White Mountain, Prague
• 1638Anne Hutchinson banished from Massachusetts
• 1658Battle of Sont: Swedish fleet beats Dutch
• 1701William Penn presents Charter of Priviliges
• 1731In Philadelphia, Benjamin Franklin opens 1st US library
• 1734Cook Vincent la Chapelle forms Freemasons Lodge
• 1789Bourbon Whiskey, 1st distilled from corn (by Elijah Craig, Bourbon Ky)
• 1793Louvre in Paris, opens
• 1805Lewis and Clark reach Pacific Ocean
• 1833Train derails at Hightstown NJ; 2 die
• 1837Mount Holyoke Seminary in Mass-1st US college founded for women
• 1842Belgium King Leopold I proclaims child labor laws (for 1889)
• 1861Battle of Mount Ivy, Kentucky
• 1861US removes Confederate officials from British steamer Trent
• 1864Abraham Lincoln (R) elected to his 2nd term as President
• 1870Democratic Governor elected in Tennessee
• 1883English freighter Nisero stranded at Atjeh (crew taken hostage)
• 1889Montana admitted as 41st state
• 1892Grover Cleveland (D) elected President
• 1895Wilhelm Roentgen (Germany) discovers X-rays
• 1904President Theodore Roosevelt (R) defeats Alton B Parker (D)
• 19101st Washington State election in which women could vote
• 1917Telephone Co runs 1st ad for Army operators, gets 7,000 applicants

Born on Nov 8

• 1572Johan Sigismund: Elector of Brandenburg / Duke of Prussia
• 1590Francesco Gonzaga: Composer
• 1592Domenico Mazzocchi: Composer
• 1622Karl X Gustaf: King of Sweden (1654-60)
• 1647Pierre Bayle: French / Netherlands theologist / philosopher / writer
• 1693Leonhard Trautsch: Composer
• 1715Elisabeth C van Brunswick-Bevern: Wife of Frederik II "the Great"
• 1760Jean-Baptiste Dumonceau de Bergendael: South Netherlands Earl / General
• 1770Friedrich Witt: Composer
• 1785Friedrich Wilhelm Michael Kalkbrenner: Composer
• 1814Girolamo / Jeromin de Rada: Albanian poet (Skanderbeku)
• 1817Claudius Wistar Sears: Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1891
• 1817Theodoor J Canneel: Flemish painter
• 1829Samuel Wylie Crawford: Bvt Major General (Union Army), died in 1892
• 1830Oliver Otis Howard: Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1909
• 1831Edward R L Bulwer-Lytton: English under King of India
• 1848Gottlob Frege: Germany -- Mathematician / logician (Begriffsschrift)
• 1849Edward Julius Biedermann: Composer
• 1867Ilmari Henrik Reinhold Krohn: Composer
• 1876Frank L Gillespie: Arkansas, United States -- Founded Supreme Life Insurance Company
• 1878Marshall Walter "Major" Taylor: World champion cyclist (1899)
• 1879King Baggot I: St. Louis, Missouri -- Director (Tumbleweeds)
• 1882Lazare Saminsky: Composer
• 1883Arnold Edward Trevor Bax: London, England -- Composer (Farewell My Youth)
• 1883Ethel Clayton: Missouri, United States -- Actress (Hotel Continental)
• 1887Yury Alexandrovich Shaporin: Composer
• 1888David Monrad Johansen: Composer
• 1893John Miljan: Lead City, South Dakota -- Actor (Possessed, Final Extra, Susan Lenox)
• 1895Hermann Schey: German / Netherlands singer
• 1896Bucky Harris: Baseball manager (Phillies, Yankees)

Died on Nov 8

• 0397Martin of Tours [St Martin]: Bishop of Tours
• 0618Deusdedit / Adeodatus I: Italian Pope (615-18)
• 1226Louis VIII [the Lion]: King of France (1223-26), dies at 39
• 1228Dirk I: Ruler of Heinsberg / Valkenburg
• 1308Duns Scotus: Scottish philosopher (coined the word dunce), dies at 42
• 1494Melozzo da Forli: Italian painter, dies at about 56
• 1517Francisco Jimenez de Cisneros: Cardinal / Chancellor of Castilia
• 1578Johann Walter: Composer, dies at 51
• 1590Joost Jansz Bilhamer: Master builder / cartographer, dies at about 49
• 1595Peter Opmeer: Church Historian / humanist, dies at 69
• 1638Johann H Alsted: German Theologist / philosopher, dies at 50
• 1658Pieter Florisz: Dutch Admiral, dies in battle at about 50
• 1658Witte de With: Dutch Vice-Admiral, dies in battle at 59
• 1674John Milton: English Poet (Paradise Lost), dies at 65
• 1694Ulrik Huber: Frisian lawyer / law Historian / polemist, dies at 58
• 1757Pierre Prowo: Composer, dies at 60
• 1811Charles F Bentinck: Dutch Minister of Colonies, dies at 47
• 1817Andrea Appiana: Italian royal Painter of Napoleon, dies at 63
• 1833Maximilian Stadler: Composer, dies at 85
• 1873Manuel Breton de los Herreros: Spanish Poet / comic playwright, dies at 76
• 1880Jacob Edvard Gille: Composer, dies at 66
• 1885Johannes Kneppelhout [Klikspaan]: Dutch humorist / author, dies at 71
• 1886Frederick J "Fred" Archer: English jockey, commits suicide at 29
• 1908Victorien Sardou: French opera Author (Madame Sans-Gene), dies at 77
• 1909Charles Bordes: Composer, dies at 46
• 1909Eduard de Hartog: Composer, dies at 80
• 1920Abraham Kuyper: Clergyman / Dutch Premier (AR 1908-12), dies at 83
• 1920Salomon Anski: Russian / Polish yiddish Author (Dibboek), dies at 57
• 1924Sergey Mikhaylovich Lyapunov: Composer, dies at 64
• 1928Mauritz Stiller: Swedish actor / director (Streets of sin), dies at 45

Historical events on November 9

• 0694Spanish King Egica accuses Jews of aiding Moslems / sentenced to slavery
• 1492Peace of Etaples (Henry VII & Charles VIII)
• 1520Swedish King Christian II executes 600 nobles
• 1526Jews are expelled from Pressburg Hungary by Maria of Hapsburg
• 1541Queen Catharine Howard confined in London Tower
• 1569Catholic uprising under Northumberland and Westmoreland
• 1580Spanish troops lands in Ireland
• 1673British King Charles II fires Earl of Shaftesbury
• 1681Hungarian parliament promises protestants freedom of religion
• 1720Rabbi Yehuda Hasid synagogue set afire
• 1729Spain, France and England signs Treaty of Seville
• 1794Russian troops occupy Warsaw
• 1799Napoleon becomes Dictator (1st consul) of France
• 18211st US pharmacy college holds 1st classes, Philadelphia
• 1848Post office at Clay and Pike opens
• 1853Origin of Carrington rotation numbers for rotation of Sun
• 1857Atlantic Monthly magazine 1st published
• 18581st performance of New York Symphony Orchestra
• 18611st documented Canadian football game (at University of Toronto)
• 1861Battle of Piketon, Kentucky
• 1862US Grant issues orders to bar Jews from serving under him
• 18641st export of goods from Burrard Inlet, BC to a foreign country
• 1864Sherman issues preliminary plans for his "March to the Sea"
• 1865Confederate General Lee surrenders to Union General Grant at Appomattox
• 1872Fire destroys nearly 1,000 buildings in Boston
• 1877American Chemical Society chartered in New York
• 1885Opera "Ermine, " premieres in London
• 1899Boerenaanval up Ladysmith, Natal, attack
• 19041st airplane flight to last more than 5 minutes
• 1905Swedish mine workers win 5 month strike for minimum wages

Born on November 9

• 1414Albrecht III Achilles: Elector of Brandenburg
• 1541Menso Alting: Dutch reformed vicar / theologist
• 1656Paul Aler: French Jesuit / poet (Gradus ad Parnassum)
• 1664Johannes Speth: Composer
• 1697Claudio Casciolini: Composer
• 1710Reynier de Klerk: Governor-General of Dutch-Indies
• 1731Benjamin Banneker: Ellicott, Maryland -- Black mathematician / surveyor (Washington, DC)
• 1760Henri-Philippe Gerard: Composer
• 1795Walter Geikie: Scottish painter
• 1802Elijah P Lovejoy: American newspaper publisher / abolitionist
• 1809Albert Taylor Bledsoe: Confederate States Assistant Secretary of War, died in 1877
• 1810Thomas Bragg: Attorney General (Confederacy), died in 1872
• 1812Paul Abadie: French master builder (renovated Notre Dame)
• 1817Edward Richard Sprigg Canby: Major General (Union volunteers)
• 1820Matthias de Vries: Dutch linguist (spelling)
• 1821Jean-Baptiste Theodore Weckerlin: Composer
• 1823William Henry Forney: Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1894
• 1825Ambrose Powell Hill: Lieutenant General (Confederate 3rd Army Corp), died in 1865
• 1835Davorin Jenko: Composer
• 1835Emile Gaboriau: Author (father of French detective novels)
• 1835Jean-Theodore Radoux: Composer
• 1837Alfred Holmes: Composer
• 1837Gerrit Jan van Heek: Textile factory / politician
• 1841[Albert] Edward VII: King of England (1901-10)
• 1850Lewis Lewin: Germany -- Toxicologist / father of psychopharmacologist
• 1854Joseph Miroslav Weber: Composer
• 1868Emmanuel K de Bom: Flemish author (Wrakken)
• 1869Marie Dressler [Leila M Koerber]: Cobourg, Ontario -- Actress (Caught Short)
• 1871Florence Sabin: Scientist / 1st woman to graduate from Johns Hopkins
• 1877Allama Iqbal: Pakistani poet / philosopher

Died on November 9

• 0959Constantine VII Porphyrogenitus: Byzantine Emperor (913-59)
• 1580Gaspar Schetz: South Netherlands, minster of chief treasurer, dies at 67
• 1623William Camden: English historian: Brittania / Annales, dies at 72
• 1677Aert van der Neer: Dutch landscape painter, dies at about 73
• 1754Johann Christoph Fravenholtz: Composer, dies at 70
• 1778Giovanni Battista Piranesi: Italian etcher, dies at 58
• 1801Carl Philipp Stamitz: Composer, dies at 56
• 1829Jean Xavier Lefevre: Composer, dies at 66
• 1848Robert Blum: German MP (Liberal), executed
• 1862John Bordenave Villepigue: US Confederate Brigadier General, dies at 32
• 1874Israel Bak: Created 1st Hebrew printing press
• 1897Moritz Heuzenroeder: Composer, dies at 48
• 1911Edmund Schuecker: Composer, dies at 50
• 1918Guillaume Apollinaire [Kostrowitsky]: Fr Poet (Alcools), dies at 38
• 1927Ole Olsen: Composer, dies at 77
• 1932Nadya Aliluieva: Wife of Joseph Stalin, dies at 30
• 1939Dirk Klop: Dutch intelligence lt, shot by German Abwehr
• 1942Edna May Oliver: Dies on 59th birthday
• 1943Bernhard Lichtenberg: German clergyman / antifascist, dies at 67
• 1948Edgar Kennedy: Actor (Little Orphan Annie), dies at 58
• 1951Resurreccion Maria de Azkue: Composer, dies at 87
• 1951Sigmund Romberg: Hungarian / US Composer (Blossom Time), dies at 64
• 1952Chaim Weizmann: Bio-chemist / 1st President Israel, dies at 77
• 1953Dylan Thomas: Author-poet (Adventures in the Skin Trade), dies in New York at 39
• 1955Tom Powers: Actor (Station West, Destination Moon), dies at 65
• 1959Frederick Preston Search: Composer, dies at 70
• 1967Charles Bickford: Actor (Johnny Belinda, Virginian), dies at 78
• 1968Jan Johansson: Composer, dies at 37
• 1970William L Dawson: (Rep-D-Ill), dies at 84
• 1971Maude Fealy: Drama coach, dies at 90

Events on Nov 10

• 0461St. Leo I ends his reign as Catholic Pope
• 0911Conrad I elecect German King
• 1444Battle at Varna, Black Sea: Sultan Murad II beats crusaders
• 1544Antwerps Painter John Matsys banished
• 1567Battle at St-Denis: French government army vs. Huguenots
• 1584Willem Louis of Nassau appointed Viceroy of Friesland
• 1630Failed palace revolution against Richelieu France
• 1674Dutch formally cede New Netherlands (NY) to English
• 1687Pope Innocent XI publishes decree Coelestis pastor
• 1697English parliament accept army reduction
• 1775Congress forms US Marine Corps
• 1785Netherlands and France signs treaty
• 1793France ends forced worship of God
• 1801Kentucky outlaws dueling
• 1808Osage Treaty signed
• 1834HMS Beagle / Charles Darwin sails from Valparaiso
• 1836Louis Napoleon banished to America
• 1864Austrian Archduke Maximilian became Emperor of Mexico
• 1866Gold coins from the Sydney Mint become legal tender in Canada
• 1871Stanley presumes to meet Livingston in Ujiji, Central Africa
• 1883Toronto Argonauts defeat Ottawa FC 9-7, for 1st ORFU Championship
• 1891Granville T Woods patents electric railway
• 18921st CRU championship game: Osgoode Hall defeats Montreal, 45-5
• 1894Fred Lugard signs accord with King Lafia "Absalamu" of Nikki
• 1898Race riot in Wilmington NC (8 blacks killed)
• 1905Sailors revolt in Kronstadt Russia
• 19081st Gideon Bible put in a hotel room
• 1911Andrew Carnegie forms Carnegie Corp (for scholarly & charitable works)
• 1911Imperial army recaptures Nanking (blood bath)
• 191741 suffragists are arrested in front of White House

Born on Nov 10

• 1433Charles of Charolais [the Bold]: Duke of Burgundy / polyglot
• 1483Martin Luther: Eisleben, Germany -- Founded Protestantism
• 1566Robert Devereux: 2nd Earl of Essex / cousin / lover of Elizabeth I
• 1577Jacob Cats [Father Cats]: Dutch grand pensionary / poet (Houwelyck)
• 1636Francesco Passarini: Composer
• 1668Francois Couperin: Paris, France -- Composer / Organist (Concerts Royaux)
• 1679Johann Christian Schieferdecker: Composer
• 1694Jean-Laurent Krafft: Composer
• 1704Carlo Zuccari: Composer
• 1719Georg Philipp Kress: Composer
• 1730Oliver Goldsmith: Ireland -- Novelist / dramatist (She Stoops to Conquer)
• 1759Frederich von Schiller: Germany -- Poet / lyricist (Ode to Joy)
• 1772Jan Nepomuk Kanka: Composer
• 1786Carl Eberwein: Composer
• 1793Jared Kirtland: United States -- Physician / naturalist / reformed penitentiaries
• 1811Louis Kufferath: Composer
• 1819Cyrus West Field: Financier / success of 1st transatlantic cable
• 1827Alfred Howe Terry: Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1890
• 1830Albert Gallatin Jenkins: Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1864
• 1833Dobri Voynikov: Composer
• 1834Wager Swayne: Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1902
• 1844John S D Thompson: (C), 4th Prime Minister of Canada (1892-94)
• 1846Martin Wegelius: Finnish musicologist / composer
• 1846Paul Kuczynski: Composer
• 1855Josiah Royce: United States -- Philosopher (conception of God)
• 1861Robert T A Innes: Edinburgh, Scotland -- Astronomer (Proxima Centauri)
• 1864Alexandre Levy: Composer
• 1873Henri Rabnaud: Paris, France -- Composer (Le Premer Glaire)
• 1875Maude Eburne: Canada -- Actress (Ladies They Talk About, Guardsman)
• 1879Nicholas Vachel Lindsay: United States -- Poet (Gen William Booth enters Heaven)

Died on Nov 10

• 0461Leo I the Great: Italian Pope (440-61)
• 1241Celestine IV [Goffredo Castiglioni]: Pope (1241, 16 days)
• 1285Pedro III: King of Aragon
• 1299Jan I: Count of Holland / Zeeland (1295-99), dies at 15
• 1444Wladyslaw III Warnenczyk: King of Poland / Hungary, dies in battle at 20
• 1549Paul III [Alessandro Farnese]: Italian Pope (1534-49), dies at 81
• 1665Samuel Friedrich Capricornus: Composer, dies at 36
• 1670Geory Horn [Hornius]: Theologist / historian, dies at about 50
• 1673Michael Korybut Wisniowiecki: King of Poland (16..-73)
• 1779Joseph Hewes: US Merchant / signer (Declaration of Independence), dies at 49
• 1821Andreas J Romberg: German violinist / Composer (Der Rabe), dies at 54
• 1865Henry Wards: Confederate prison supt, executed for excessive cruelty
• 1891JN Arthur Rimbaud: Poet / arms Merchant (Saison en Enfer), dies at 37
• 1909Ludvig Schytte: Composer, dies at 61
• 1937Nikolai Batalov: Actor (Mother), dies at 37
• 1940Arthur Neville Chamberlain: British Premier (1937-40), dies at 71
• 1948Julius Curtius: German Foreign Minister (1929- ), dies at 71
• 1954Hussein Fatemi: Iran Foreign minister, executed
• 1959Lupino Lane: Actress (Deputy Drummer), dies at 67
• 1960Isadore Freed: Composer, dies at 60
• 1963Otto Flake: Writer
• 1968Gerald Mohr: Actor (Christopher-Foreign Intrigue), dies at 54
• 1970Charles DeGaulle: General / President France (Free French), dies at 79
• 1971Walter Van Tilburg Clark: US Author (Ox-Bow Incident), dies at 62
• 1978Linda Scott: Actress (Escape from Hell Island), dies at 28
• 1978Theo Lingen: Actor (Grosse Gluck), dies at 75
• 1979Friedrich Thorberg: Writer, dies at 71
• 1982Elio Petri: Italian director (Workers Class), dies at 53
• 1982Leonid Ilich Brezhnev: Soviet 1st Secretary, dies of a heart attack at 77
• 1984Sudie Bond: Actress (Tomorrow), dies at 56 of a respiratory ailment