Events on Nov 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 Nov 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 Nov 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

Historical events on November 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 November 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 November 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

Events on Nov 11

• 0537St. Silverius ends his reign as Catholic Pope
• 0887Parliament in Tribur: King Charles III resigns
• 1158Emperor Frederik I Barbarossa declares himself ruler of North Italy
• 1208Otto van Wittelsbach chosen German King
• 12154th Lateran Council (12th ecumenical council) opens in Rome
• 1417Oddo Colonna elected as Pope Martinus V
• 1493Columbus discovers Saba
• 1503Pope Julius II elected
• 1606Turkey and Austria sign Treaty of Zsitva-Torok
• 162041 pilgrims land in Mass, sign Mayflower Compact (just & equal laws)
• 1640John Pym, Earl of Strafford locked in Tower of London
• 1647Massachusetts passes 1st US compulsory school attendance law
• 1648Dutch and French agree to divide St. Maarten, Leeward Islands
• 1671Dutch States-General forbids importation of French wine
• 1714A highway in Bronx is laid out, later renamed East 233rd Street
• 1745Bonnie Prince Charlies army enters England
• 1752Theresianische Military Academy opens in Vienna
• 1778Iroquois Indians in New York kill 40 in Cherry Valley Massacre
• 1790Chrysanthemums are introduced into England from China
• 1811Cartagena Colombia declares independence from Spain
• 1813Dresden surrenders to allied armies
• 1836Chile declares war on Bolivia and Peru
• 1838Emma Wedgwood accepts Charles Darwins marriage proposal
• 1851Alvan Clark patents telescope
• 18601st Jewish wedding in Buenos Aires Argentina
• 1862Opera "La Forza Del Destino" is produced (St Petersburg Russia)
• 1864Skirmish at Shoal Creek, Alabama
• 1865Mary Edward Walker, 1st Army female surgeon, awarded Medal of Honor
• 1865Thomas Robertsons "Society, " premieres in London
• 18681st American amateur track and field meet (NYC)

Born on Nov 11

• 1154Sancho I: King of Portugal (1185-1211)
• 1155Alfonso VIII [the Noble One]: King of Castilia
• 1523Joachim Hopperus [Hoppers]: Frisian lawyer / politician
• 1579Frans Snyders: Flemish animal painter
• 1599Ottavio Piccolomini: Italian / Spanish marshal
• 1633George Savile: 1st Marquis of Halifax / author (Character of a Trimmer)
• 1657Guido Starhemberg: Austria -- Earl / Field Marshal (Turkish Wars)
• 1679Firmin Abauzit: French huguenot / Scientist
• 1688Lorenzo Somis: Composer
• 1690Gerhard Hoffmann: Composer
• 1696Andrea Zani: Composer
• 1722Johann Philipp Sack: Composer
• 1724Willem A Alting: Governor-General of the Netherlands Indies (1780-97)
• 1731Carl Joseph Toeschi: Composer
• 1736Johann H Schepp: German / Netherlands engraver
• 1744Abigail Smith Adams: 2nd 1st lady (1797-1801)
• 1767Bernhard Romberg: German cellist / composer / royal chaplain bandmaster
• 1771Ephraim McDowell: Surgeon (pioneered abdominal surgery)
• 1788Michal Wielhorski: Composer
• 1811Ben McCulloch: Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1862
• 1821F M Dostojewski: Writer
• 1821Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoyevsky: Russia -- Novelist (Crime & Punishment)
• 1832Paolo Giorza: Composer
• 1836Thomas Bailey Aldrich: United States -- Author / editor (Story of a Bad Boy)
• 1864Alfred Hermann Fried: Germany -- Pacifist (Nobel 1911)
• 1868Edouard Vuillard: French painter / graphic artist
• 1869Victor Emmanuel III: King of Italy (1900-46) / Ethiopia
• 1883Ernest Ansermet: Vevey, Switzerland -- Conductor (Ruilles de Printemps)
• 1885George S Patton: US General (Sicily / Italy / Normandy) "Old Blood and Guts"
• 1887Roland Young: London, England

Died on Nov 11

• 0307Flavius Valerius Severus: Compassionate Emperor of Rome (306-07)
• 0397Martinus: (St Maarten), Roman Bishop of Tours, dies at about 81
• 0826Theodorus Studites: Byzantine Theologist / Poet / saint
• 1150Hartbert: Bishop of Utrecht (1140-50)
• 1331Stefanus VIII Uros III Decanski: King of Serbia (1322-31)
• 1528Lucas van Prague: Czech leader of Bohemian Brothers, dies at about 68
• 1638Cornelis Cornelisz: "of Haarlem", painter, dies at about 76
• 1641Ferdinand van Austrian: Cardinal of Spain
• 1755Johan van de Bergh: Leids regent, dies at 91
• 1772John Mauritius Quinkhard: Portrait painter, dies at 84
• 1810Johann Zoffany: Painter, dies at 77
• 1895Julius Tausch: Composer, dies at 68
• 1901Antonio Zamara: Composer, dies at 72
• 1907Henry Gadsby: Composer, dies at 64
• 1912Jose Canalejas Y Mendez: Premier Spain, murdered
• 1912Joseph Wieniawski: Composer, dies at 75
• 1917Liliuokalani: Last Queen of Hawaii (1891-93), dies from a stroke at 79
• 1918Victor Adler: Austrian neurologist / foreign minister
• 1929Mieczyslaw Soltys: Composer, dies at 66
• 1936Edward German: Composer, dies at 74
• 1942Anton H Blaauw: Botanist (Perception of the Lichtes), dies at 60
• 1942Hector Abbas: Actor / director (Rosa Lynd Company), dies at 58
• 1945Jerome Kern: US Composer (Sally, Leave it to Jane), dies at 60
• 1947Martin Dibelius: German Theologist (That Drawer Jahwes), dies at 64
• 1954John Rosamund Johnson: Composer, dies at 81
• 1955John Loudon: Dutch Minister of Foreign Affairs (1913-18), dies at 87
• 1956Victor Young: Orchestra leader (Milton Berle Show), dies at 56
• 1962Joseph Allen, Jr.: Actor (All Women Have Secrets), dies at 44
• 1964Edward Steuermann: Composer, dies at 72
• 1964H[enry] Beam Piper: United States -- Sci-fi Author (4 Day Planet), dies at 60