This day in History - October 1

507 Historic Events for October 1
290 Death [Christian] Bacchus, roman soldier/martyred saint, killed
366 Event St Damasus I begins his reign as Catholic Pope
540 Death Vedastus St Vaast, 1st bishop of Atrecht/saint, dies
552 Death Teja, king of Ostrogoten, dies in battle
704 Event Aengibald gives away bishop Willibrord estate in Waalre
965 Event John XIII Crescentii elected to succeed Pope Leo VIII
976 Death Al-Hakam II, Moors kalief of C¢rdoba, dies
1207 Birth Henry III, king of England (1216-72)
1273 Event Earl Rudolf van Habsburg becomes Roman Catholics-German king
1404 Death Boniface IX, [Pietro Tomacelli], Pope (1389-1404), dies
1529 Event -3] Meeting between Maarten Luther and Huldrych Zwingli
1549 Birth Anna of H Bartolomaeus, Flemish prioress/founded a nunnery
1569 Event Duke of Norfolk arrested
1574 Event -2] Storm breaks Leiden dike; drowns 20,000 Spanish soldiers
1574 Death Maarten van Heemskerck, painter (Christ), dies
1578 Death Don Juan d'Austria, Spanish land guardian of Netherlands, dies at 31
1602 Death Hernando de Cabezon, composer, dies at 61
1606 Event Spanish troops under Sp¡nola occupies fort Rhine birch
1620 Birth Nicolaes Pietersz Berchem, Dutch landscape painter/etcher
1632 Event Battle at Castelnaudary: Duke Henri de Montmorency's rebel army loses
1633 Death Filaret, [Fjodor N Romanov], patriarch of Moscow, dies
1644 Birth Alessandro Stradella, Italian violinist/composer
1644 Birth Jean Rousseau, composer
1653 Event Russian parliament accepts annexation of Ukraine
1657 Event Treaty of Raalte: Willem II no longer viceroy of Overijssel