Page 2: Historical Events In October - 02

1700  Spanish king Carlos II appoints Philip van Anjou, heir to throne on this day in history.   

1704  On this day in history frantisek Ignac Antonin Tuma, composer   

1707  On October - 02 anne Jules duke the Noailles, marshal of France (huguenot), dies at 57   

1715  Peter II, czar of Russia (1727-30) on this day in history.   

1721  Benott Audran, artist/engraver, dies on this day in history.   

1729  On October - 02 arnold Boonen, portrait painter, dies at 60   

1737  On this day in history franz Schneider, composer   

1746  Josiah Burchett, English Secretary of the Admiralty on October - 02.   

1752  On this day in history samuel Story, Dutch admiral (Battle at Kamperduin)   

1756  On October - 02 jacob van Strij, Dutch cartoonist/graphic artist   

1760  Russian/Austrian army evacuates Berlin [NS=10/13] on this day in history.   

1764  On this day in history william Cavendish, 4th Duke of Devonshire, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom   

1780  On this day in history john Andre British major, hanged by Americans (spied with B Arnold), dies at 30   

1780  On October - 02 john Andre, British major, hanged by Americans (spied with B Arnold)   

1786  On October - 02 august Keppel, 1st viscount/naval commander/politican, dies   

1787  On October - 02 maagden House opens in Amsterdam   

1788  HMAS Sirius sets out from Port Jackson, Australia, to Cape Town for provisions on October - 02.   

1789  George Washington transmits the proposed Constitutional amendments (The United States Bill of Rights) to the States for ratification on October - 02.   

1792  On this day in history baptist Missionary Society forms in London   

1792  Philip Cipriani Hambley Potter, pianist/composer on this day in history.   

1795  On this day in history tula (leader slave uprising) sentence to death in Curacao   

1799  On October - 02 duke of York & Russians capture Alkmaar in Netherlands   

1800  On October - 02 nat Turner, Virginia, leader of major slave rebellion (1831)   

1803  On this day in history samuel Adams, US revolutionary (Boston Massacre-Tea Party), dies at 81   

1804  England mobilizes to protect against French invasion on October - 02.   

1809  Anton Emil Titl, composer on October - 02.   

1809  On October - 02 wybo Fijnje, politician/patriot/journalist, dies at 59   

1817  On this day in history gunnar Wennerberg, composer   

1819  George Washington Getty, Bvt Major General (Union Army), died in 1901 on October - 02.   

1821  Alexander Peter "Old Straight" Stewart, Lt Gen (Confederate Army) on October - 02.   

1822  Joannes Kappeyne van de Coppello, Dutch Internal minister (1877-79) on this day in history.   

1823  On October - 02 daniel Steibelt, composer, dies at 57 [OS=Sept 20]   

1827  On October - 02 edmund Jackson Davis, Brig General (Union volunteers), died in 1883   

1832  Edward Burnett Tylor, English anthropologist on October - 02.   

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1452  On October - 02 birth of king Richard III, of England (1483-85)   

1470  On October - 02 birth of isabella of Naples, Duchess of Milan (d. 1524)   

1538  On this day in history birth of saint Charles Borromeo, Italian cardinal (d. 1584)   

1595  Jacob Louys, Flemish engraver was born on October - 02.   

1616  A Gryphius, writer was born on October - 02.   

1644  François-Timoléon de Choisy, French writer (d. 1724) was born on October - 02.   

1646  Guillaume Poitevin, composer was born on this day in history.   

1704  On October - 02 birth of frantisek Ignac Antonin Tuma, composer   

0472  Olybrius, emperor of Westromeinse republic (472), dies on this day in history.   

0939  On October - 02 death of giselbert, duke of Lutheran, drowns at about 49   

1113  On October - 02 mawdoed, Selchuk emir/governor of Mosul, dies   

1264  On October - 02 urbanus IV, [Jacques Pantaleon], French Pope (1261-64), dies   

1517  John Murmelius, humanist/theory/school book writer, dies at about 37 on October - 02.   

1559  Death of Jacquet of Mantua, French composer (b. 1483) on October - 02.   

1564  Andreas Vesalius, [Andries of Wesel], Flemish anatomist, dies at 49 on this day in history.   

1588  On October - 02 bernardino Telesio, Italian philosopher (Rerum in Child), dies