Historical Events In October - 02

1700  Spanish king Carlos II appoints Philip van Anjou, heir to throne on October - 02.   

1704  On October - 02 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 October - 02.   

1721  Benott Audran, artist/engraver, dies on October - 02.   

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

1737  Franz Schneider, composer on this day in history.   

1746  On October - 02 josiah Burchett, English Secretary of the Admiralty   

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

1756  On this day in history jacob van Strij, Dutch cartoonist/graphic artist   

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

1764  William Cavendish, 4th Duke of Devonshire, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom on October - 02.   

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

1780  John Andre, British major, hanged by Americans (spied with B Arnold) on this day in history.   

1786  August Keppel, 1st viscount/naval commander/politican, dies on October - 02.   

1787  Maagden House opens in Amsterdam on October - 02.   

1788  On this day in history hMAS Sirius sets out from Port Jackson, Australia, to Cape Town for provisions.   

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

1792  Baptist Missionary Society forms in London on October - 02.   

1792  On October - 02 philip Cipriani Hambley Potter, pianist/composer   

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  Nat Turner, Virginia, leader of major slave rebellion (1831) on this day in history.   

1803  On October - 02 samuel Adams, US revolutionary (Boston Massacre-Tea Party), dies at 81   

1804  On October - 02 england mobilizes to protect against French invasion   

1809  Anton Emil Titl, composer on this day in history.   

1809  Wybo Fijnje, politician/patriot/journalist, dies at 59 on October - 02.   

1817  Gunnar Wennerberg, composer on this day in history.   

1819  On October - 02 george Washington Getty, Bvt Major General (Union Army), died in 1901   

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

1822  On this day in history joannes Kappeyne van de Coppello, Dutch Internal minister (1877-79)   

1823  Daniel Steibelt, composer, dies at 57 [OS=Sept 20] on October - 02.   

1827  Edmund Jackson Davis, Brig General (Union volunteers), died in 1883 on this day in history.   

1832  On this day in history edward Burnett Tylor, English anthropologist   

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1452  King Richard III, of England (1483-85) was born on October - 02.   

1470  Isabella of Naples, Duchess of Milan (d. 1524) was born on this day in history.   

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

1595  On this day in history birth of jacob Louys, Flemish engraver   

1616  A Gryphius, writer was born on this day in history.   

1644  On October - 02 birth of françois-Timoléon de Choisy, French writer (d. 1724)   

1646  On October - 02 birth of guillaume Poitevin, composer   

1704  Frantisek Ignac Antonin Tuma, composer was born on October - 02.   

0472  On October - 02 olybrius, emperor of Westromeinse republic (472), dies   

0939  On this day in history death of giselbert, duke of Lutheran, drowns at about 49   

1113  On this day in history mawdoed, Selchuk emir/governor of Mosul, dies   

1264  Urbanus IV, [Jacques Pantaleon], French Pope (1261-64), dies on October - 02.   

1517  John Murmelius, humanist/theory/school book writer, dies at about 37 on this day in history.   

1559  Death of Jacquet of Mantua, French composer (b. 1483) on this day in history.   

1564  Andreas Vesalius, [Andries of Wesel], Flemish anatomist, dies at 49 on October - 02.   

1588  On this day in history bernardino Telesio, Italian philosopher (Rerum in Child), dies