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  On this day in history benott Audran, artist/engraver, dies   

1729  On this day in history arnold Boonen, portrait painter, dies at 60   

1737  Franz Schneider, composer on October - 02.   

1746  Josiah Burchett, English Secretary of the Admiralty on this day in history.   

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

1756  Jacob van Strij, Dutch cartoonist/graphic artist on this day in history.   

1760  Russian/Austrian army evacuates Berlin [NS=10/13] on October - 02.   

1764  William Cavendish, 4th Duke of Devonshire, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom on this day in history.   

1780  John Andre British major, hanged by Americans (spied with B Arnold), dies at 30 on October - 02.   

1780  John Andre, British major, hanged by Americans (spied with B Arnold) on October - 02.   

1786  August Keppel, 1st viscount/naval commander/politican, dies on this day in history.   

1787  Maagden House opens in Amsterdam on October - 02.   

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

1789  George Washington transmits the proposed Constitutional amendments (The United States Bill of Rights) to the States for ratification on this day in history.   

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

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  Samuel Adams, US revolutionary (Boston Massacre-Tea Party), dies at 81 on October - 02.   

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

1809  On October - 02 anton Emil Titl, composer   

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

1817  Gunnar Wennerberg, composer on October - 02.   

1819  On this day in history george Washington Getty, Bvt Major General (Union Army), died in 1901   

1821  On October - 02 alexander Peter "Old Straight" Stewart, Lt Gen (Confederate Army)   

1822  Joannes Kappeyne van de Coppello, Dutch Internal minister (1877-79) on October - 02.   

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

1827  Edmund Jackson Davis, Brig General (Union volunteers), died in 1883 on October - 02.   

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 this day in history.   

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

1616  On October - 02 birth of a Gryphius, writer   

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

1646  Guillaume Poitevin, composer was born on October - 02.   

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

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

0939  Death of Giselbert, duke of Lutheran, drowns at about 49 on this day in history.   

1113  Mawdoed, Selchuk emir/governor of Mosul, dies on October - 02.   

1264  Urbanus IV, [Jacques Pantaleon], French Pope (1261-64), dies on this day in history.   

1517  On this day in history john Murmelius, humanist/theory/school book writer, dies at about 37   

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 October - 02.   

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