Page 2: Historical Events In October - 02

1700  Spanish king Carlos II appoints Philip van Anjou, heir to throne.   

1704  Frantisek Ignac Antonin Tuma, composer.   

1707  Anne Jules duke the Noailles, marshal of France (huguenot), dies at 57   

1715  Peter II, czar of Russia (1727-30).   

1721  Benott Audran, artist/engraver, dies   

1729  Arnold Boonen, portrait painter, dies at 60   

1737  Franz Schneider, composer.   

1746  Josiah Burchett, English Secretary of the Admiralty.   

1752  Samuel Story, Dutch admiral (Battle at Kamperduin)   

1756  Jacob van Strij, Dutch cartoonist/graphic artist   

1760  Russian/Austrian army evacuates Berlin [NS=10/13].   

1764  William Cavendish, 4th Duke of Devonshire, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.   

1780  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).   

1786  August Keppel, 1st viscount/naval commander/politican, dies.   

1787  Maagden House opens in Amsterdam   

1788  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   

1792  Baptist Missionary Society forms in London   

1792  Philip Cipriani Hambley Potter, pianist/composer   

1795  Tula (leader slave uprising) sentence to death in Curacao.   

1799  Duke of York and Russians capture Alkmaar in Netherlands.   

1800  Nat Turner, Virginia, leader of major slave rebellion (1831).   

1803  Samuel Adams, US revolutionary (Boston Massacre-Tea Party), dies at 81.   

1804  England mobilizes to protect against French invasion.   

1809  Anton Emil Titl, composer   

1809  Wybo Fijnje, politician/patriot/journalist, dies at 59.   

1817  Gunnar Wennerberg, composer.   

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

1821  Alexander Peter "Old Straight" Stewart, Lt Gen (Confederate Army)   

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

1823  Daniel Steibelt, composer, dies at 57 [OS=Sept 20].   

1827  Edmund Jackson Davis, Brig General (Union volunteers), died in 1883.   

1832  Edward Burnett Tylor, English anthropologist.   

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1452  King richard iii: Of england (1483-85)   

1470  Isabella of naples: Duchess of milan   

1538  Saint charles borromeo: Italian cardinal   

1595  Jacob louys: Flemish engraver   

1616  A gryphius: Writer   

1644  François-timoléon de choisy: French writer   

1646  Guillaume poitevin: Composer   

1704  Frantisek ignac antonin tuma: Composer   

0472  Olybrius: Emperor of westromeinse republic (472),   

0939  Giselbert: Duke of lutheran, drowns at about 49   

1113  Death of Mawdoed: Selchuk emir/governor of mosul,   

1264  Urbanus iv: [jacques pantaleon], french pope (1261-64),   

1517  Death of John murmelius: Humanist/theory/school book writer,   

1559  Death of Jacquet of mantua: French composer (b. 1483)   

1564  Death of Andreas vesalius: [andries of wesel], flemish anatomist,   

1588  Bernardino telesio: Italian philosopher (rerum in child),