Page 2: Historical Events In October - 02

1700  On October - 02 spanish king Carlos II appoints Philip van Anjou, heir to throne   

1704  On October - 02 frantisek Ignac Antonin Tuma, composer   

1707  Anne Jules duke the Noailles, marshal of France (huguenot), dies at 57 on October - 02.   

1715  On October - 02 peter II, czar of Russia (1727-30)   

1721  On this day in history benott Audran, artist/engraver, dies   

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

1737  On this day in history franz Schneider, composer   

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

1752  Samuel Story, Dutch admiral (Battle at Kamperduin) on this day in history.   

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

1760  On this day in history russian/Austrian army evacuates Berlin [NS=10/13]   

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 this day in history.   

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

1786  On this day in history 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 this day in history.   

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

1792  On October - 02 baptist Missionary Society forms in London   

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

1795  On October - 02 tula (leader slave uprising) sentence to death in Curacao   

1799  On this day in history duke of York & Russians capture Alkmaar in Netherlands   

1800  Nat Turner, Virginia, leader of major slave rebellion (1831) on October - 02.   

1803  Samuel Adams, US revolutionary (Boston Massacre-Tea Party), dies at 81 on October - 02.   

1804  England mobilizes to protect against French invasion on this day in history.   

1809  On this day in history anton Emil Titl, composer   

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

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  Alexander Peter "Old Straight" Stewart, Lt Gen (Confederate Army) on this day in history.   

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 October - 02.   

1832  On October - 02 edward Burnett Tylor, English anthropologist   

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

1470  Isabella of Naples, Duchess of Milan (d. 1524) was born on October - 02.   

1538  Saint Charles Borromeo, Italian cardinal (d. 1584) was born on October - 02.   

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

1616  On October - 02 birth of a Gryphius, writer   

1644  François-Timoléon de Choisy, French writer (d. 1724) was born on this day in history.   

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

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

0472  Olybrius, emperor of Westromeinse republic (472), dies on October - 02.   

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 this day in history.   

1264  On this day in history 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 this day in history.   

1564  On this day in history andreas Vesalius, [Andries of Wesel], Flemish anatomist, dies at 49   

1588  Bernardino Telesio, Italian philosopher (Rerum in Child), dies on this day in history.