Page 2: Historical Events In October - 02

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

1704  Frantisek Ignac Antonin Tuma, composer on this day in history.   

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

1737  On October - 02 franz Schneider, composer   

1746  On this day in history josiah Burchett, English Secretary of the Admiralty   

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

1756  Jacob van Strij, Dutch cartoonist/graphic artist on October - 02.   

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

1764  On this day in history 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 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  On this day in history 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 October - 02.   

1792  Baptist Missionary Society forms in London on this day in history.   

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

1795  Tula (leader slave uprising) sentence to death in Curacao on this day in history.   

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

1800  On this day in history nat Turner, Virginia, leader of major slave rebellion (1831)   

1803  Samuel Adams, US revolutionary (Boston Massacre-Tea Party), dies at 81 on this day in history.   

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

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  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 this day in history.   

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

1823  On this day in history daniel Steibelt, composer, dies at 57 [OS=Sept 20]   

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

1832  On this day in history 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 this day in history.   

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 this day in history.   

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

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

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  On October - 02 death of jacquet of Mantua, French composer (b. 1483)   

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

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