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

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

1715  On this day in history peter II, czar of Russia (1727-30)   

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  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 October - 02.   

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  On October - 02 william Cavendish, 4th Duke of Devonshire, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom   

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

1780  On October - 02 john Andre, British major, hanged by Americans (spied with B Arnold)   

1786  On this day in history august Keppel, 1st viscount/naval commander/politican, dies   

1787  Maagden House opens in Amsterdam on October - 02.   

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

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

1792  On October - 02 baptist Missionary Society forms in London   

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

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

1799  Duke of York & Russians capture Alkmaar in Netherlands on this day in history.   

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

1809  Anton Emil Titl, composer on October - 02.   

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

1817  On this day in history gunnar Wennerberg, composer   

1819  On October - 02 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  On October - 02 joannes Kappeyne van de Coppello, Dutch Internal minister (1877-79)   

1823  On this day in history 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  On this day in history birth of isabella of Naples, Duchess of Milan (d. 1524)   

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  François-Timoléon de Choisy, French writer (d. 1724) was born on October - 02.   

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 October - 02.   

0939  On October - 02 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  On this day in history john Murmelius, humanist/theory/school book writer, dies at about 37   

1559  On this day in history death of jacquet of Mantua, French composer (b. 1483)   

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.