Page 2: Historical Events In October - 02

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

1704  On this day in history frantisek Ignac Antonin Tuma, composer   

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

1715  Peter II, czar of Russia (1727-30) on October - 02.   

1721  On October - 02 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 October - 02.   

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

1760  On October - 02 russian/Austrian army evacuates Berlin [NS=10/13]   

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 October - 02.   

1780  On this day in history john Andre, British major, hanged by Americans (spied with B Arnold)   

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

1787  On this day in history maagden House opens in Amsterdam   

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

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

1792  On this day in history baptist Missionary Society forms in London   

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  Nat Turner, Virginia, leader of major slave rebellion (1831) on this day in history.   

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

1804  On this day in history england mobilizes to protect against French invasion   

1809  On this day in history anton Emil Titl, composer   

1809  On this day in history wybo Fijnje, politician/patriot/journalist, dies at 59   

1817  On this day in history gunnar Wennerberg, composer   

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

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 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 October - 02 edward Burnett Tylor, English anthropologist   

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1452  On this day in history birth of king Richard III, of England (1483-85)   

1470  Isabella of Naples, Duchess of Milan (d. 1524) was born on this day in history.   

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  A Gryphius, writer was born on this day in history.   

1644  On this day in history birth of françois-Timoléon de Choisy, French writer (d. 1724)   

1646  On October - 02 birth of guillaume Poitevin, composer   

1704  On October - 02 birth of frantisek Ignac Antonin Tuma, composer   

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  On this day in history mawdoed, Selchuk emir/governor of Mosul, dies   

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 this day in history.   

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

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