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  On October - 02 frantisek Ignac Antonin Tuma, composer   

1707  Anne Jules duke the Noailles, marshal of France (huguenot), dies at 57 on this day in history.   

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

1721  Benott Audran, artist/engraver, dies on this day in history.   

1729  Arnold Boonen, portrait painter, dies at 60 on October - 02.   

1737  Franz Schneider, composer on October - 02.   

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

1752  On October - 02 samuel Story, Dutch admiral (Battle at Kamperduin)   

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

1760  On October - 02 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 October - 02.   

1780  John Andre, British major, hanged by Americans (spied with B Arnold) on October - 02.   

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

1787  On October - 02 maagden House opens in Amsterdam   

1788  On October - 02 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 this day in history.   

1792  Baptist Missionary Society forms in London on October - 02.   

1792  On this day in history philip Cipriani Hambley Potter, pianist/composer   

1795  Tula (leader slave uprising) sentence to death in Curacao on October - 02.   

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

1800  On October - 02 nat Turner, Virginia, leader of major slave rebellion (1831)   

1803  On October - 02 samuel Adams, US revolutionary (Boston Massacre-Tea Party), dies at 81   

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

1809  On October - 02 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  On this day in history alexander Peter "Old Straight" Stewart, Lt Gen (Confederate Army)   

1822  Joannes Kappeyne van de Coppello, Dutch Internal minister (1877-79) on October - 02.   

1823  Daniel Steibelt, composer, dies at 57 [OS=Sept 20] on October - 02.   

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  King Richard III, of England (1483-85) was born on this day in history.   

1470  On October - 02 birth of isabella of Naples, Duchess of Milan (d. 1524)   

1538  On October - 02 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  On October - 02 birth of françois-Timoléon de Choisy, French writer (d. 1724)   

1646  On this day in history birth of guillaume Poitevin, composer   

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

0472  On this day in history olybrius, emperor of Westromeinse republic (472), dies   

0939  On this day in history death of giselbert, duke of Lutheran, drowns at about 49   

1113  On October - 02 mawdoed, Selchuk emir/governor of Mosul, dies   

1264  Urbanus IV, [Jacques Pantaleon], French Pope (1261-64), dies on October - 02.   

1517  On October - 02 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  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 October - 02.