Page 3: Historical Events In October - 08

1840  1st Hawaiian constitution proclaimed.   

1842  Princess Sophia weds her cousin duke Charles Saksen-Weimar-Eisenach   

1842  Christoph Ernst Friedrich Weyse, composer, dies at 68   

1847  Rose Scott, Social Reformer   

1855  Gustav Ehrismann, German germanist   

1856  Chinese police board British vessel Arrow, arrest 12 Chinese crewmen on suspicion of piracy and lower Brit flag, begins 2nd Anglo-Chinese War.   

1860  Telegraph line between LA and SF opens   

1860  Felix Woyrsch, composer.   

1861  Theodore Roberts, SF CA, actor (Roaring Road, 10 Commandments).   

1862  Battle of Perryville, KY-Confederate invasion halted.   

1862  James Streshley Jackson, attorney/Union-brig-gen, dies in battle at 39   

1864  Thomas Jonathan Coffin Amory, US Union-brig-general, dies at about 34.   

1865  Earthquake in Santa Cruz Mountains   

1865  Heinrich Wilhelm Ernst, composer, dies at 51.   

1868  Max Slevogt, German painter.   

1869  J Frank Duryea, inventor (1st auto built and operated in US)   

1869  Franklin Peirce, 14th president (1853-1857), dies in Concord NH at 64   

1870  Louis Vierne, composer   

1871  A cow overturns a lantern in a barn, causing the 'Great Fire of Chicago'.   

1871  Gas explosion destroys Peshtigo, Wisconsin.   

1872  John Cowper Powys, British writer (Wood and Stone)   

1873  1st women's prison run by women opens at Indiana Reformatory Institute.   

1873  Ejnar Hertzsprung, Denmark, astronomer (Hertzsprung-Russell diagram)   

1874  Nance O'Neil, Oakland CA, actor (Cimarron).   

1875  Hugh L Doherty, tennis champ (US Open-1903).   

1879  War of the Pacific: the Chilean Navy defeats the Peruvian Navy in the Battle of Angamos, Peruvian Admiral Miguel Grau is killed in the encounter   

1880  Ernest F E Douwes Dekker, Dutch founder (National-India Party).   

1881  Haiphong typhoon in Vietnam killing 300000 people   

1885  William Henry Bennett Vodery, composer.   

1886  Start of the Sherlock Holmes adventure "The Noble Bachelor" (BG).   

1886  Start of Sherlock Holmes adventure "Noble Bachelor" (BG)   

1887  Phillies set club record 16th straight victory.   

1888  Clifford Heatherley, Preston England, actress (For Love or Money)   

1888  Jules J baron d'Anethan, Belgian Minister of Justice, dies   

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1515  Margaret douglas: Countess of lennox   

1585  Heinrich schutz: Composer   

1619  Philipp von zesen: German poet/historian (amsterdam)   

1621  Maximilian h of bayern: Prince-bishop of liege/bishop of hildesheim   

1676  Benito jerónimo feijóo y montenegro: Spanish scholar   

1690  Jaime de casellas: Composer   

1692  Antonio palella: Composer   

1697  Cornelis consolation: Dutch portrait painter (unseemly love)   

0705  Abd al-malik: Kalief of damascus,   

0976  Jelena of zadar: Croatian queen   

1094  St mark: The evangelist, buried in san marcos minstery in venice   

1253  Robert grosseteste: English bishop/expert (optica),   

1286  Death of John i of dreux: Duke of brittany (b. 1217)   

1317  Fushimi: Emperor of japan (b. 1265)   

1604  Death of Janus dousa: [johan van de does], literature/politician,   

1606  Jan: The aged, count of nassau/fathered 24,