Page 3: Historical Events In October - 08

1840  First Hawaiian constitution proclaimed on October - 08.   

1840  On October - 08 1st Hawaiian constitution proclaimed   

1842  Princess Sophia weds her cousin duke Charles Saksen-Weimar-Eisenach on this day in history.   

1842  On October - 08 christoph Ernst Friedrich Weyse, composer, dies at 68   

1847  On October - 08 rose Scott, Social Reformer   

1855  On October - 08 gustav Ehrismann, German germanist   

1856  Chinese police board British vessel Arrow, arrest 12 Chinese crewmen on suspicion of piracy & lower Brit flag, begins 2nd Anglo-Chinese War on October - 08.   

1860  On October - 08 telegraph line between LA and SF opens   

1860  Telegraph line between LA & SF opens on this day in history.   

1860  Felix Woyrsch, composer on October - 08.   

1861  Theodore Roberts, SF CA, actor (Roaring Road, 10 Commandments) on this day in history.   

1862  On this day in history battle of Perryville, KY-Confederate invasion halted   

1862  On this day in history 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 on October - 08.   

1865  Earthquake in Santa Cruz Mountains on October - 08.   

1865  On this day in history heinrich Wilhelm Ernst, composer, dies at 51   

1868  On this day in history max Slevogt, German painter   

1869  On this day in history j Frank Duryea, inventor (1st auto built & operated in US)   

1869  Franklin Peirce, 14th president (1853-1857), dies in Concord NH at 64 on October - 08.   

1870  On this day in history louis Vierne, composer   

1871  On October - 08 a cow overturns a lantern in a barn, causing the 'Great Fire of Chicago'   

1871  Great Fire kills 200, destroys over 4ýmiles (10 kmý) of Chicago buildings, and original Emancipation Proclamation on this day in history.   

1871  On October - 08 gas explosion destroys Peshtigo, Wisconsin   

1872  John Cowper Powys, British writer (Wood & Stone) on this day in history.   

1873  1st women's prison run by women opens at Indiana Reformatory Institute on October - 08.   

1873  On October - 08 ejnar Hertzsprung, Denmark, astronomer (Hertzsprung-Russell diagram)   

1874  Nance O'Neil, Oakland CA, actor (Cimarron) on this day in history.   

1875  Hugh L Doherty, tennis champ (US Open-1903) on October - 08.   

1879  On October - 08 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  On this day in history ernest F E Douwes Dekker, Dutch founder (National-India Party)   

1881  Haiphong typhoon in Vietnam killing 300,000 people on this day in history.   

1885  William Henry Bennett Vodery, composer on October - 08.   

1886  Start of the Sherlock Holmes adventure "The Noble Bachelor" (BG) on this day in history.   

1886  Start of Sherlock Holmes adventure "Noble Bachelor" (BG) on October - 08.   

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1515  On this day in history birth of margaret Douglas, Countess of Lennox (d. 1578)   

1585  On this day in history birth of heinrich Schutz, composer   

1619  On October - 08 birth of philipp von Zesen, German poet/historian (Amsterdam)   

1621  Maximilian H of Bayern, prince-bishop of Liege/bishop of Hildesheim was born on October - 08.   

1676  Benito Jerónimo Feijóo y Montenegro, Spanish scholar (d. 1764) was born on this day in history.   

1690  On this day in history birth of jaime de Casellas, composer   

1692  Antonio Palella, composer was born on this day in history.   

1697  Cornelis Consolation, Dutch portrait painter (Unseemly Love) was born on this day in history.   

0705  On October - 08 abd al-Malik, kalief of Damascus, dies   

0976  On October - 08 death of jelena of Zadar, Croatian queen   

1094  Death of St Mark, the Evangelist, buried in San Marcos minstery in Venice on this day in history.   

1253  Robert Grosseteste, English Bishop/expert (optica), dies on this day in history.   

1286  Death of John I of Dreux, Duke of Brittany (b. 1217) on October - 08.   

1317  On October - 08 death of fushimi, Emperor of Japan (b. 1265)   

1604  On this day in history janus Dousa, [Johan van de Does], literature/politician, dies at 58   

1606  On October - 08 jan, the Aged, count of Nassau/fathered 24, dies