Page 2: Historical Events In October - 17

1720  Maria Teresa Agnesi, composer   

1725  John Wilkes, English journalist/MP (N Briton)   

1729  Pierre-Alexandre Monsigny, composer   

1730  Ernestus Weinrauch, composer   

1734  Grigori G Orlov, Russ guard officer/favorite of Catharina II.   

1740  Ivan VI is recorded as becoming Czar of Russia   

1748  French troops lift siege of English at Pondicherry, India   

1763  Arnold Hoogvliet, poet (Abraham the patriarch), dies at 76   

1777  British General John Burgoyne surrenders at Saratoga, NY   

1781  Cornwallis defeated at Yorktown   

1787  Boston blacks, petition legislature for equal school facilities.   

1797  Peace of Campo Formio: Austrian Dutch possessions and France   

1800  Dutch colony Curacao transfered to England   

1805  Napoleon breaks camp at Boulogne, proceeds by forced marches into Germany, forces the surrender October 17 at Ulm of a 30000-man Austrian army under Baron Karl Mack von Leiberich, 53, and caps the victory by taking Vienna.   

1806  Former leader of the Haitian Revolution, Emperor Jacques I of Haiti was assassinated after an oppressive rule   

1806  Alphonse LPP de Candolle, Swiss botanist.   

1806  Jean Jacques Dessalines, Emperor of Haiti, dies.   

1808  Political rights of Jews suspended in Duchy of Warsaw   

1811  Albertus C van Raalte, Dutch/US vicar (owned land in Mich)   

1814  London Beer Flood occurs in London killing nine.   

1815  Napoleon arrives in St Helena.   

1815  Emanuel Geibel, writer.   

1817  Sajjid Ahmad Chan, Indian moslem leader/co-founder (Pakistan).   

1825  1st French Liszts operette Don Sanche premieres in Paris   

1825  Peter Winter, composer, dies at 71   

1829  Delaware River and Chesapeake Bay Canal formally opened.   

1829  Delaware River and Chesapeake Bay Canal formally opens   

1831  Felix Mendelssohn's 1st Piano concert in G, premieres.   

1837  Johann Nepomuk Hummel, Austrian composer, dies at 58.   

1844  Miguel Nieto, composer.   

1845  Franz Ehrle, German prefect of Vatican library.   

1848  William "Candy" Cummings, created curve ball   

1849  Frederic F Chopin, Polish/French pianist/composer, dies at 39   

1850  James Young obtains a patent for the extraction of paraffin from shale, the beginning of the paraffin industry in West Lothian.   

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1253  Ivo of kermartin: ]])   

1563  Jodocus hondius: Flemish mathematician/cartographer   

1577  Cristofano allori: Italian painter (judith)   

1582  Johann gerhard: German lutheran leader   

1623  Francis turretin: Swiss theologian   

1626  Simon van leeuwen: Lawyer/historian (roman-holland regt)   

1688  Domenico zipoli: Composer   

1696  August iii: King of poland/monarch frederik august ii of saksen   

0532  Boniface ii: 1st "german" pope,   

1174  Death of Queen petronila of aragon: Queen petronila of aragon (b. 1135)   

1312  Jan ii: Duke of brabant/limburg (charter of kortenberg),   

1552  Death of Andreas osiander: Protestant reformation theologist,   

1586  Philip sidney: English poet/diplomat,   

1616  John pitts: Catholic scholar and writer. (b. 1560)   

1638  Death of Gilles claesz de hondecoeter: Flemish (?) painter, buried at about 63   

1660  Death of Adrian scrope: English regicide (b. 1601)