Page 2: Historical Events In October - 23

1773  Pietro Generali, composer on October - 23.   

1775  Continental Congress approves resolution barring blacks from army on this day in history.   

1782  On October - 23 joseph Reipel, composer, dies at 73   

1788  Sarah Hale, founder (Seaman's Aid Society of Boston) on this day in history.   

1790  On October - 23 slaves revolt in Haiti (later suppressed)   

1794  Joseph Panny, composer on October - 23.   

1797  On October - 23 john J Rochussen, governor-general of Dutch-Indies (1845-51)   

1799  On October - 23 william Paca, US judge/signer (Decl of Independence), dies at 58   

1801  Gustav Albert Lortzing, composer on this day in history.   

1801  Johann Gottlieb Naumann, German composer, dies at 60 on this day in history.   

1805  Sailing ship "Aeneus" sinks off Newfoundland killing 340 on this day in history.   

1805  On this day in history adalbert Stifter, Austrian author (Nachsommer)   

1806  Franz Seydelmann, composer, dies at 58 on October - 23.   

1810  On October - 23 [Sarah] Margaret Fuller Ossoli, US feminist/revolutionary (NY Tribune)   

1812  Failed coup against emperor Napoleon on this day in history.   

1813  On this day in history the Pacific Fur Company trading post in Astoria, Oregon is turned over to the rival British North West Company (the fur trade in the Pacific Northwest was dominated for the next three decades by the United Kingdom).   

1814  1st plastic surgery is performed (England) on October - 23.   

1819  On October - 23 isac Baker Woodbury, composer   

1820  On this day in history james Monroe Goggin, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1889   

1824  1st steam locomotive is introduced on October - 23.   

1824  On October - 23 thomas Gamble Pitcher, Brig General (Union volunteers), died in 1895   

1828  Turner Ashby, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1862 on October - 23.   

1835  Adlai Stevenson, (D) 23rd VP (1893-97) on October - 23.   

1844  Louis Riel, Manitoba, leader of insurrection of Metis on October - 23.   

1846  Alexander Andreyevich Archangel'sky, composer on October - 23.   

1851  On October - 23 guillaume Couture, composer   

1852  Jean-Louis Forain, French etcher/lithographer on October - 23.   

1853  Maastricht-Aken railway in Neth opens on October - 23.   

1854  The Times give precise British positions in Krim on this day in history.   

1864  On October - 23 battle of Westport, Missouri   

1864  On October - 23 union Gen Samuel R Curtis defeats Conf Gen Stirling Price   

1867  72 Senators are summoned by Royal Proclamation to serve as the first members of the Canadian Senate on this day in history.   

1868  On this day in history rama V, [Chulalongkorn], leader of Thailand (-1910)   

1869  On this day in history jacobus H "Koos" Speenhoff, Dutch singer   

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1503  Isabella of Portugal, queen of Spain and empress of Germany (d. 1539) was born on October - 23.   

1516  On October - 23 birth of charlotte de Valois, princess of France (d. 1524)   

1543  Juan de la Cueva, Spain, dramatist was born on this day in history.   

1634  On this day in history birth of hedvig Eleonora of Holstein-Gottorp, Queen of Sweden (d. 1715)   

1654  On this day in history birth of johann Bernhard Staudt, composer   

1698  Ange-Jacques Gabriel, French court architect (Palace de la Concorde) was born on October - 23.   

1705  Maximilian Ulysses Count Browne, Austrian field marshal (d. 1757) was born on this day in history.   

1713  On this day in history birth of peter Burmannus Secundus, [Pieter Burman], Dutch classicist   

0930  Death of Daigo, Emperor of Japan (b. 885) on October - 23.   

1260  Death of Koetoez, Turkish sultan of Egypt, murdered on this day in history.   

1450  Johannes van Capestrano, Italian saint, dies at 70 on October - 23.   

1456  On this day in history death of giovanni da Capistrano, Italian saint (b. 1386)   

1550  Death of Tiedemann Giese, Polish Catholic bishop (b. 1480) on October - 23.   

1581  On this day in history death of michael Neander, German mathematician and astronomer (b. 1529)   

1602  Franciscus Junius, French/Neth calvinist theologist/vicar, dies at 57 on October - 23.   

1616  Death of Leonhard Hutter, German theologian (b. 1563) on October - 23.