Page 2: Historical Events In October - 23

1773  On October - 23 pietro Generali, composer   

1775  Continental Congress approves resolution barring blacks from army on October - 23.   

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

1788  Sarah Hale, founder (Seaman's Aid Society of Boston) on October - 23.   

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

1794  On this day in history joseph Panny, composer   

1797  John J Rochussen, governor-general of Dutch-Indies (1845-51) on October - 23.   

1799  William Paca, US judge/signer (Decl of Independence), dies at 58 on this day in history.   

1801  On this day in history gustav Albert Lortzing, composer   

1801  On this day in history johann Gottlieb Naumann, German composer, dies at 60   

1805  On October - 23 sailing ship "Aeneus" sinks off Newfoundland killing 340   

1805  Adalbert Stifter, Austrian author (Nachsommer) on this day in history.   

1806  On October - 23 franz Seydelmann, composer, dies at 58   

1810  On this day in history [Sarah] Margaret Fuller Ossoli, US feminist/revolutionary (NY Tribune)   

1812  On October - 23 failed coup against emperor Napoleon   

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 this day in history.   

1819  Isac Baker Woodbury, composer on October - 23.   

1820  James Monroe Goggin, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1889 on October - 23.   

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

1824  On this day in history thomas Gamble Pitcher, Brig General (Union volunteers), died in 1895   

1828  On October - 23 turner Ashby, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1862   

1835  Adlai Stevenson, (D) 23rd VP (1893-97) on this day in history.   

1844  On October - 23 louis Riel, Manitoba, leader of insurrection of Metis   

1846  On this day in history alexander Andreyevich Archangel'sky, composer   

1851  On this day in history guillaume Couture, composer   

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

1853  On this day in history maastricht-Aken railway in Neth opens   

1854  On this day in history the Times give precise British positions in Krim   

1864  Battle of Westport, Missouri on October - 23.   

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 October - 23.   

1868  Rama V, [Chulalongkorn], leader of Thailand (-1910) on October - 23.   

1869  Jacobus H "Koos" Speenhoff, Dutch singer on October - 23.   

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1503  On October - 23 birth of isabella of Portugal, queen of Spain and empress of Germany (d. 1539)   

1516  Charlotte de Valois, princess of France (d. 1524) was born on October - 23.   

1543  Juan de la Cueva, Spain, dramatist was born on October - 23.   

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

1654  On October - 23 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 October - 23.   

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 this day in history.   

1260  Death of Koetoez, Turkish sultan of Egypt, murdered on October - 23.   

1450  On October - 23 johannes van Capestrano, Italian saint, dies at 70   

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

1550  On October - 23 death of tiedemann Giese, Polish Catholic bishop (b. 1480)   

1581  Death of Michael Neander, German mathematician and astronomer (b. 1529) on this day in history.   

1602  On October - 23 franciscus Junius, French/Neth calvinist theologist/vicar, dies at 57   

1616  On this day in history death of leonhard Hutter, German theologian (b. 1563)