Page 2: Historical Events In October - 02

1700  On this day in history spanish king Carlos II appoints Philip van Anjou, heir to throne   

1704  On October - 02 frantisek Ignac Antonin Tuma, composer   

1707  Anne Jules duke the Noailles, marshal of France (huguenot), dies at 57 on October - 02.   

1715  Peter II, czar of Russia (1727-30) on October - 02.   

1721  Benott Audran, artist/engraver, dies on October - 02.   

1729  On this day in history arnold Boonen, portrait painter, dies at 60   

1737  Franz Schneider, composer on this day in history.   

1746  On October - 02 josiah Burchett, English Secretary of the Admiralty   

1752  On October - 02 samuel Story, Dutch admiral (Battle at Kamperduin)   

1756  On this day in history jacob van Strij, Dutch cartoonist/graphic artist   

1760  On this day in history russian/Austrian army evacuates Berlin [NS=10/13]   

1764  William Cavendish, 4th Duke of Devonshire, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom on this day in history.   

1780  On this day in history john Andre British major, hanged by Americans (spied with B Arnold), dies at 30   

1780  John Andre, British major, hanged by Americans (spied with B Arnold) on October - 02.   

1786  August Keppel, 1st viscount/naval commander/politican, dies on this day in history.   

1787  Maagden House opens in Amsterdam on this day in history.   

1788  HMAS Sirius sets out from Port Jackson, Australia, to Cape Town for provisions on this day in history.   

1789  On this day in history george Washington transmits the proposed Constitutional amendments (The United States Bill of Rights) to the States for ratification.   

1792  On October - 02 baptist Missionary Society forms in London   

1792  Philip Cipriani Hambley Potter, pianist/composer on this day in history.   

1795  On October - 02 tula (leader slave uprising) sentence to death in Curacao   

1799  Duke of York & Russians capture Alkmaar in Netherlands on this day in history.   

1800  Nat Turner, Virginia, leader of major slave rebellion (1831) on October - 02.   

1803  Samuel Adams, US revolutionary (Boston Massacre-Tea Party), dies at 81 on October - 02.   

1804  On October - 02 england mobilizes to protect against French invasion   

1809  On this day in history anton Emil Titl, composer   

1809  On this day in history wybo Fijnje, politician/patriot/journalist, dies at 59   

1817  On October - 02 gunnar Wennerberg, composer   

1819  George Washington Getty, Bvt Major General (Union Army), died in 1901 on this day in history.   

1821  Alexander Peter "Old Straight" Stewart, Lt Gen (Confederate Army) on October - 02.   

1822  Joannes Kappeyne van de Coppello, Dutch Internal minister (1877-79) on October - 02.   

1823  Daniel Steibelt, composer, dies at 57 [OS=Sept 20] on October - 02.   

1827  Edmund Jackson Davis, Brig General (Union volunteers), died in 1883 on October - 02.   

1832  Edward Burnett Tylor, English anthropologist on October - 02.   

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1452  On this day in history birth of king Richard III, of England (1483-85)   

1470  Isabella of Naples, Duchess of Milan (d. 1524) was born on this day in history.   

1538  On this day in history birth of saint Charles Borromeo, Italian cardinal (d. 1584)   

1595  On October - 02 birth of jacob Louys, Flemish engraver   

1616  On this day in history birth of a Gryphius, writer   

1644  François-Timoléon de Choisy, French writer (d. 1724) was born on this day in history.   

1646  Guillaume Poitevin, composer was born on this day in history.   

1704  Frantisek Ignac Antonin Tuma, composer was born on October - 02.   

0472  On this day in history olybrius, emperor of Westromeinse republic (472), dies   

0939  Death of Giselbert, duke of Lutheran, drowns at about 49 on this day in history.   

1113  Mawdoed, Selchuk emir/governor of Mosul, dies on this day in history.   

1264  Urbanus IV, [Jacques Pantaleon], French Pope (1261-64), dies on this day in history.   

1517  John Murmelius, humanist/theory/school book writer, dies at about 37 on October - 02.   

1559  On this day in history death of jacquet of Mantua, French composer (b. 1483)   

1564  Andreas Vesalius, [Andries of Wesel], Flemish anatomist, dies at 49 on October - 02.   

1588  Bernardino Telesio, Italian philosopher (Rerum in Child), dies on October - 02.