Page 2: Historical Events In October - 02

1700  Spanish king Carlos II appoints Philip van Anjou, heir to throne on October - 02.   

1704  On this day in history frantisek Ignac Antonin Tuma, composer   

1707  On this day in history anne Jules duke the Noailles, marshal of France (huguenot), dies at 57   

1715  On October - 02 peter II, czar of Russia (1727-30)   

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

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

1737  On this day in history franz Schneider, composer   

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

1752  On this day in history samuel Story, Dutch admiral (Battle at Kamperduin)   

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

1760  On October - 02 russian/Austrian army evacuates Berlin [NS=10/13]   

1764  On October - 02 william Cavendish, 4th Duke of Devonshire, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom   

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

1780  On October - 02 john Andre, British major, hanged by Americans (spied with B Arnold)   

1786  August Keppel, 1st viscount/naval commander/politican, dies on October - 02.   

1787  Maagden House opens in Amsterdam on October - 02.   

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

1789  George Washington transmits the proposed Constitutional amendments (The United States Bill of Rights) to the States for ratification on October - 02.   

1792  Baptist Missionary Society forms in London on this day in history.   

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

1795  Tula (leader slave uprising) sentence to death in Curacao on October - 02.   

1799  Duke of York & Russians capture Alkmaar in Netherlands on October - 02.   

1800  Nat Turner, Virginia, leader of major slave rebellion (1831) on this day in history.   

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

1804  On this day in history england mobilizes to protect against French invasion   

1809  Anton Emil Titl, composer on this day in history.   

1809  Wybo Fijnje, politician/patriot/journalist, dies at 59 on this day in history.   

1817  Gunnar Wennerberg, composer on October - 02.   

1819  On this day in history george Washington Getty, Bvt Major General (Union Army), died in 1901   

1821  Alexander Peter "Old Straight" Stewart, Lt Gen (Confederate Army) on this day in history.   

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 this day in history.   

1827  Edmund Jackson Davis, Brig General (Union volunteers), died in 1883 on this day in history.   

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

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1452  King Richard III, of England (1483-85) was born on this day in history.   

1470  On this day in history birth of isabella of Naples, Duchess of Milan (d. 1524)   

1538  Saint Charles Borromeo, Italian cardinal (d. 1584) was born on October - 02.   

1595  Jacob Louys, Flemish engraver was born on October - 02.   

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

1644  On October - 02 birth of françois-Timoléon de Choisy, French writer (d. 1724)   

1646  On October - 02 birth of guillaume Poitevin, composer   

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

0472  Olybrius, emperor of Westromeinse republic (472), dies on this day in history.   

0939  On this day in history death of giselbert, duke of Lutheran, drowns at about 49   

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

1264  On October - 02 urbanus IV, [Jacques Pantaleon], French Pope (1261-64), dies   

1517  On this day in history john Murmelius, humanist/theory/school book writer, dies at about 37   

1559  Death of Jacquet of Mantua, French composer (b. 1483) on this day in history.   

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

1588  On this day in history bernardino Telesio, Italian philosopher (Rerum in Child), dies