Page 2: Historical Events In October - 02

1700  Spanish king Carlos II appoints Philip van Anjou, heir to throne on this day in history.   

1704  On October - 02 frantisek Ignac Antonin Tuma, composer   

1707  Anne Jules duke the Noailles, marshal of France (huguenot), dies at 57 on this day in history.   

1715  On this day in history peter II, czar of Russia (1727-30)   

1721  On October - 02 benott Audran, artist/engraver, dies   

1729  Arnold Boonen, portrait painter, dies at 60 on October - 02.   

1737  On this day in history franz Schneider, composer   

1746  On this day in history josiah Burchett, English Secretary of the Admiralty   

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

1756  On October - 02 jacob van Strij, Dutch cartoonist/graphic artist   

1760  Russian/Austrian army evacuates Berlin [NS=10/13] on this day in history.   

1764  On this day in history william Cavendish, 4th Duke of Devonshire, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom   

1780  On October - 02 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 this day in history.   

1786  On October - 02 august Keppel, 1st viscount/naval commander/politican, dies   

1787  Maagden House opens in Amsterdam on October - 02.   

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

1792  Philip Cipriani Hambley Potter, pianist/composer on October - 02.   

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

1799  On October - 02 duke of York & Russians capture Alkmaar in Netherlands   

1800  On October - 02 nat Turner, Virginia, leader of major slave rebellion (1831)   

1803  On this day in history samuel Adams, US revolutionary (Boston Massacre-Tea Party), dies at 81   

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

1809  Anton Emil Titl, composer on October - 02.   

1809  Wybo Fijnje, politician/patriot/journalist, dies at 59 on October - 02.   

1817  On October - 02 gunnar Wennerberg, composer   

1819  George Washington Getty, Bvt Major General (Union Army), died in 1901 on October - 02.   

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 this day in history.   

1827  On October - 02 edmund Jackson Davis, Brig General (Union volunteers), died in 1883   

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

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

1704  Frantisek Ignac Antonin Tuma, composer was born on this day in history.   

0472  On October - 02 olybrius, emperor of Westromeinse republic (472), dies   

0939  On October - 02 death of giselbert, duke of Lutheran, drowns at about 49   

1113  Mawdoed, Selchuk emir/governor of Mosul, dies on October - 02.   

1264  On this day in history urbanus IV, [Jacques Pantaleon], French Pope (1261-64), dies   

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 this day in history.   

1588  Bernardino Telesio, Italian philosopher (Rerum in Child), dies on this day in history.