Guillaume Poitevin, composer

Birth

Stephan Otto, composer, dies at 53

Death

US colony Connecticut passes law against Quakers

Event

Wu San-kuei, gen, invited Manchus to China, dies trying to expel them

Death

Spanish king Carlos II appoints Philip van Anjou, heir to throne

Event

Frantisek Ignac Antonin Tuma, composer

Birth

Anne Jules duke the Noailles, marshal of France (huguenot), dies at 57

Death

Peter II, czar of Russia (1727-30)

Birth

Benott Audran, artist/engraver, dies

Death

Arnold Boonen, portrait painter, dies at 60

Death

Franz Schneider, composer

Birth

Francis Hopkinson, US, writer/lawyer (design Stars and Stripes)

Birth

Samuel Story, Dutch admiral (Battle at Kamperduin)

Birth

Josef Jawurek, composer

Birth

Jacob van Strij, Dutch cartoonist/graphic artist

Birth

Russian/Austrian army evacuates Berlin [NS=10/13]

Event

John Andr‚, British major, hanged by Americans (spied with B Arnold)

Death

August Keppel, 1st viscount/naval commander/politican, dies

Death

Maagden House opens in Amsterdam

Event

Baptist Missionary Society forms in London

Event

Philip Cipriani Hambley Potter, pianist/composer

Birth

Tula (leader slave uprising) sentence to death in Cura‡ao

Event

Duke of York and Russians capture Alkmaar in Netherlands

Event

Nat Turner, Virginia, leader of major slave rebellion (1831)

Birth

Samuel Adams, US revolutionary (Boston Massacre-Tea Party), dies at 81

Death