Historical Events
- Oct 28 First Protestant church assembly for American Indians established in Massachusetts
Famous Birthdays
- Oct 2 Guillaume Poitevin, French composer and teacher, born in Boulbon, France (d. 1706)
Famous Deaths
- Oct 3 Virgilio Mazzocchi, Italian composer, dies at 49
- Oct 9 Baltasar Carlos, son of Spanish King Philip IV, dies of smallpox at 16
- Oct 12 François de Bassompierre, marshal of France, dies at 67
- Oct 18 Isaac Jogues, French Jesuit missionary and martyr, killed with a tomahawk at 39 by Mohawk at their village of Ossernenon and dumped in the Mohawk River
- Oct 28 William Dobson, English portrait painter, dies at about 35 (b. 1610)
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