Historical Events
- Oct 1 Belgium is conquered by France
- Oct 1 France annexes Southern Netherlands
- Oct 2 Tula (leader slave uprising) sentence to death in Curacao
- Oct 16 M von Böhms "Oorlogscantate" premieres
- Oct 24 3rd Partition of Poland, between Austria, Prussia & Russia
- Oct 26 The Directoire, a five-man revolutionary government of France, is created
- Oct 27 Pinckney's Treaty [Treaty of San Lorenzo] signed by Spain and US, establishing the southern boundary of the US and giving Americans right to navigate the Mississippi River
Famous Birthdays
- Oct 5 Alexander Keith, Scottish-Canadian politician (4th Mayor of Halifax) and brewer (founder of the Alexander Keith's Nova Scotia Brewery), born in Halkirk, Caithness, Highland, Scotland (d. 1873)
- Oct 15 Frederick William IV, King of Prussia (1840-61) and Germany (1849-61), born in Berlin (d. 1861)
- Oct 16 William Buell Sprague, American clergyman and author (d. 1876)
- Oct 26 Nikolaos Mantzaros, Italian-Greek composer, born in Corfu Island, Greece (d. 1872)
- Oct 28 Leonardus Antonius Lightenvelt, Dutch politician, born in 's-Hertogenbosch, Netherlands (d. 1873)
John Keats (1795-1821)
Oct 31 English Romantic poet (Ode to a Grecian Urn), born in London
Famous Weddings
- Oct 4 "Rime of the Ancient Mariner" poet Samuel Coleridge (22) marries Sarah Fricker in Bristol, England
Famous Deaths
- Oct 1 Robert Bakewell, English cattle breeder, dies at about 70
- Oct 3 Tula, leader of Curacaose slave uprising, executed
- Oct 7 Johann Georg von Zimmermann, Swiss philosophical author and physician, dies at 66
- Oct 8 Andrew Kippis, English non-conformist clergyman and biographer, dies at 70
- Oct 10 Francesco Antonio Zaccaria, Italian theologian and historian, dies at 81
- Oct 13 William Prescott, American Revolutionary soldier ("Do not fire until you see the whites of their eyes"), dies at 69
