October 02, 2008: A Brief History of Time part 3

In honor of my catch-up game of speed posting I'll introduce (and complete) today's post with a brief look at important events from October 2nd across the ages. You can just insert this at the end of Stephen Hawking's book.

1187 Siege of Jerusalem: Saladin captures Jerusalem after 88 years of Crusader rule.
1187 Sultan Saladin captures Jerusalem from the Crusaders
1263 The battle of Largs fought between Norwegians and Scots.
1535 Jacques Cartier discovers Montreal, Quebec.
1552 Conquest of Kazan by Ivan the Terrible.
1608 Hans Lippershey offers Dutch gov't a new invention, the telescope
1608 Prototype of modern reflecting telescope completed by Jan Lippershey
1608 The first telescope is demonstrated by Hans Lippershey of Middelburg.
1780 John Andre, British Army officer of the American Revolutionary War, is hanged as a spy by American forces.
1788 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.
1792 Baptist Missionary Society forms in London
1833 NY Anti-Slavery Society organized
1835 The Texas Revolution begins with the Battle of Gonzales: Mexican soldiers attempt to disarm the people of Gonzales, Texas, but encounter stiff resistance from a hastily assembled militia.
1836 Darwin returns to England aboard HMS Beagle
1839 New Zealand comes under jurisdiction of the Governor of New South Wales
1851 The pasilalinic-sympathetic compass is demonstrated but proves to be a fake.
1853 Austrian law forbids Jews from owning land
1869 Mahatma Gandhi was born Oct 2, 1869 in Porbander in western India. He died in 1948.
1870 Italy annexes Rome and Papal States; Rome made Italian capital
1879 Start of the Sherlock Holmes adventure "The Musgrave Ritual" (BG)
1889 First Pan American conference (Washington DC)
1889 In Colorado, Nicholas Creede strikes it rich in silver during the last great silver boom of the American Old West.
1901 First submarine commissioned by the British Navy is launched from Barrow, north-west England.