E. B. Tylor ( 2 October 1832 – 2 January 1917 ) and James George Frazer ( 1 January 1854 – 7 May 1941 ) are generally considered the antecedents to modern social anthropology in Britain.

Alfred Bernhard Nobel ( äl ' fred bern ' härd nōbel ') () ( 21 October 1833 – 10 December 1896 ) was a Swedish chemist, engineer, innovator, and armaments manufacturer.

Alfons Maria Jakob ( 2 July 1884, Aschaffenburg / Bavaria – 17 October 1931, Hamburg ) was a German neurologist with important contributions on neuropathology.

* 1998 – Travelers Group announces an agreement to undertake the $ 76 billion merger between Travelers and Citicorp, and the merger is completed on October 8, of that year, forming Citibank.

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Alexander Mackenzie, PC ( January 28, 1822 – April 17, 1892 ), a building contractor and newspaper editor, was the second Prime Minister of Canada from November 7, 1873 to October 8, 1878.

* Sir Henri Elzear Taschereau – October 7, 1878

" Histoire et Science Sociale: La Longue Durée " ( 1958 ) Annales E. S. C., 13: 4 October – December 1958, 725 – 753

The case was legally resolved on October 19, 1973 when U. S. District Judge Earl R. Larson held the ENIAC patent invalid, ruling that the ENIAC derived many basic ideas from the Atanasoff – Berry Computer.

* " Holding Power " – 14 Anchors Tested from SAIL magazine October 2006

October – December ; 1973 ( 4 ): 327-45.

* 1940 – An Italian submarine torpedoes and sinks the Greek cruiser Elli at Tinos harbor during peacetime, marking the most serious Italian provocation prior to the outbreak of the Greco-Italian War in October.

# Siegfried ( died 24 October 1184 ), Bishop of Brandenburg from 1173 – 1180, Prince-Archbishop of Bremen, the first ranked prince, from 1180 – 1184

The city and its fortified sourroundings were encircled 13 September – 16 October 1944 by the US 1st Infantry Division and 3rd Armored Division in conjunction with the US 2nd Armored Division and 30th Infantry Division during the prolonged Battle of Aachen, later reinforced by US 28th Infantry Division elements.

Vipsania Agrippina or most commonly known as Agrippina Major or Agrippina the Elder ( Major Latin for the elder, Classical Latin:, 14 BC – 17 October 33 ) was a distinguished and prominent Roman woman of the first century AD.

Severus Alexander (; 1 October 208 – 18 or 19 March 235 ) was Roman Emperor from 222 to 235.

* Peter Alexeievich Romanov ( 23 October 1715 – 30 January 1730 )

* 1990 – West Germany and East Germany announce that they will unite on October 3.

Transmission, Gregory Chaitin also presents this theorem in J. ACM – Chaitin's paper was submitted October 1966 and revised in December 1968, and cites both Solomonoff's and Kolmogorov's papers.

Alfred the Great (, " elf counsel "; 849 – 26 October 899 ) was King of Wessex from 871 to 899.

* María de las Mercedes, Princess of Asturias, ( 11 September 1880 – 17 October 1904 ), married on 14 February 1901 to Prince Carlos of Bourbon-Two Sicilies, and titular heiress from the death of her father until the posthumous birth of her brother

* Alfonso Sanz y Martínez de Arizala ( 28 January 1880, Madrid – 1970 ), married in 1922 to María de Guadalupe de Limantour y Mariscal ( d. 1977, Marbella ), daughter of Julio de Limantour y Marquet ( 17 June 1863, Mexico City – 11 October 1909, Mexico City ) and wife Elena Mariscal y ..., paternal granddaughter of French Joseph Yves de Limantour y Rence de la Pagame ( 1812, Ploemeur – 1885, Mexico City ) and wife Adèle Marquet y Cabannes ( 1820, Bordeaux –?

From October 1784 to September 1786 he was employed by Nepean, who was in charge of the Secret Service relating to the Bourbon Powers, France and Spain, to spy on the French naval arsenals at Toulon and other ports.

In Turin on 29 September 1781 ( by proxy ) and again in Dresden on 24 October 1781 ( in person ), Anton married firstly with the Princess Caroline of Savoy ( Maria Carolina Antonietta Adelaida ), daughter of the King Victor Amadeus III of Sardinia and Maria Antonietta of Spain.

Only from Spain did Louis XIV receive any good news where Das Minas and Galway had been forced to retreat from Madrid towards Valencia, allowing Philip V to re-enter his capital on 4 October.

Charles was outraged, and upon their return in October, he and Buckingham demanded that King James declare war on Spain.

Equatorial Guinea became officially independent from Spain on October 12, 1968.

In October 2007, Polgár played in the Blindfold World Cup in Bilbao, Spain.

Pinckney's Treaty, signed with Spain on October 27, 1795, gave American merchants " right of deposit " in New Orleans, granting them use of the port to store goods for export.

* National Day of Spain – October 12 ( Discovery of America )

In Italy, Poland, Portugal, and Spain, October 4 of this year is followed directly by October 15.

In Italy, Poland, Portugal, and Spain, October 4 of this year is followed directly by October 15.

As for employment, a longtime weakness of the Spanish economy, after having completed large improvements over the second half of the 1990s and during the 2000s ( decade ), which put a few regions on the brink of full employment, Spain suffered a severe setback from October 2008, when it saw its unemployment rate surging to 1996 levels.

During the period October 2007-October 2008 Spain had its unemployment rate climbing 37 %, exceeding the unemployment surge of past economic crises like 1993.

In particular, during the month of October 2008, Spain feared its worst unemployment rise ever recorded and, so far, the country is suffering a big unemployment crisis.

The visiting mission returned its report on October 15, announcing " an overwhelming consensus " in favor of independence ( as opposed to integration with Morocco or with Mauritania, or continued rule by Spain ).

October 12 1492 – Christopher Columbus | Columbus discovers Americas | The Americas for Spain.

* October 12 – Equatorial Guinea receives its independence from Spain.

* October 28 – In Catalonia, Spain, the Barcelona – Mataró railroad route ( the first to be constructed in the Iberian Peninsula ) is inaugurated.

* October 18 – October 21 – Spanish Civil War: The whole Spanish northern seaboard falls into the Falangists ' hands ; Republican forces in Gijon, Spain, set fire to petrol reserves prior to retreating before the advancing Falangists.

* October 28 – The Socialist Party wins the election in Spain ; Felipe González is elected Prime Minister.

* October 16 – The International Olympic Committee chooses Albertville, France to be the host city of the 1992 Winter Olympics and Barcelona, Spain to be the host city of the 1992 Summer Olympics.

* October 24 – Victoria Eugenie of Battenberg, Queen Consort of Spain ( d. 1969 )

* October – December, 1822 – Congress of Verona: Russia, Austria and Prussia approve French intervention in Spain.