In October 1747 a loya jirga ( grand council ) concluded near the city of Kandahar with Ahmad Shah Durrani being selected as the new leader of the Afghans, thus the Durrani dynasty was founded.

The Afghans gathered near Kandahar in October 1747 and chose Ahmad Shah among the challengers, making him their new head of state.

* October 1747 — A jirga at Kandahar was attended by Afghan representatives who appointed Ahmad Shah Durrani as their new leader.

* October 22 – Nadir Shah of Persia ( d. 1747 )

From 1747 until the close of the war in October 1748 the naval policy of the British government, without reaching a high level, was more energetic and coherent.

Jean-François Rewbell ( October 8, 1747 – November 23, 1807 ) was a French lawyer, diplomat, and politician of the Revolution.

Emily FitzGerald, Duchess of Leinster ( 6 October 1731 – 27 March 1814 ), known before 1747 as Lady Emily Lennox, from 1747 to 1761 as The Countess of Kildare and from 1761 to 1766 as The Marchioness of Kildare, was the second of the famous Lennox sisters, daughters of Charles Lennox, 2nd Duke of Richmond, and illegitimately descended from King Charles II of England.

She boarded the ship Swallow at Portsmouth on 23 October 1747.

David Brainerd ( April 20, 1718 – October 9, 1747 ) was an American missionary to the Native Americans who had a particularly fruitful ministry among the Delaware Indians of New Jersey.

He died from tuberculosis on 9 October 1747, at the age of 29.

October 10, 1747 AE 32.

The Second Battle of Cape Finisterre in October 1747. The Western Squadron was a new strategy by Britain's naval planners to operate a more effective blockade system of France by stationing the Home Fleet in the Western Approaches, where they could guard both the English channel and the French Atlantic coast.

On 14 October 1747 the ship took part in the Second Battle of Cape Finisterre a victory off Ushant over the French fleet.

On 22 October 1806 in London he married Hannah Barent-Cohen ( 1783 – 1850 ), daughter of Levi Barent-Cohen ( 1747 – 1808 ) and wife Lydia Diamantschleifer and paternal granddaughter of Barent Cohen and wife, whose other son Salomon David Barent-Cohen ( d. 1807 ) married Sara Brandes, great-grandparents of Karl Marx.

He was present at Rocoux in October 1746 and, having been made Lieutenant-General of the Ordnance on 19 March 1747, he fought at Lauffeld in July 1747, where he led the charge of the British cavalry.

Mark Catesby married Elizabeth Rowland on 2 October 1747.

He was then appointed to his first command, that of the fireship, in which he saw action with Sir Edward Hawke's fleet at the Second Battle of Cape Finisterre on 16 October 1747.

On October 1, 1747, he married Deborah Fletcher ( c. 1727 – 1790 ), with whom he had five children.

Ebenezer Zane ( October 7, 1747 – 1811 ) was an American pioneer, road builder and land speculator.

Robert Burton ( October 20, 1747 – May 31, 1825 ) was an American farmer, Revolutionary War officer, and plantation owner in what is now Vance County, North Carolina ( then Granville County, North Carolina ).

Henry Southard ( October 7, 1747 – May 22, 1842 ) was a United States Representative from the state of New Jersey.

Following the ending of the Jacobite rising, Pulteney's Regiment returned to Flanders, where they fought at the Battle of Roucoux ( October 1746 ) and the Battle of Lauffeld or Val ( July 1747 ).

Hawke will return to the New York stage in October 2012 to play the title role in Chekhov's Ivanov.

After exploring it, he named it for Sir Edward Hawke, First Lord of the Admiralty on 15 October 1769, describing it as some 13 leagues ( about 40 miles ) across.

Admiral of the Fleet Edward Hawke, 1st Baron Hawke KB, PC ( 21 February 1705 – 16 October 1781 ) was an officer of the Royal Navy.

The terminal was officially opened on 25 October 1986 by then Prime Minister Bob Hawke, with the new terminal receiving passengers just days after.

* HMS Hawke, a first-class British cruiser, sunk by the German U-boat U-9 in October 1914

" After the death of the High Court judge Sir Anthony Hawke in October 1941, the Lord Chancellor Lord Simon offered Birkett the seat.

She spent the summer detached off Le Havre under Rear-Admiral George Brydges Rodney, rejoining Hawke in October, and then being sent to join a squadron under Commodore Robert Duff, to watch the French in Quiberon Bay.

* Edward Hawke, 1st Baron Hawke 5 November 1765 – 16 October 1781

Martin Bladen Hawke, 7th Baron Hawke of Towton ( 16 August 1860 – 10 October 1938 ), generally known as Lord Hawke, was an English amateur cricketer who played major roles in the sport's administration.

After Eton, his father decided he should have private tuition for two years, as he was a moderate scholar only, and it was not until October 1881 that Hawke went to Magdalene College, Cambridge, where he stayed until 1885.

Hawke died, aged 78, on 10 October 1938 in a nursing home at West End, Edinburgh, following an emergency operation after he collapsed at his home in North Berwick.

In the two years when Hawke had private tuition at home, from summer 1879 to October 1881, he played for the York-based Yorkshire Gentlemen's Cricket Club, whose leading light was the Reverend Edmund Carter, a man whose influence would guide Hawke towards the captaincy of Yorkshire.

* The second battle of Cape Finisterre ( 1747 ) on 25 October 1747 was a decisive victory for a British fleet under Admiral Sir Edward Hawke

In 1987 Hawke served as a member of a committee of inquiry appointed by the Chicago Mercantile Exchange to study the role of futures markets in connection with the stock market crash in October of that year.

For the first of these, he raised a large sum and a substantial force, arriving in Damietta on 24 October 1249, after the town had already been captured.

* 1967: Roger Patterson and Robert Gimlin reported that on October 20 they had captured a purported Sasquatch on film at Bluff Creek, California.

By October, another vessel had been captured and added to the small fleet.

At the Battle of Jena-Auerstedt on October 14, 1806 – when Napoleon invaded Prussia and defeated the massed Prussian-Saxon army commanded by Karl Wilhelm Ferdinand, Duke of Brunswick – he was captured, one of the 25, 000 prisoners captured that day as the Prussian army disintegrated.

After a stalemate on the Gaza — Beersheba line between March and October 1917, Beersheba was captured by the Australian Mounted Division's 4th Light Horse Brigade.

On October 14, 1962, a United States Air Force U-2 plane on a photoreconnaissance mission captured photographic proof of Soviet missile bases under construction in Cuba.

None of the 22 had been captured by American or other authorities as of October 2001.

Genscher's popularity with Israel declined further when he endorsed the handing over of the three captured hijackers to the Palestinians following the hijacking of a Lufthansa plane on 29 October 1972.

On 20 October, NTC forces captured Sirte, and in the process captured and killed Muammar Gaddafi.

The French army achieved a resounding victory at Ulm ( 16 – 19 October 1805 ), where an entire Austrian army was captured.

North Korean forces were soon defeated by September and driven northwards by United Nations forces led by the U. S. By October, the U. N. forces had retaken Seoul and captured Pyongyang, and it became Kim's turn to flee.

This even applies to quatrains that contain specific dates, such as III. 77, which predicts ' in 1727, in October, the king of Persia be captured by those of Egypt ' — a prophecy that has, as ever, been interpreted retrospectively in the light of later events, in this case as though it presaged the known peace treaty between the Ottoman Empire and Persia of that year.

During the second Russian-Persian war, Yerevan was captured by Russian troops under general Ivan Paskevich on 1 October 1827.

** Israel withdraws from the Sinai Peninsula ( captured from Egypt on October 29, 1956 ).

* October 8 – Guerrilla leader Che Guevara and his men are captured in Bolivia.

* October 12 – Battle of Tory Island: A British Royal Navy squadron under Sir John Borlase Warren prevents French Republican ships commanded by Jean-Baptiste-François Bompart landing reinforcements for the Society of United Irishmen on the Donegal coast ; Irish leader Wolfe Tone is captured and later dies of wounds.

* October 21 – Nijmegen is captured by Maurice.

* October – Stede Bonnet and his crew are captured near the mouth of the Cape Fear River and taken to Charleston, South Carolina, where they are tried for piracy.

* October 26 – Rouen is captured by Royalist forces under Antoine de Bourbon, King of Navarre, who is mortally wounded.

* October 4 – Leaders of the Second Cornish Uprising surrender to the King at Taunton ; the following day, Warbeck, having deserted his army, is captured at Beaulieu Abbey in Hampshire.

The first sizeable batch of Boer prisoners of war taken by the British consisted of those captured at the Battle of Elandslaagte on 21 October 1899.

After the brief success of the Kerensky Offensive 1 – 19 July and its disastrous sequel, when Ludendorff's general reserve of six divisions captured Riga, 1 – 5 September 1917 and then in Operation Albion September – October 1917 took the islands at the mouth of the Gulf of Riga, British and French commanders on the Western Front had to reckon on the German western army being strengthened by reinforcements from the Eastern Front in late 1917.

Aided by these powerful allies, Afonso captured Lisbon on October 24, 1147.