What happend on 1st October

30.09
02.10
1869

Austria issues the world's first postcards.

1854

The watch company founded in 1850 in Roxbury by Aaron Lufkin Dennison relocates to Waltham, Massachusetts, to become the Waltham Watch Company, a pioneer in the American System of Watch Manufacturing.

1847

German inventor and industrialist Werner von Siemens founds Siemens AG & Halske.

1843

News of the World began publication in London.

1829

South African College is founded in Cape Town, South Africa; later to become the University of Cape Town.

1814

Opening of the Congress of Vienna, intended to redraw the Europe's political map after the defeat of Napoleon the previous spring.

1811

The first steamboat to sail the Mississippi River arrives in New Orleans, Louisiana.

1800

Spain cedes Louisiana to France via the Treaty of San Ildefonso.

1795

Belgium is conquered by France.

1791

First session of the French Legislative Assembly.