Historical Events In April - 10

1741  Prussians defeat Austrians at Mollwitz on April - 10.   

1755  On April - 10 samuel Hahnemann, German physician/originator of homeopathy   

1756  On this day in history giacomo Antonio Perti, Italian composer, dies at 94   

1760  Gerard George Clifford, head of East-Indian Company, dies at 75 on April - 10.   

1778  On this day in history william Hazlitt, Maidstone Kent England, essayist/critic   

1783  On April - 10 hortense E de Beauharnais, French queen of Netherlands (1806-10)   

1784  Simon Fokke, book illustrator, dies at 71 on this day in history.   

1790  On this day in history spanish start building forts in Nootka Sound to exploit sea otter harvest; try to head off English traders after the recent visit by Captain Cook.   

1790  On this day in history uS Patent system established   

1790  On this day in history robert Gray is 1st American to circumnavigate the Earth   

1794  Matthew Calbraith Perry, Commodore, opened Japan on this day in history.   

1797  On this day in history claude Ambroise Seurat, Troyes France, (World's skinniest man)   

1806  Leonidas Polk, Lt Gen (Confederate Army), died in 1864 on this day in history.   

1808  Auguste Franchomme, composer on this day in history.   

1810  Konrad Back, composer, dies at 60 on this day in history.   

1812  Washington DC United States calls out the militia in preparation for a war against Britain that will begin June 18; attack on Upper Canada imminent on April - 10.   

1815  Austria declares war on realm of Naples on this day in history.   

1816  2nd Bank of US chartered on this day in history.   

1821  Patriarch Gregory V of Constantinople is hanged by the Turks from the main gate of the Patriarchate and his body is thrown into the Bosphorus on this day in history.   

1823  On April - 10 thomas Reade Rootes Cobb, Brig General (Confederate Army)   

1825  Nicaraguan constituent assembly meets at Le¢n on this day in history.   

1825  On this day in history 1st hotel in Hawaii opens   

1825  On April - 10 paul-Louis Courier, (Mere), French writer/interpreter, dies at 53   

1826  On this day in history the 10,500 inhabitants of the Greek town Messolonghi start leaving the town after a year's siege by Turkish forces. Very few of them survive.   

1827  Lewis Wallace, Major General (Union volunteers)/author (Ben Hur) on April - 10.   

1829  On April - 10 the birth of William Booth, Foudner of the Salvation Army   

1829  On April - 10 william Booth, founder (Salvation Army)   

1833  David McMurtrie Gregg, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers) on this day in history.   

1835  Charles Darwin returns to Santiago, Chile on this day in history.   

1841  The New York Tribune published for the very first time on this day in history.   

1841  NY "Tribune" begins publishing under editor Horace Greeley on this day in history.   

1845  On this day in history more than 1,000 buildings damaged by fire in Pittsburgh Pa   

1847  The birth of Joseph Pulitzer, American newspaper owner on April - 10.   

1847  On this day in history charles Swinnerton Heap, composer   

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1389  On April - 10 birth of cosimo de' Medici, ruler of Florence (d. 1464)   

1512  On April - 10 birth of james V, king of Scotland (1513-42)   

1569  Emilia van Nassau, daughter of Willem of Orange & Anna of Saxon was born on April - 10.   

1583  Hugo Grotius, Holland, jurist, father of international law was born on April - 10.   

1633  On this day in history birth of werner Fabricius, composer   

1651  On this day in history birth of ehrenfried Walther von Tschirnhaus, German mathematician (d. 1708)   

1656  René Lepage de Ste-Claire, lord-founder of the town of Rimouski, in New France (d. 1718) was born on this day in history.   

1695  On this day in history birth of balthazar Huydecoper, Dutch translator/historian   

0879  On April - 10 louis II, the stutterer, King of France (877-79), dies   

0947  On April - 10 hugo van Arles, count of Arles/king of Italy, dies   

0948  On April - 10 death of king Hugh of Italy   

1008  On this day in history notger, bishop of Luik (972-1008), dies   

1362  Machteld, countess of Holland, dies on this day in history.   

1533  On April - 10 frederik I, King of Denmark/Norway (1523-33), dies at 61   

1545  Death of Costanzo Festa, Italian composer on this day in history.   

1585  Gregory XIII, [Ugo Buoncampagni], Italian Pope (1572-85), dies on April - 10.