Page 2: Historical Events In April - 10

1741  On this day in history prussians defeat Austrians at Mollwitz   

1755  On this day in history 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 this day in history.   

1778  On April - 10 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 April - 10.   

1790  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 on this day in history.   

1790  On this day in history uS Patent system established   

1790  Robert Gray is 1st American to circumnavigate the Earth on April - 10.   

1794  On April - 10 matthew Calbraith Perry, Commodore, opened Japan   

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

1806  On April - 10 leonidas Polk, Lt Gen (Confederate Army), died in 1864   

1808  On this day in history auguste Franchomme, composer   

1810  On this day in history konrad Back, composer, dies at 60   

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 April - 10.   

1816  On this day in history 2nd Bank of US chartered   

1821  On this day in history 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.   

1823  Thomas Reade Rootes Cobb, Brig General (Confederate Army) on this day in history.   

1825  On this day in history nicaraguan constituent assembly meets at Le¢n   

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

1825  On this day in history paul-Louis Courier, (Mere), French writer/interpreter, dies at 53   

1826  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 on April - 10.   

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  William Booth, founder (Salvation Army) on April - 10.   

1833  On April - 10 david McMurtrie Gregg, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers)   

1835  On April - 10 charles Darwin returns to Santiago, Chile   

1841  On April - 10 the New York Tribune published for the very first time   

1841  NY "Tribune" begins publishing under editor Horace Greeley on April - 10.   

1845  More than 1,000 buildings damaged by fire in Pittsburgh Pa on April - 10.   

1847  On this day in history the birth of Joseph Pulitzer, American newspaper owner   

1847  On April - 10 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  Ehrenfried Walther von Tschirnhaus, German mathematician (d. 1708) was born on this day in history.   

1656  On this day in history birth of rené Lepage de Ste-Claire, lord-founder of the town of Rimouski, in New France (d. 1718)   

1695  On April - 10 birth of balthazar Huydecoper, Dutch translator/historian   

0879  Louis II, the stutterer, King of France (877-79), dies on April - 10.   

0947  Hugo van Arles, count of Arles/king of Italy, dies on this day in history.   

0948  On April - 10 death of king Hugh of Italy   

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

1362  On April - 10 machteld, countess of Holland, dies   

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

1545  On this day in history death of costanzo Festa, Italian composer   

1585  On this day in history gregory XIII, [Ugo Buoncampagni], Italian Pope (1572-85), dies