Historical Events In April - 10

1741  On this day in history prussians defeat Austrians at Mollwitz  

1755  Samuel Hahnemann, German physician/originator of homeopathy on April - 10.  

1756  Giacomo Antonio Perti, Italian composer, dies at 94 on this day in history.  

1760  Gerard George Clifford, head of East-Indian Company, dies at 75 on this day in history.  

1778  William Hazlitt, Maidstone Kent England, essayist/critic on this day in history.  

1783  Hortense E de Beauharnais, French queen of Netherlands (1806-10) on April - 10.  

1784  On this day in history simon Fokke, book illustrator, dies at 71  

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 April - 10.  

1790  On April - 10 uS Patent system established  

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

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  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  On this day in history 2nd Bank of US chartered  

1821  On April - 10 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  On April - 10 thomas Reade Rootes Cobb, Brig General (Confederate Army)  

1825  On April - 10 nicaraguan constituent assembly meets at Le¢n  

1825  1st hotel in Hawaii opens on April - 10.  

1825  Paul-Louis Courier, (Mere), French writer/interpreter, dies at 53 on this day in history.  

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  On April - 10 lewis Wallace, Major General (Union volunteers)/author (Ben Hur)  

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

1829  On this day in history 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 April - 10.  

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 April - 10.  

1845  More than 1,000 buildings damaged by fire in Pittsburgh Pa on this day in history.  

1847  On April - 10 the birth of Joseph Pulitzer, American newspaper owner  

1847  On this day in history charles Swinnerton Heap, composer  

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1389  Cosimo de' Medici, ruler of Florence (d. 1464) was born on this day in history.  

1512  James V, king of Scotland (1513-42) was born on April - 10.  

1569  Emilia van Nassau, daughter of Willem of Orange & Anna of Saxon was born on this day in history.  

1583  Hugo Grotius, Holland, jurist, father of international law was born on this day in history.  

1633  Werner Fabricius, composer was born on this day in history.  

1651  On April - 10 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  Balthazar Huydecoper, Dutch translator/historian was born on this day in history.  

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

0947  On this day in history hugo van Arles, count of Arles/king of Italy, dies  

0948  Death of King Hugh of Italy on this day in history.  

1008  Notger, bishop of Luik (972-1008), dies on this day in history.  

1362  On this day in history machteld, countess of Holland, dies  

1533  Frederik I, King of Denmark/Norway (1523-33), dies at 61 on April - 10.  

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

1585  Gregory XIII, [Ugo Buoncampagni], Italian Pope (1572-85), dies on this day in history.