Page 2: Historical Events In April - 10

1741  On April - 10 prussians defeat Austrians at Mollwitz   

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

1756  Giacomo Antonio Perti, Italian composer, dies at 94 on April - 10.   

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

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

1783  On this day in history 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  Robert Gray is 1st American to circumnavigate the Earth on April - 10.   

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  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 April - 10.   

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 April - 10 2nd Bank of US chartered   

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 this day in history thomas Reade Rootes Cobb, Brig General (Confederate Army)   

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

1826  On April - 10 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 this day in history lewis Wallace, Major General (Union volunteers)/author (Ben Hur)   

1829  On this day in history the birth of William Booth, Foudner of the Salvation Army   

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

1833  On this day in history david McMurtrie Gregg, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers)   

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

1841  The New York Tribune published for the very first time on April - 10.   

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

1845  On April - 10 more than 1,000 buildings damaged by fire in Pittsburgh Pa   

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

1847  Charles Swinnerton Heap, composer on April - 10.   

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1389  Cosimo de' Medici, ruler of Florence (d. 1464) was born on April - 10.   

1512  James V, king of Scotland (1513-42) was born on this day in history.   

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

1583  On this day in history birth of hugo Grotius, Holland, jurist, father of international law   

1633  Werner Fabricius, composer was born on April - 10.   

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

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  Balthazar Huydecoper, Dutch translator/historian was born on April - 10.   

0879  Louis II, the stutterer, King of France (877-79), dies on this day in history.   

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

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 April - 10 machteld, countess of Holland, dies   

1533  Frederik I, King of Denmark/Norway (1523-33), dies at 61 on this day in history.   

1545  On April - 10 death of costanzo Festa, Italian composer   

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