Historical Events In April - 10

1741  On this day in history prussians defeat Austrians at Mollwitz  

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 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 April - 10 simon Fokke, book illustrator, dies at 71  

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 April - 10 uS Patent system established  

1790  On April - 10 robert Gray is 1st American to circumnavigate the Earth  

1794  Matthew Calbraith Perry, Commodore, opened Japan on April - 10.  

1797  Claude Ambroise Seurat, Troyes France, (World's skinniest man) on this day in history.  

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

1808  Auguste Franchomme, composer on this day in history.  

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  On this day in history austria declares war on realm of Naples  

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  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 April - 10 1st hotel in Hawaii opens  

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

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  Lewis Wallace, Major General (Union volunteers)/author (Ben Hur) on this day in history.  

1829  The birth of William Booth, Foudner of the Salvation Army on this day in history.  

1829  William Booth, founder (Salvation Army) on this day in history.  

1833  David McMurtrie Gregg, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers) on April - 10.  

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  On this day in history nY "Tribune" begins publishing under editor Horace Greeley  

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 this day in history.  

1847  On April - 10 charles Swinnerton Heap, composer  

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

1512  On this day in history birth of james V, king of Scotland (1513-42)  

1569  On this day in history birth of emilia van Nassau, daughter of Willem of Orange & Anna of Saxon  

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

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

1651  Ehrenfried Walther von Tschirnhaus, German mathematician (d. 1708) was born on April - 10.  

1656  On April - 10 birth of rené Lepage de Ste-Claire, lord-founder of the town of Rimouski, in New France (d. 1718)  

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

1008  Notger, bishop of Luik (972-1008), dies on April - 10.  

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

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

1545  Death of Costanzo Festa, Italian composer on April - 10.  

1585  On April - 10 gregory XIII, [Ugo Buoncampagni], Italian Pope (1572-85), dies