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Monday, 11 May 2026
1710 Antonius Matthaeus, Dutch lawyer/historian, dies at 74 
1716 Eugenius of Savoye named land guardian of Austrian Netherlands.
1726 Thomas Pennant, British naturalist.
1735 Benvenuto Robbio San Rafaele, composer.
1749 General fast because of drought in MA
1767 Georg Philipp Telemann, German late-barok composer, dies at 86
1785 Pierre Talon, composer, dies at 63.
1788 The Virginia colony including Jamestown, the inaugural permanent English settlement in North America, entered the United States of America as the tenth state.
1788 Virginia is recorded as becoming 10th state to ratify US constitution.
1794 French troops occupy Charleroi.
1796 Ferdinando Giorgetti, composer
1798 US passes Alien Act allowing president to deport dangerous aliens
1813 William Hugh Keim, Brig General (Union volunteers), died in 1862.
1822 Ernst T Amadeus Hoffmann, German writer/judge/composer, dies at 46.
1823 James Dunwody Bulloch, Capt (Confederate Navy), died in 1901
1834 Pope Gregory XVI's encyclical "Singulari nos" published.
1835 inaugural building constructed at Yerba Buena (now SF).
1835 1st building constructed at Yerba Buena (now SF).
1840 Leopold count of Limburg Stirum, Dutch general/politician, dies at 82
1844 John Tyler took Julia Gardiner as his bride, thus becoming the inaugural U.S. President to marry while in office
1858 Georges Courteline, [Moineaux], French playwright
1860 Gustave Charpentier, French composer (opera Louise)
1861 Western Virginia campaign.
1862 Day 1 of the 7 Days begins with fighting at Oak Grove
1862 Battle of Oak Grove, VA (Orchard, Henrico, French's Field) (Kings's Schoolhouse) Day 1 of 7 Days
1862 Vasily Georgiyevich Wrangell, composer
1863 In this year, US General George Meade adopts in place of General Hooker to be more aggressive
1864 Petersburg Campaign-Federals begin digging tunnels under Reb lines.
1864 Horse tramway at the Hague, opens.
1864 Walther Hermann Nernst, Prussian physicist/chemist (Nobel 1920).
1865 Robert Henri, US painter, leader of Ashcan school.
1867 Barbed wire patented
1867 1st barbed wire patented by Lucien B Smith of Ohio
1868 FL, AL, LA, GA, NC and SC readmitted to US.
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