Historical Events In May - 03

1810  Lord Byron swims Hellespont on May - 03.  

1811  Thomas Douglas, Lord Selkirk purchases 300,000 sq km of Manitoba from the Hudson's Bay Company for a Red River colony named to be named Assiniboia on May - 03.  

1815  Battle at Tolentino Austria beats king Joachim of Naples on May - 03.  

1815  On May - 03 battle at Tolentino: Austria beats king Joachim of Naples  

1815  On this day in history hermanus W Witteveen, Dutch theologist  

1816  On May - 03 montgomery Cunningham Meigs, Bvt Mjr Gen (Union Army), died in 1892  

1819  On May - 03 nicola De Giosa, composer  

1822  On May - 03 society for the Propagation of the Faith starts (Lyon, France)  

1822  On May - 03 society for Propagation of Faith starts (Lyon, France)  

1826  Charles XV Louis E, King of Sweden/Norway (1859-72)/poet on this day in history.  

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1830  The first regular steam train passenger service starts on May - 03.  

1830  On this day in history 1st regular steam train passenger service starts  

1837  On this day in history the University of Athens is founded.  

1839  Ferdinando Paer, composer, dies at 67 on May - 03.  

1841  New Zealand becomes a British colony on this day in history.  

1841  On May - 03 cornelis T Elout, Dutch minister of Finance/Navy/Colonies, dies at 74  

1844  On May - 03 edouard A Drumont, French anti-semitic journalist  

1845  On May - 03 fire kills 1,600 in popular theater in Canton China  

1845  The first black lawyer (Macon B Allen) admitted to the bar (Massachusetts) on this day in history.  

1845  1st black lawyer (Macon B Allen) admitted to bar (Mass) on this day in history.  

1846  On May - 03 mexican army surrounds fort in Texas  

1849  On May - 03 the May Uprising in Dresden begins  

1849  On this day in history jacob Riis, Denmark, reporter (NY Tribune, NY Evening Sun)  

1851  On May - 03 most of San Fransisco destroyed by fire; 30 die  

1851  On May - 03 most of SF destroyed by fire; 30 die  

1854  On May - 03 william Beale, composer, dies at 70  

1855  On May - 03 antwerp-Rotterdam railway opens  

1856  Adolfo Fumagalli, composer, dies at 27 on this day in history.  

1859  Andy Adams, US writer (Log of a Cowboy) on this day in history.  

1860  On May - 03 charles XV of Sweden-Norway is crowned king of Sweden.  

1861  On this day in history general Winfield Scott presents his Anaconda Plan  

1861  Lincoln asks for 42,000 Army Volunteers &another 18,000 seamen on May - 03.  

1861  Gen Winfield Scott presents his Anaconda Plan on May - 03.  

1861  Anthony Philip Heinrich, composer, dies at 80 on May - 03.  

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0612  Constantine III, Byzantine Emperor (d. 641) was born on this day in history.  

1415  Cecily Neville, mother of Edward IV of England and Richard III of England (d. 1495) was born on May - 03.  

1428  On this day in history birth of pedro González de Mendoza, Spanish cardinal and statesman (d. 1495)  

1446  Margaretha, English princess/duchess of Bourgondie was born on this day in history.  

1446  Margaret of York, wife of Charles I, Duke of Burgundy (d. 1503) was born on this day in history.  

1469  On this day in history birth of niccolo Machiavelli, Italy, politician/writer (Prince)  

1514  Bartholomaeus a Martyribus, [Fernandez], primate of Portugal was born on this day in history.  

1535  On this day in history birth of alessandro "Agnolo" Allori, Italian painter/carpet designer  

1010  Ansfried, 9th bishop of Utrecht (995-1010)/saint, dies at about 69 on this day in history.  

1152  Death of Matilda of Boulogne, Queen of England (b. 1105) on this day in history.  

1160  On May - 03 death of peter Lombard, Italian scholar and bishop (b. c.1100)  

1270  On this day in history death of king Béla IV of Hungary (b. 1206)  

1294  On May - 03 jan I, duke of Brabant/Limburg/poet, dies  

1410  On May - 03 alexander V, [Petros Philargi], Kreta's Pope (1409-10), dies  

1442  Engelbert I, Earl of Nassau-Dillenburg, dies on this day in history.  

1481  Death of Mehmed II, Ottoman Sultan (b. 1432) on this day in history.