Page 3: Historical Events In May - 03

1810  On this day in history lord Byron swims Hellespont   

1811  On May - 03 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.   

1815  Battle at Tolentino Austria beats king Joachim of Naples on this day in history.   

1815  On this day in history battle at Tolentino: Austria beats king Joachim of Naples   

1815  On May - 03 hermanus W Witteveen, Dutch theologist   

1816  On this day in history montgomery Cunningham Meigs, Bvt Mjr Gen (Union Army), died in 1892   

1819  On this day in history nicola De Giosa, composer   

1822  Society for the Propagation of the Faith starts (Lyon, France) on May - 03.   

1822  On this day in history society for Propagation of Faith starts (Lyon, France)   

1826  On May - 03 charles XV Louis E, King of Sweden/Norway (1859-72)/poet   

1830  The first regular steam train passenger service starts on this day in history.   

1830  On May - 03 1st regular steam train passenger service starts   

1837  The University of Athens is founded on this day in history.   

1839  On this day in history ferdinando Paer, composer, dies at 67   

1841  New Zealand becomes a British colony on May - 03.   

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

1844  Edouard A Drumont, French anti-semitic journalist on this day in history.   

1845  Fire kills 1,600 in popular theater in Canton China on May - 03.   

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

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

1846  Mexican army surrounds fort in Texas on this day in history.   

1849  On May - 03 the May Uprising in Dresden begins   

1849  On May - 03 jacob Riis, Denmark, reporter (NY Tribune, NY Evening Sun)   

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

1851  Most of SF destroyed by fire; 30 die on this day in history.   

1854  William Beale, composer, dies at 70 on May - 03.   

1855  On May - 03 antwerp-Rotterdam railway opens   

1856  On May - 03 adolfo Fumagalli, composer, dies at 27   

1859  On this day in history andy Adams, US writer (Log of a Cowboy)   

1860  Charles XV of Sweden-Norway is crowned king of Sweden on this day in history.   

1861  On May - 03 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 this day in history.   

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0612  Constantine III, Byzantine Emperor (d. 641) was born on May - 03.   

1415  On this day in history birth of cecily Neville, mother of Edward IV of England and Richard III of England (d. 1495)   

1428  Pedro González de Mendoza, Spanish cardinal and statesman (d. 1495) was born on this day in history.   

1446  On this day in history birth of margaretha, English princess/duchess of Bourgondie   

1446  On May - 03 birth of margaret of York, wife of Charles I, Duke of Burgundy (d. 1503)   

1469  Niccolo Machiavelli, Italy, politician/writer (Prince) was born on this day in history.   

1514  On this day in history birth of bartholomaeus a Martyribus, [Fernandez], primate of Portugal   

1535  On May - 03 birth of alessandro "Agnolo" Allori, Italian painter/carpet designer   

1010  On May - 03 ansfried, 9th bishop of Utrecht (995-1010)/saint, dies at about 69   

1152  On May - 03 death of matilda of Boulogne, Queen of England (b. 1105)   

1160  Death of Peter Lombard, Italian scholar and bishop (b. c.1100) on this day in history.   

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 this day in history alexander V, [Petros Philargi], Kreta's Pope (1409-10), dies   

1442  On this day in history engelbert I, Earl of Nassau-Dillenburg, dies   

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