Page 3: Historical Events In May - 03

1810  On May - 03 lord Byron swims Hellespont   

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 this day in history.   

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

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

1815  Hermanus W Witteveen, Dutch theologist on this day in history.   

1816  On May - 03 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 May - 03 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 May - 03.   

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

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 May - 03.   

1841  On this day in history cornelis T Elout, Dutch minister of Finance/Navy/Colonies, dies at 74   

1844  Edouard A Drumont, French anti-semitic journalist on May - 03.   

1845  On this day in history fire kills 1,600 in popular theater in Canton China   

1845  The first black lawyer (Macon B Allen) admitted to the bar (Massachusetts) on May - 03.   

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

1846  Mexican army surrounds fort in Texas on May - 03.   

1849  On this day in history the May Uprising in Dresden begins   

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

1851  On this day in history 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  On this day in history adolfo Fumagalli, composer, dies at 27   

1859  On May - 03 andy Adams, US writer (Log of a Cowboy)   

1860  On this day in history charles XV of Sweden-Norway is crowned king of Sweden.   

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

1861  On this day in history lincoln asks for 42,000 Army Volunteers &another 18,000 seamen   

1861  Gen Winfield Scott presents his Anaconda Plan on this day in history.   

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

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0612  On May - 03 birth of constantine III, Byzantine Emperor (d. 641)   

1415  On May - 03 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 May - 03.   

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 May - 03 birth of bartholomaeus a Martyribus, [Fernandez], primate of Portugal   

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

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

1152  Death of Matilda of Boulogne, Queen of England (b. 1105) on May - 03.   

1160  Death of Peter Lombard, Italian scholar and bishop (b. c.1100) on May - 03.   

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

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

1481  On this day in history death of mehmed II, Ottoman Sultan (b. 1432)