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Historical Events In May - 10
Wednesday, 08 February 2023
0238 Gaius Julius Verus Maximinus, the Thracian, Roman Emperor, murdered on this day in history. 
0995 On May - 10 boudouin, bishop of Utrecht
1267 On May - 10 vienna's church orders all Jews to wear a distinctive garb
1278 On this day in history jews of England imprisoned on charges of coining
1291 On May - 10 scottish nobles recognize authority of English king Edward I
1424 Go-Kameyama, Emperor of Japan on this day in history.
1427 Jews are expelled from Berne Switzerland on May - 10.
1493 On this day in history colin Campbell, 1st Earl of Argyll, Scottish politician
1497 On this day in history italian navigator Amerigo Vespucci leaves for first voyage to New World
1497 On this day in history italian navigator Amerigo Vespucci leaves for 1st voyage to New World
1503 Columbus discovers Cayman Islands on May - 10.
1525 On this day in history church reformer John Pistorius caught in the Hague
1534 French navigator Jacques Cartier reaches Newfoundland on May - 10.
1534 Off Cape Bonavista Newfoundland Jacques Cartier 1491-1557 sights Cape Bonavista after three week crossing from France; stopped ten days by ice; then skirts east coast of Newfoundland; his first voyage to Canada on May - 10.
1536 On May - 10 thomas Howard, 4th duke of Norfolk, English Earl Marshall
1559 Scottish Protestants under John Knox uprise against queen-mother Mary on May - 10.
1566 Leonhard Fuchs, German botanist, dies at 65 on May - 10.
1569 On May - 10 juan the Avila, Spanish minister/writer
1570 Czar Ivan IV becomes Protestant on May - 10.
1618 On May - 10 haeuik Claezoon Van Hillegom, captain of the Dutch ship Zeewolf, records that he has sighted the coast of what is later to be named Australia.
1624 On May - 10 jacob Willekens & Piet Heyn conquer Salvador, Civil rights activist
1637 Susanna van Baerle, Dutch wife of Constantine Huygens, dies at 37 on May - 10.
1652 John Johnson, a free black, is granted 550 acres in Northampton VA on May - 10.
1652 John Johnson, a free black, is granted 550 acres in Northampton, Va on this day in history.
1653 John Bicker, ship builder/merchant/regent, dies at 61 on May - 10.
1655 Jamaica captured by English on May - 10.
1676 On this day in history bacon's Rebellion, frontiersmen vs Virginia Government begins
1676 Bacon's Rebellion, frontiersmen vs Virginia govt begins on this day in history.
1697 On this day in history jean Marie I'aine Leclair, composer
1705 Gallus Zeiler, composer on May - 10.
1710 On May - 10 georg Dietrich Leiding, composer, dies at 46
1724 Johan A Zoutman, Dutch lt-admiral (battle of Doggersbank) on May - 10.
1727 On May - 10 anne-Robert-Jacques Turgot, French minister of Finance (17.. -76)
1730 George Ross, US judge (signed Declaration of Independence) on this day in history.
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