Historical Events In May - 10
Tuesday, 17 February 2026
0238 Gaius Julius Verus Maximinus, the Thracian, Roman Emperor, murdered 

0995 Boudouin, bishop of Utrecht 

1267 Vienna's church orders all Jews to wear a distinctive garb 

1278 Jews of England imprisoned on charges of coining. 

1291 Scottish nobles recognize authority of English king Edward I 

1424 Go-Kameyama, Emperor of Japan. 

1427 Jews are expelled from Berne Switzerland. 

1493 Colin Campbell, 1st Earl of Argyll, Scottish politician 

1497 Italian navigator Amerigo Vespucci leaves for inaugural voyage to New World 

1497 Italian navigator Amerigo Vespucci leaves for 1st voyage to New World. 

1503 Columbus discovers Cayman Islands 

1525 Church reformer John Pistorius caught in the Hague. 

1534 French navigator Jacques Cartier reaches Newfoundland. 

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 inaugural voyage to Canada 

1536 Thomas Howard, 4th duke of Norfolk, English Earl Marshall. 

1559 Scottish Protestants under John Knox uprise against queen-mother Mary. 

1566 Leonhard Fuchs, German botanist, dies at 65. 

1569 Juan the Avila, Spanish minister/writer 

1570 Czar Ivan IV is recorded as becoming Protestant 

1618 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 Jacob Willekens and Piet Heyn conquer Salvador, Civil rights activist. 

1637 Susanna van Baerle, Dutch wife of Constantine Huygens, dies at 37 

1652 John Johnson, a free black, is granted 550 acres in Northampton VA. 

1652 John Johnson, a free black, is granted 550 acres in Northampton, Va. 

1653 John Bicker, ship builder/merchant/regent, dies at 61. 

1655 Jamaica captured by English 

1676 Bacon's Rebellion, frontiersmen vs Virginia Government begins. 

1676 Bacon's Rebellion, frontiersmen vs Virginia govt begins. 

1697 Jean Marie I'aine Leclair, composer. 

1705 Gallus Zeiler, composer. 

1710 Georg Dietrich Leiding, composer, dies at 46 

1724 Johan A Zoutman, Dutch lt-admiral (battle of Doggersbank) 

1727 Anne-Robert-Jacques Turgot, French minister of Finance (17.. -76) 

1730 George Ross, US judge (signed Declaration of Independence) 

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