Page 2: Historical Events In April - 10

1741  On April - 10 prussians defeat Austrians at Mollwitz   

1755  Samuel Hahnemann, German physician/originator of homeopathy on April - 10.   

1756  Giacomo Antonio Perti, Italian composer, dies at 94 on April - 10.   

1760  Gerard George Clifford, head of East-Indian Company, dies at 75 on this day in history.   

1778  William Hazlitt, Maidstone Kent England, essayist/critic on this day in history.   

1783  On this day in history hortense E de Beauharnais, French queen of Netherlands (1806-10)   

1784  On this day in history simon Fokke, book illustrator, dies at 71   

1790  Spanish start building forts in Nootka Sound to exploit sea otter harvest; try to head off English traders after the recent visit by Captain Cook on this day in history.   

1790  US Patent system established on this day in history.   

1790  On April - 10 robert Gray is 1st American to circumnavigate the Earth   

1794  On this day in history matthew Calbraith Perry, Commodore, opened Japan   

1797  Claude Ambroise Seurat, Troyes France, (World's skinniest man) on this day in history.   

1806  On April - 10 leonidas Polk, Lt Gen (Confederate Army), died in 1864   

1808  On April - 10 auguste Franchomme, composer   

1810  On April - 10 konrad Back, composer, dies at 60   

1812  Washington DC United States calls out the militia in preparation for a war against Britain that will begin June 18; attack on Upper Canada imminent on this day in history.   

1815  On this day in history austria declares war on realm of Naples   

1816  2nd Bank of US chartered on April - 10.   

1821  On April - 10 patriarch Gregory V of Constantinople is hanged by the Turks from the main gate of the Patriarchate and his body is thrown into the Bosphorus.   

1823  Thomas Reade Rootes Cobb, Brig General (Confederate Army) on April - 10.   

1825  On April - 10 nicaraguan constituent assembly meets at Le¢n   

1825  1st hotel in Hawaii opens on April - 10.   

1825  On April - 10 paul-Louis Courier, (Mere), French writer/interpreter, dies at 53   

1826  The 10,500 inhabitants of the Greek town Messolonghi start leaving the town after a year's siege by Turkish forces. Very few of them survive on this day in history.   

1827  Lewis Wallace, Major General (Union volunteers)/author (Ben Hur) on this day in history.   

1829  The birth of William Booth, Foudner of the Salvation Army on April - 10.   

1829  On this day in history william Booth, founder (Salvation Army)   

1833  On this day in history david McMurtrie Gregg, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers)   

1835  On April - 10 charles Darwin returns to Santiago, Chile   

1841  The New York Tribune published for the very first time on April - 10.   

1841  NY "Tribune" begins publishing under editor Horace Greeley on this day in history.   

1845  On April - 10 more than 1,000 buildings damaged by fire in Pittsburgh Pa   

1847  The birth of Joseph Pulitzer, American newspaper owner on this day in history.   

1847  Charles Swinnerton Heap, composer on this day in history.   

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1389  Cosimo de' Medici, ruler of Florence (d. 1464) was born on this day in history.   

1512  On this day in history birth of james V, king of Scotland (1513-42)   

1569  On April - 10 birth of emilia van Nassau, daughter of Willem of Orange & Anna of Saxon   

1583  On this day in history birth of hugo Grotius, Holland, jurist, father of international law   

1633  On April - 10 birth of werner Fabricius, composer   

1651  Ehrenfried Walther von Tschirnhaus, German mathematician (d. 1708) was born on this day in history.   

1656  On April - 10 birth of rené Lepage de Ste-Claire, lord-founder of the town of Rimouski, in New France (d. 1718)   

1695  On April - 10 birth of balthazar Huydecoper, Dutch translator/historian   

0879  Louis II, the stutterer, King of France (877-79), dies on this day in history.   

0947  On this day in history hugo van Arles, count of Arles/king of Italy, dies   

0948  On April - 10 death of king Hugh of Italy   

1008  On April - 10 notger, bishop of Luik (972-1008), dies   

1362  On this day in history machteld, countess of Holland, dies   

1533  Frederik I, King of Denmark/Norway (1523-33), dies at 61 on this day in history.   

1545  On April - 10 death of costanzo Festa, Italian composer   

1585  On this day in history gregory XIII, [Ugo Buoncampagni], Italian Pope (1572-85), dies