Page 2: Historical Events In April - 10

1741  Prussians defeat Austrians at Mollwitz on April - 10.   

1755  On April - 10 samuel Hahnemann, German physician/originator of homeopathy   

1756  On April - 10 giacomo Antonio Perti, Italian composer, dies at 94   

1760  Gerard George Clifford, head of East-Indian Company, dies at 75 on April - 10.   

1778  On April - 10 william Hazlitt, Maidstone Kent England, essayist/critic   

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  On this day in history 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.   

1790  US Patent system established on this day in history.   

1790  Robert Gray is 1st American to circumnavigate the Earth on April - 10.   

1794  Matthew Calbraith Perry, Commodore, opened Japan on April - 10.   

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

1806  On this day in history leonidas Polk, Lt Gen (Confederate Army), died in 1864   

1808  Auguste Franchomme, composer on April - 10.   

1810  On this day in history konrad Back, composer, dies at 60   

1812  On this day in history 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.   

1815  Austria declares war on realm of Naples on this day in history.   

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

1821  On this day in history 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  On April - 10 thomas Reade Rootes Cobb, Brig General (Confederate Army)   

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

1825  On April - 10 1st hotel in Hawaii opens   

1825  Paul-Louis Courier, (Mere), French writer/interpreter, dies at 53 on April - 10.   

1826  On April - 10 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.   

1827  On April - 10 lewis Wallace, Major General (Union volunteers)/author (Ben Hur)   

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

1829  William Booth, founder (Salvation Army) on this day in history.   

1833  David McMurtrie Gregg, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers) on this day in history.   

1835  Charles Darwin returns to Santiago, Chile on this day in history.   

1841  On April - 10 the New York Tribune published for the very first time   

1841  On this day in history nY "Tribune" begins publishing under editor Horace Greeley   

1845  On this day in history more than 1,000 buildings damaged by fire in Pittsburgh Pa   

1847  The birth of Joseph Pulitzer, American newspaper owner on April - 10.   

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 April - 10.   

1512  James V, king of Scotland (1513-42) was born on this day in history.   

1569  Emilia van Nassau, daughter of Willem of Orange & Anna of Saxon was born on this day in history.   

1583  Hugo Grotius, Holland, jurist, father of international law was born on April - 10.   

1633  On this day in history birth of werner Fabricius, composer   

1651  Ehrenfried Walther von Tschirnhaus, German mathematician (d. 1708) was born on April - 10.   

1656  René Lepage de Ste-Claire, lord-founder of the town of Rimouski, in New France (d. 1718) was born on April - 10.   

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  Hugo van Arles, count of Arles/king of Italy, dies on April - 10.   

0948  Death of King Hugh of Italy on this day in history.   

1008  Notger, bishop of Luik (972-1008), dies on April - 10.   

1362  Machteld, countess of Holland, dies on April - 10.   

1533  On April - 10 frederik I, King of Denmark/Norway (1523-33), dies at 61   

1545  Death of Costanzo Festa, Italian composer on April - 10.   

1585  Gregory XIII, [Ugo Buoncampagni], Italian Pope (1572-85), dies on this day in history.