Historical Events In April - 10
Saturday, 07 September 2024
1741 Prussians defeat Austrians at Mollwitz on April - 10.
1755 Samuel Hahnemann, German physician/originator of homeopathy on this day in history.
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 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 Simon Fokke, book illustrator, dies at 71 on this day in history.
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 On this day in history uS Patent system established
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 April - 10.
1806 Leonidas Polk, Lt Gen (Confederate Army), died in 1864 on April - 10.
1808 Auguste Franchomme, composer on April - 10.
1810 On this day in history 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 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 Thomas Reade Rootes Cobb, Brig General (Confederate Army) on this day in history.
1825 On this day in history nicaraguan constituent assembly meets at Le¢n
1825 1st hotel in Hawaii opens on this day in history.
1825 Paul-Louis Courier, (Mere), French writer/interpreter, dies at 53 on this day in history.
1826 On this day in history 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 this day in history lewis Wallace, Major General (Union volunteers)/author (Ben Hur)
1829 On April - 10 the birth of William Booth, Foudner of the Salvation Army
1829 On April - 10 william Booth, founder (Salvation Army)
1833 David McMurtrie Gregg, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers) on April - 10.
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 On April - 10 nY "Tribune" begins publishing under editor Horace Greeley
1845 On April - 10 more than 1,000 buildings damaged by fire in Pittsburgh Pa
1847 On this day in history the birth of Joseph Pulitzer, American newspaper owner
1847 On this day in history charles Swinnerton Heap, composer
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