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  On April - 10 gerard George Clifford, head of East-Indian Company, dies at 75   

1778  On this day in history 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  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  On April - 10 claude Ambroise Seurat, Troyes France, (World's skinniest man)   

1806  Leonidas Polk, Lt Gen (Confederate Army), died in 1864 on this day in history.   

1808  Auguste Franchomme, composer on this day in history.   

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

1816  On this day in history 2nd Bank of US chartered   

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 this day in history.   

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

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

1825  On this day in history paul-Louis Courier, (Mere), French writer/interpreter, dies at 53   

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  Lewis Wallace, Major General (Union volunteers)/author (Ben Hur) on April - 10.   

1829  The birth of William Booth, Foudner of the Salvation Army on this day in history.   

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

1833  David McMurtrie Gregg, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers) on April - 10.   

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

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

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

1845  On this day in history 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 April - 10 charles Swinnerton Heap, composer   

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1389  Cosimo de' Medici, ruler of Florence (d. 1464) was born on April - 10.   

1512  On April - 10 birth of james V, king of Scotland (1513-42)   

1569  On this day in history birth of emilia van Nassau, daughter of Willem of Orange & Anna of Saxon   

1583  Hugo Grotius, Holland, jurist, father of international law was born on this day in history.   

1633  On April - 10 birth of werner Fabricius, composer   

1651  On this day in history birth of ehrenfried Walther von Tschirnhaus, German mathematician (d. 1708)   

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 this day in history birth of balthazar Huydecoper, Dutch translator/historian   

0879  On this day in history louis II, the stutterer, King of France (877-79), dies   

0947  Hugo van Arles, count of Arles/king of Italy, dies on this day in history.   

0948  Death of King Hugh of Italy on April - 10.   

1008  Notger, bishop of Luik (972-1008), dies on this day in history.   

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 this day in history death of costanzo Festa, Italian composer   

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