Historical Events In May - 10
Sunday, 16 February 2025
0238 On this day in history gaius Julius Verus Maximinus, the Thracian, Roman Emperor, murdered
0995 Boudouin, bishop of Utrecht on May - 10.
1267 Vienna's church orders all Jews to wear a distinctive garb on May - 10.
1278 Jews of England imprisoned on charges of coining on May - 10.
1291 Scottish nobles recognize authority of English king Edward I on this day in history.
1424 On this day in history go-Kameyama, Emperor of Japan
1427 Jews are expelled from Berne Switzerland on May - 10.
1493 On May - 10 colin Campbell, 1st Earl of Argyll, Scottish politician
1497 Italian navigator Amerigo Vespucci leaves for first voyage to New World on this day in history.
1497 Italian navigator Amerigo Vespucci leaves for 1st voyage to New World on this day in history.
1503 On May - 10 columbus discovers Cayman Islands
1525 Church reformer John Pistorius caught in the Hague on this day in history.
1534 On this day in history 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 first voyage to Canada on May - 10.
1536 On May - 10 thomas Howard, 4th duke of Norfolk, English Earl Marshall
1559 Scottish Protestants under John Knox uprise against queen-mother Mary on this day in history.
1566 Leonhard Fuchs, German botanist, dies at 65 on this day in history.
1569 On this day in history juan the Avila, Spanish minister/writer
1570 On May - 10 czar Ivan IV becomes Protestant
1618 On this day in history 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 On this day in history jacob Willekens & Piet Heyn conquer Salvador, Civil rights activist
1637 On this day in history susanna van Baerle, Dutch wife of Constantine Huygens, dies at 37
1652 On this day in history john Johnson, a free black, is granted 550 acres in Northampton VA
1652 On this day in history john Johnson, a free black, is granted 550 acres in Northampton, Va
1653 On May - 10 john Bicker, ship builder/merchant/regent, dies at 61
1655 Jamaica captured by English on this day in history.
1676 Bacon's Rebellion, frontiersmen vs Virginia Government begins on May - 10.
1676 On this day in history bacon's Rebellion, frontiersmen vs Virginia govt begins
1697 Jean Marie I'aine Leclair, composer on this day in history.
1705 Gallus Zeiler, composer on this day in history.
1710 On May - 10 georg Dietrich Leiding, composer, dies at 46
1724 On May - 10 johan A Zoutman, Dutch lt-admiral (battle of Doggersbank)
1727 On this day in history anne-Robert-Jacques Turgot, French minister of Finance (17.. -76)
1730 George Ross, US judge (signed Declaration of Independence) on May - 10.
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