1836. Caleb P. Bennett, governor of the state of Delaware, died, aged 78. He was the last surviving officer of the Delaware regiment in the revolutionary army.
1846. Battle of Resaca de la Palma and death of major Samuel Ringgold, whose place of sepulture in Baltimore is surrounded by an inclosure of Mexican bayonets.
1846. Charles Turner Torrey died in the jail at Baltimore, Maryland, while sustaining an imprisonment for a breach of the laws of Maryland in relation to kidnapping slaves.
1853. An earthquake completely destroyed Schiraz in Persia; 12,000 lives were lost.
1854. An imperial ukase in Russia called for nine men out of every thousand souls of the "eleventh ordinary partial levy in the eastern portion of the empire," and, independently of this, three recruits out of every thousand souls to bring up arrears; the Jews furnishing ten men out of a thousand.
MAY 10.
664. The memorable pestilence in Ireland began.
1307. Battle of Loudown hill; Bruce defeated Aylmer de Valence, earl of Pembroke.
1422. Henry V reduced Meaux, after a siege of 7 months.
1503. Columbus discovered the Tortugas islands.