About the day » Friday May 10, 1748Calender converter

• Boukjen Thijssens de Vries, Hardegarijp († 1820)
• Baukje Tysses (Boukje, Baukjen Thijsses, Tijsses) de Vries, Hardegarijp, Tietjerksteradeel, Friesland, Nederland († 1820)
• Adriana (Maartense) Blok, gravenhage-scheveningen († 1832)
• Arnoldus VAN BRAGHT, Mierlo,,Noord-Brabant,PAYS BAS
• Baukjen Tijsses De Vries, Hardegarijp, Tytsjerksteradiel, Friesland, Netherlands († 1820)
• Abraham PRAASTINK, Zelhem, Gelderland, NEDERLAND († 1831)
• Baukje Thijsses Croll, Hardegarijp, Tytsjerksteradiel, Friesland, Netherlands
• Anna Catharina Köhlen, Sittard
• Adam Spijker, Ruurlo
• Baukje Tijsen, Hardegarijp, Friesland, Netherlands († 1820)

• Joannes Antoen (52), Geetbets, V-Br, BE
• Catharina Kerschots (40), Zandvliet
• Aldegonde Bauters (56), Sint-Maria-Horebeke (Horebeke)
• Cornelis Fons (0), Maasland
• Elisabeth Fransen (62), Sint Pieter, Maastricht, Limburg, Netherlands
• Adriana Jans van Andel (0), Andel, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Jean Hennau, Tongrinne
• Anton Adolf Wasaborg (59)
• Anneke Marcelisse
• Johanna Pietersd WUIJSTER (1)

• 1697 » Jean-Marie Leclair, French violinist and composer († 1764)
• 1727 » Anne-Robert-Jacques Turgot, Baron de Laune, French economist and politician († 1781)
• 1755 » Robert Gray, American captain and explorer († 1806)
• 1760 » Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle, French captain, engineer, and composer († 1836)
• 1760 » Johann Peter Hebel, German author and poet († 1826)
• 1770 » Louis-Nicolas Davout, French general and politician, French Minister of War († 1823)
• 1788 » Augustin-Jean Fresnel, French physicist and engineer († 1827)
• 1812 » William Henry Barlow, English engineer († 1902)
• 1813 » Montgomery Blair, American lieutenant and politician, 20th United States Postmaster General († 1883)
• 1838 » John Wilkes Booth, American actor, assassin of Abraham Lincoln († 1865)

• 1717 » John Hathorne, American merchant and politician (b. 1641)
• 1726 » Charles Beauclerk, 1st Duke of St Albans, English soldier and politician, Lord Lieutenant of Berkshire (b. 1670)
• 1774 » Louis XV of France (b. 1710)
• 1787 » William Watson, English physician, physicist, and botanist (b. 1715)
• 1794 » Élisabeth of France, French princess and youngest sibling of Louis XVI (b.1764)
• 1798 » George Vancouver, English navigator and explorer (b. 1757)
• 1807 » Jean-Baptiste Donatien de Vimeur, comte de Rochambeau, French general (b. 1725)
• 1818 » Paul Revere, American engraver and soldier (b. 1735)
• 1829 » Thomas Young, English physician and linguist (b. 1773)
• 1849 » Hokusai, Japanese painter and illustrator (b. 1760)

• Erfstadhouder Prins Willem IV (Huis van Oranje) was from 1747 till 1751 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Republiek der Zeven Verenigde Nederlanden)
• June 11 » Denmark adopts the characteristic Nordic Cross flag later taken up by all other Scandinavian countries.
• August 26 » The first Lutheran denomination in North America, the Pennsylvania Ministerium, is founded in Philadelphia.
• October 12 » War of Jenkins' Ear: A British squadron wins a tactical victory over a Spanish squadron off Havana.
• October 18 » Signing of the Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle ends the War of the Austrian Succession.

The temperature on May 10, 1748 was about 13.0 °C. Wind direction mainly west-southwest. Weather type: omtrent helder.