About the day » Friday May 10, 1861Calender converter

• Adriana Minderhoud, Westkapelle († 1861)
• Adrianus Henneman, Koedijk († 1911)
• IJsselsteyn, Leiden
• Aaltje Willems Bonestroo, Nunspeet († 1945)
• Aart Izaak Goudswaard, oud-beijerland (zuid holland) († 1863)
• Aaltje Bonestroo, Ermelo († 1945)
• Aaltje de GRAAF, Oskerd, Het Hogeland, Groningen, Netherlands 9988 († 1936)
• Alida Maria Boer, Boskoop, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1935)
• Anna Melet, Leeuwarden, Friesland, Nederland
• Adrianus Franciscus Pelckmans, Merksplas, België

• Adrianus OVERTOOM (77), Schagen, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Adrianus Theodorus Roodenrijs (0), Monster
• Aafke Hendriks Til (66), Nieuweschans,, Groningen, Nederland
• Andries van Doeselaar (73), Zaamslag
• Antje Dekker (65), Monnickendam, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Aleidis Jansen (71), Olburgen (Steenderen)
• Adrianus Alma (62), Bergum, Friesland, Nederland
• Aafje Geel (67), Zijpe
• Aafje Geel (67), Nieuwe Niedorp
• Andries Schrier (Schriers, Schier) (59), Middelburg, Zeeland, Nederland

• 1838 » John Wilkes Booth, American actor, assassin of Abraham Lincoln († 1865)
• 1841 » James Gordon Bennett, Jr., American publisher and broadcaster († 1918)
• 1843 » Benito Pérez Galdós, Spanish author and playwright († 1920)
• 1847 » Wilhelm Killing, German mathematician and academic († 1923)
• 1855 » Yukteswar Giri, Indian guru and educator († 1936)
• 1872 » Marcel Mauss, French sociologist and anthropologist († 1950)
• 1876 » Ivan Cankar, Slovenian poet and playwright († 1918)
• 1878 » Gustav Stresemann, German journalist and politician, Chancellor of Germany, Nobel Prize laureate († 1929)
• 1878 » Konstantinos Parthenis, Greek painter († 1967)
• 1879 » Symon Petliura, Ukrainian journalist and politician († 1926)

• 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)
• 1863 » Stonewall Jackson, American general (b. 1824)
• 1868 » Henry Bennett, American lawyer and politician (b. 1808)
• 1889 » Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin, Russian journalist, author, and playwright (b. 1826)
• 1891 » Carl Nägeli, Swiss botanist and mycologist (b. 1817)
• 1897 » Andrés Bonifacio, Filipino soldier and politician, President of the Philippines (b. 1863)
• 1910 » Stanislao Cannizzaro, Italian chemist and academic (b. 1826)

1. Jan
2. Johannes
3. Cornelis
4. Hendrik
5. Pieter
6. Willem
7. Gerrit
8. Jacob
9. Petrus
10. Jacobus
11. Dirk
12. Adrianus
13. Arie
14. Klaas
15. Hendrikus
16. Albert

1. Maria
2. Johanna
3. Anna
4. Cornelia
5. Elisabeth
6. Catharina
7. Adriana
8. Hendrika
9. Wilhelmina
10. Aaltje
11. Grietje
12. Trijntje
13. Neeltje
14. Antje
15. Elizabeth
16. Mary

• Koning Willem III (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1849 till 1890 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• From February 23, 1860 till March 14, 1861 the Netherlands had a cabinet Van Hall - Van Heemstra with the prime ministers Mr. F.A. baron Van Hall (conservatief-liberaal) and Mr. S. baron Van Heemstra (liberaal).
• From March 14, 1861 till January 31, 1862 the Netherlands had a cabinet Van Zuijlen van Nijevelt - Loudon with the prime ministers Mr. J.P.P. baron Van Zuijlen van Nijevelt (conservatief-liberaal) and Mr. J. Loudon (liberaal).
• The Netherlands had about 3.6 million citizens.
• February 10 » Jefferson Davis is notified by telegraph that he has been chosen as provisional President of the Confederate States of America.
• March 17 » The Kingdom of Italy is proclaimed.
• April 12 » American Civil War: Battle of Fort Sumter. The war begins with Confederate forces firing on Fort Sumter, in the harbor of Charleston, South Carolina.
• May 13 » Pakistan's (then a part of British India) first railway line opens, from Karachi to Kotri.
• June 3 » American Civil War: Battle of Philippi (also called the Philippi Races): Union forces rout Confederate troops in Barbour County, Virginia, now West Virginia.
• December 26 » American Civil War: The Trent Affair: Confederate diplomatic envoys James Murray Mason and John Slidell are freed by the United States government, thus heading off a possible war between the United States and the United Kingdom.

The temperature on May 10, 1861 was about 7.7 °C. There was 14 mm of rain. The air pressure was 6.5 kgf/m² and came mainly from the east-northeast. The airpressure was 75 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 95%.