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January 10 in history

201 sourced entries recorded on January 10, from 49 BCE to 2025 CE. Every line is quoted from the revision it came from.

Events

  • 69Lucius Calpurnius Piso Licinianus is adopted by Galba and appointed to deputy Roman Emperor.source
  • 236Pope Fabian succeeds Pope Anterus as the twentieth pope.source
  • 314Pope Miltiades' reign ends.source
  • 1072The Normans under Robert Guiscard and his brother Roger I ("Boso") conquer Palermo (after a one year siege). Roger receives the keys of the city, and Robert invests him with the title of Count of Sicily. The Emirate of Sicily rules only the southern part of the island, with Syracuse as the capital (until 1091).source
  • 1358Muhammad II as Said becomes ruler of the Marinid dynasty in modern-day Morocco after the assassination of Abu Inan Faris.source
  • 1394Antonio Venier, Doge of the Republic of Venice appoints Desiderato Lucio as the Grand Chancellor. Lucio serves until April 23, 1396.source
  • 1395Smil Flaška of Pardubice, the Supreme Provincial Scribe of the Kingdom of Bohemia, joins the League of Lords (Panská jednota), a group of nobles opposed to the rule of King Wenceslaus IV.source
  • 1411At Anhilpur Patan in the modern-day state of Gujarat in India, Ahmad Shah I becomes the new Sultan of Gujarat upon the death of his grandfather, Muzaffar Shah I.source
  • 1422Hussite Wars – Battle of Německý Brod: The Hussites defeat an army of Royalist Crusaders.source
  • 1430Philip the Good founds the Order of the Golden Fleece.source
  • 1430Philip the Good founds the Order of the Golden Fleece.source
  • 1439Pope Eugene IV, who had convened the Council of Ferrara a year earlier to fight the reforms of the Council of Basel, orders the transfer of its participants from Ferrara to Florence.source
  • 1475At the Battle of Vaslui during the Moldavian–Ottoman Wars, in what is now Romania, Stephen III of Moldavia leads his troops to defeat Ottoman invaders commanded by General Hadım Suleiman Pasha.source
  • 1514A great fire breaks out, in the Rialto of Venice.source
  • 1556Breeding farms for cattle and horses are introduced by decree of the monarch.source
  • 1590Construction of the Fortezza Nuova around the city of Livorno begins in Italy in the Grand Duchy of Tuscany on the orders of Ferdinando I de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany and continues for more than 14 years.source
  • 1612Gustavus Adolphus replies to Metropolitan Isidor, Odoevskij and the estates of Novgorod, stating that he himself wishes to assume responsibility for the government of Novgorod and also of all Russians. A number of land grants signed the same day show that the Swedish king has assumed the title of Tsar.source
  • 1616English diplomat Sir Thomas Roe presents his credentials to the Mughal Emperor Jahangir, in Ajmer Fort, opening the door to the British presence in India. Roe sailed in the Lyon under the command of captain Christopher Newport, best known for his role in the Virginia colonies.source
  • 1645Archbishop of Canterbury William Laud executed for treason on Tower Hill, London.source
  • 1652Proclamation in Liège banishing brigands, vagabonds and beggars from the territorysource
  • 1661The decision to introduce absolute monarchy from the previous year enters into effect.source
  • 1662At the age of 19, Louis Grimaldi becomes the new Prince of Monaco upon the death of his grandfather, Honoré II.source
  • 1663The Royal African Company is granted a Royal Charter by Charles II of England.source
  • 1663the Royal African Company is granted a Royal Charter.source
  • 1678England and the Dutch Republic sign a mutual defense treaty in order to fight against France.source
  • 1678England and the Dutch Republic sign a mutual alliance against France.source
  • 1709Abraham Darby I successfully produces cast iron using coke fuel at his Coalbrookdale blast furnace in Shropshire, England.source
  • 1709Abraham Darby I successfully produces cast iron using coke fuel at his Coalbrookdale blast furnace in Shropshire.source
  • 1728The Provoked Husband a comedy based on an unfinished John Vanbrugh play completed by Colley Cibber premieres at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane. It appears to be the hit of the theatre season until eclipsed by The Beggars Opera a few weeks later.source
  • 1736emigrants from the Scottish Highlands arrive in North America on the Prince of Wales to establish the defensive town of Darien, Georgia, originally called New Inverness, among them being Lachlan McGillivray, Lachlan McIntosh and other members of the Clan Mackintosh.source
  • 1772Shah Alam II, the Mughal Emperor of India, makes a triumphant return to Delhi 15 years after having been forced to flee.source
  • 1776American Revolution: Thomas Paine publishes his pamphlet Common Sense, arguing for independence from British rule in the Thirteen Colonies.source
  • 1806Governor Jan Willem Janssens capitulates and Sir David Baird is appointed Governor of the Capesource
  • 1809Peninsular War – French Marshal Jean Lannes begins the Siege of Zaragoza.source
  • 1810The sealer Sydney Cove, Captain Charles McLaren, lands a sealing gang on Stewart Island.source
  • 1812New Orleans steamboat, the first steamship on the Mississippi River, arrives in its namesake city, completing its maiden voyage.source
  • 1831Japanese department store, Takashimaya in Kyoto established.source
  • 1838January 6–11 – Samuel Morse first publicly demonstrates electric telegraphy, at Morristown, New Jersey, assisted by Alfred Vail and using dots and dashes, the forerunner of Morse code.source
  • 1838A fire destroys Lloyd's Coffee House and the Royal Exchange in London.source
  • 1838A fire destroys Lloyd's Coffee House and the Royal Exchange in London.source
  • 1840Uniform Penny Post is introduced in the United Kingdom.source
  • 1840Uniform Penny Post introduced.source
  • 1842January 6–13 – First Anglo-Afghan War – Massacre of Elphinstone's army (Battle of Gandamak): British East India Company troops are destroyed by Afghan forces on the road from Kabul to Jalalabad, Afghanistan, by Akbar Khan, son of Dost Mohammad Khan.source
  • 1842Governor General of Canada Sir Charles Bagot arrives at Kingston, Ontario.source
  • 1845Jørund Telnes, farmer, teacher, writer and politician (died 1892).source
  • 1845Elizabeth Barrett receives a love letter from the younger poet Robert Browning; on May 20, they meet for the first time in London. She begins writing her Sonnets from the Portuguese.source
  • 1851The Norwegian Booksellers Association (Den Norske Bokhandlerforening) is founded.source
  • 1859Pencarrow Head Lighthouse becomes the first permanent lighthouse in New Zealand. Its first keeper is Mary Bennett, the only woman to hold the position.source
  • 1860The Pemberton Mill in Lawrence, Massachusetts collapses, killing at least 77 workers.source
  • 1860The Pemberton Mill collapses in Lawrence, Massachusetts, killing at least 77 workers.source
  • 1861Florida secedes from the Union.source
  • 1863January 10–12 – 1st Battle of Acapulcosource
  • 1863steamer Bussorah is lost off Islay with all 33 hands on her maiden voyage.source
  • 1863The first section of the London Underground Railway (Paddington to Farringdon Street) opens officially. This is the world’s first ever underground railway.source
  • 1868Shōgun Tokugawa Yoshinobu declares the emperor's declaration "illegal", and prepares to attack Kyoto.source
  • 1868The last convict ship to Western Australia, the Hougoumont, arrives in Western Australia. This brought the end of penal transportation to Australia.source
  • 1870John D. Rockefeller incorporates Standard Oil.source
  • 1874German federal election, 1874source
  • 1877German federal election, 1877source
  • 1882The vessels Constancia and Primus attempt to pass through a lock at Newport Docks at the same time and a collision results. The lock is blocked and the vessels already in the dock are trapped for nearly two weeks. The resulting losses eventually culminate in the demise of the Newport Dock Company a year later.source
  • 1883January 8 — January 19 – Trial of the 66 in Lyon, targeting the Black International in France.source
  • 1883A fire at the Newhall Hotel in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States, kills 73 people.source
  • 1883A fire at the Newhall Hotel in Milwaukee kills 73 people.source
  • 1891In France, the Irish Nationalist leaders hold a conference at Boulogne. The French government promptly takes loan.source
  • 1899The Tau Kappa Epsilon fraternity is founded, at Illinois Wesleyan University in Bloomington, Illinois.source
  • 1901In the first great Texas gusher, oil is discovered at Spindletop in Beaumont, Texas.source
  • 1903The Aceh Sultanate was fully annexed by Dutch forces, deposing the last sultan, and marking the end of the Aceh War that had lasted almost 30 years.source
  • 1904The Swedish Antarctic Expedition returns to Stockholm.source
  • 1910Le Devoir first publishedsource
  • 1911The cargo ship SS São Luiz runs aground off the coast of Rio Grande do Norte.source
  • 1917Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition: Seven survivors of the Ross Sea party are rescued after being stranded for several months.source
  • 1919January 7–14 - Tragic Week (Argentina)source
  • 1920The League of Nations is established with Switzerland as one of its founding members and its headquarters established in Geneva.source
  • 1922Arthur Griffith is elected President of Dáil Éireann, the day after Éamon de Valera resigns.source
  • 1924Narcisse Pérodeau becomes Quebec's 14th Lieutenant Governor.source
  • 1927Fritz Lang's futuristic film Metropolis is released in Germany.source
  • 1927The film Metropolis is released.source
  • 1929The first appearance of Hergé's Belgian comic book hero Tintin, as Tintin in the Land of the Soviets (Les Aventures de Tintin, reporter..., au pays des Soviets), begins serialization in the children's newspaper supplement, Le Petit Vingtième.source
  • 1929Lomer Gouin becomes Quebec's 15th lieutenant governor, serving until his death on March 28, 1929.source
  • 1934Marinus van der Lubbe, communist convicted of setting fire to the Reichstag (executed) (born 1909)source
  • 1937two paved highways are opened by the Minister of Communication: Kraków - Wieliczka (12 km) and Kraków - Katowice (64 km). Warsaw police arrest 13 activists of National Radical Camp (1934),source
  • 1940Mechelen incident: German military plane crashes near Maasmechelen.source
  • 1941The Lend-Lease Act is introduced into the United States Congress.source
  • 1942Elizabeth Monk and Suzanne Filion become the first female lawyers in Quebecsource
  • 1943WWII: Guadalcanal campaign: American forces of the 2nd Marine Division and the 25th Infantry Division begin their assaults on the Galloping Horse and Sea Horse on Guadalcanal. Meanwhile, the Japanese 17th Army makes plans to abandon the island and after fierce resistance withdraws to the west coast of Guadalcanal.source
  • 1946The first meeting of the United Nations is held, at Methodist Central Hall Westminster in London.source
  • 1946Project Diana bounces radar waves off the Moon, measuring the exact distance between the Earth and the Moon, and proves that communication is possible between Earth and outer space, effectively opening the Space Age.source
  • 1947The Military Court of Justice (Curtea de Justiție Militară) decides that the trial of the Iași pogrom should start in Bucharest, at the Martial Court of the 2 Army Corps (Curtea Marțială a Corpului 2 Armată).source
  • 1952A Douglas C-47 Dakota operated by Aer Lingus crashes in Wales while flying from Northolt Royal Air Force Station to Dublin. All twenty-three occupants are killed.source
  • 1957Harold Macmillan becomes Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.source
  • 1959The Soviet government recognizes the new Castro government of Cuba.source
  • 1960British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan makes the "Wind of Change" speech for the first time, to little publicity, in Accra, Gold Coast (modern-day Ghana).source
  • 1960Warsak irrigation tunnel, excavation of which began in July 1957, is inaugurated.source
  • 1966Ayub Khan and Indian Prime Minister Lal Bahadur Shastri sign the Tashkent Declaration to resolve the Indo-Pakistani War of 1965.source
  • 1966The House of Representatives of the US state of Georgia refuses to allow African-American representative Julian Bond to take his seat, because of his anti-war stance.source
  • 1968John Gorton is sworn in as 19th Prime Minister of Australia, taking over from John McEwen after being elected leader of the Liberal Party the previous day, following the disappearance of Harold Holt. Gorton becomes the only Senator to become Prime Minister, though he immediately transfers to the House of Representatives through the 1968 Higgins by-election in Holt's vacant seat.source
  • 1972Independence leader Sheikh Mujibur Rahman returns to Bangladesh after spending over nine months in prison in Pakistan.source
  • 1972Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, the "Bangabandhu" and "Father of Bangladesh", returned to Dhaka at 1:30 pm to a hero's welcome.source
  • 1974Paul Beghin is appointed to the Council of State.source
  • 1977Mount Nyiragongo erupts in eastern Zaire (now the Democratic Republic of the Congo).source
  • 1981Salvadoran Civil War: The FMLN launches its first major offensive, gaining control of most of Morazán and Chalatenango departments.source
  • 1982The former Defence Minister, Tan Sri Ghazalie Shafie survived a plane crash.source
  • 1984The United States and the Vatican (Holy See) restore full diplomatic relations.source
  • 1984The Victoria Agreement is signed, institutionalising the Indian Ocean Commission.source
  • 1990McDonnell Douglas MD-11 wide-body trijet airliner takes its first flight, in the US.source
  • 1993January 6–20 – The Bombay riots take place in Mumbai.source
  • 1993January 8–17 – The Braer Storm of January 1993, the most intense extratropical cyclone on record for the northern Atlantic Ocean, occurs.source
  • 1995January 10–15 – The World Youth Day 1995 festival is held in Manila, Philippines, culminating in 5 million people gathering for John Paul II's concluding mass in Quirino Grandstand.source
  • 1999Nursultan Nazarbayev was sworn in for another term following a victory in the presidential election.source
  • 1999The World Bank announces that tests on water wells in Bangladesh have shown that about 40% are contaminated with arsenic.source
  • 1999American crime drama series The Sopranos premieres on HBO, beginning what many commentators describe as the second “Golden Age of Television”.source
  • 2000America Online announces an agreement to purchase Time Warner for $162 billion (the largest-ever corporate merger).source
  • 2001Ethiopia rejects Djibouti's port-handling charges for imports and exports with them, claiming it to be a violation of an agreement in 1999.source
  • 2003North Korea announces its withdrawal from the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons.source
  • 2003Maoists send a letter threatening journalist Rabin Prasad Thapalia with death for an article deemed sympathetic to government forces.source
  • 2007Iraq War: The surge of US troops in Iraq is announced.source
  • 2007A general strike starts in Guinea, with trade unions calling for pay rises, the return to jail of Mamadou Sylla and the resignation of President Lansana Conté.source
  • 2009Russia's gas dispute with Ukraine cuts supplies to Bulgaria, resulting in a severe energy shortage lasting several weeks and widespread anger at the government's energy policies.source
  • 201018th Final of The Great Orchestra of Christmas Charity (for the second time for children with oncological diseases), oncology clinics for retrofitting the highly specialized equipment.source
  • 2010Religious violence erupts in Jos, Nigeria, which left scores dead, and many injured.source
  • 201136 people killed, including possibly 20 police, as Southern Sudan votes on referendum on independence.source
  • 2012Anykščiai took the title of a cultural capital of Lithuania.source
  • 2015A suicide attack by al-Nusra Front at a café in Tripoli kills at least seven people.source
  • 2015A mass poisoning at a funeral in Mozambique involves beer that was supposedly contaminated with crocodile bile leaving at least 56 dead and 146 hospitalized.source
  • 2017The Addis Ababa-Djibouti Railway is finally complete creating a high speed link with Djibouti.source
  • 2018Hundreds of protesters are arrested as protests against economic conditions continue to spread across the country. 49 police officers are injured during clashes. A Jewish school is also firebombed on the island of Djerba.source
  • 2019Venezuela enters a presidential crisis as Juan Guaidó and the National Assembly declare incumbent President Nicolás Maduro "illegitimate".source
  • 2022The first successful heart transplant from a pig to a human patient occurs in Baltimore, Maryland, United States.source
  • 2023January 10–17 – A cold snap in Afghanistan kills 166 people and nearly 80,000 livestock.source
  • 2025The European Copernicus Climate Change Service reports that 2024 was the world's hottest year on record, and the first calendar year to pass the symbolic threshold of 1.5 °C of global warming.source

Births

  • 1203Abu Shama, Arab historian and writer (died 1267)source
  • 1278January 10/11 – Rita of Armenia, Byzantine empress consort (died 1333)source
  • 1392Johanna van Polanen, Dutch noblewoman (died 1445)source
  • 1480Margaret of Austria, Regent of the Netherlands (died 1530)source
  • 1538Louis of Nassau, Dutch general (died 1574)source
  • 1573Simon Marius, German astronomer (died 1624)source
  • 1593Prince Maurice of Savoy, Catholic cardinal and Prince of Savoy (died 1657)source
  • 1607Isaac Jogues, French Jesuit missionary to the Native Americans (died 1646)source
  • 1607Isaac Jogues, Jesuit priest and missionary (died 1646)source
  • 1619Philip Sidney, 3rd Earl of Leicester, English politician (died 1698)source
  • 1650Countess Sophie Amalie of Nassau-Siegen, Duchess consort of Courland (1682–1688) (died 1688)source
  • 169810 January? – Richard Savage, poet (died 1743)source
  • 1734Fleury Mesplet, French-born Canadian printersource
  • 1747Abraham-Louis Breguet, Swiss horologist, inventor (died 1823)source
  • 1769Michel Ney, French marshal (died 1815)source
  • 1772William Jenkins Rees, antiquary (died 1855)source
  • 1806Hakob Hovnatanyan, Armenian artist.source
  • 1820Louisa Lane Drew, actress, prominent theater manager, grandmother of the Barrymores (died 1897)source
  • 1826Francisco Paulo de Almeida, bankersource
  • 1900Teodoro Picado Michalski, President 1944-1948 (died 1960)source
  • 1901Gabriel Turbay, politician and physician (died 1947)source
  • 1910Allal al-Fassi, Moroccan politician, writer, poet and Islamic scholar (died 1974)source
  • 1919Janko Bobetko, general (died 2003)source
  • 1934Leonid Kravchuk, President of Ukraine (died 2022)source
  • 1945Sir Rod Stewart, British rock singersource
  • 1949George Foreman, African-American boxer (died 2025)source
  • 1992Christian Atsu, footballersource

Deaths

  • 49 BCEXuan of Han, emperor of the Han dynasty (born 91 BC)source
  • 259Polyeuctus, Roman soldier and saintsource
  • 314Miltiades (or Melchiades), bishop of Romesource
  • 681Pope Agatho dies at Rome of plague after a 2½-year reign, in which he has persuaded Constantine IV to abolish the tax heretofore levied at the consecration of a newly elected pope.source
  • 976John I Tzimiskes, Byzantine emperorsource
  • 976Emperor John I Tzimiskes dies at Constantinople, after returning from a second campaign against the Abbasids in Syria. He is buried in the Church of Christ Chalkites, and succeeded by his 18-year-old nephew Basil II, who becomes sole ruler of the Byzantine Empire. The administration remains in the hands of Basil Lekapenos (an illegitimate son of the late Emperor Romanos I).source
  • 987Pietro I Orseolo, doge of Venice (born 928)source
  • 1030Thietmar, margrave of the Saxon Ostmarksource
  • 1055Bretislav I, duke of Bohemiasource
  • 1094Al-Mustansir Billah, Fatimid caliph (born 1029)source
  • 1209William of Donjeon, French archbishop (born 1140)source
  • 1218Hugh I (or Hugo), king of Cyprus (born 1195)source
  • 1276Pope Gregory X dies after a 4-year pontificate at Arezzo. He is succeeded by Innocent V as the 185th pope of the Catholic Church.source
  • 1276Gregory X, pope of the Catholic Church (born 1210)source
  • 1356Toqto'a, Yuan dynasty official who was murdered (born 1314)source
  • 1358Abu Inan Faris, Marinid ruler of Morocco (born 1329)source
  • 1370January 6 – 11 (Tubah 1086 AM) Pope Gabriel IV is consecrated as the new leader of the Coptic Orthodox Church for the Coptic Christians of Egypt, and assumes the title of Bishop of Alexandria, succeeding the late Pope Yoannis X, who had died eight months earlier.source
  • 1421Niccolò I Trinci, lord of Foligno (assassinated)source
  • 1520Cho Kwangjo, Korean philosopher (born 1482)source
  • 1552Johann Cochlaeus, German humanist and controversialist (born 1479)source
  • 1615Gustaf Brahe, official (born 1558)source
  • 1645William Laud, Archbishop of Canterbury (born 1573)source
  • 1645Archbishop of Canterbury William Laud is executed for treason on Tower Hill, London.source
  • 1645William Laud, Archbishop of Canterbury (born 1573; executed)source
  • 1654Nicholas Culpeper, English botanist (born 1616)source
  • 1698Louis-Sébastien Le Nain de Tillemont, French historian (born 1637)source
  • 1706Luisa Roldán, Spanish sculptor (born 1652)source
  • 1707Philibert, comte de Gramont, French writer (born 1621)source
  • 1711John Manners, 1st Duke of Rutland, English nobleman and politician (born 1638)source
  • 1720Ramon Perellos, Spanish 64th Grandmaster of the Knights Hospitaller (born 1637)source
  • 1761Edward Boscawen, British admiral (born 1711)source
  • 1778Carl Linnaeus, Swedish botanist (born 1707)source
  • 1789James Mitchell Varnum, American brigadier general of the Revolutionary War, Continental Congressman for Rhode Island (born 1748)source
  • 1862Samuel Colt, American firearms inventor (born 1814)source
  • 1883Samuel Mudd, American doctor to John Wilkes Booth (born 1833)source
  • 1904Jean-Léon Gérôme, French painter (born 1824)source
  • 1917Buffalo Bill, American frontiersman (born 1846)source
  • 1954BOAC Flight 781, a de Havilland Comet jet plane, disintegrates in mid-air due to metal fatigue, and crashes in the Mediterranean near Elba; all 35 people on board are killed.source
  • 1966Pakistani–Indian peace negotiations end successfully with the signing of the Tashkent Declaration, a day before the sudden death of Indian prime minister Lal Bahadur Shastri.source
  • 1971Coco Chanel, French fashion designer (born 1883)source
  • 1984Souvanna Phouma, Lao prime minister and neutralist leader (born 1901)source
  • 2016David Bowie, 69, English singer-songwriter, musician ("Heroes", "Space Oddity", "Life on Mars?") and actor (The Man Who Fell to Earth), six-time Grammy winner, liver cancer.source
  • 2020Qaboos bin Said al Said, sultan and ruler (born 1940).source
  • 2021Kim Jong Un is elected as the General Secretary of the ruling Workers' Party of Korea, inheriting the title from his father Kim Jong Il, who died in 2011.source