Today in History
On This Day In History
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
Dec 10, 741 |
Zacharias becomes Pope |
Dec 10, 1041 |
Michael IV, Paphlagonicus, Byzantium Emperor dies of results of dropsy. His wife Empress Zoe elevates her adoptive son to the throne of the Eastern Roman Empire as Michael V. |
Dec 10, 1294 |
Pope Coelestinus V becomes Pope (until Dec 13th) |
Dec 10, 1508 |
League of the kingdom signed (covenant against Venice) |
Dec 10, 1520 |
Martin Luther publicly burned papal edict demands he recant |
Dec 10, 1582 |
France begins use of Gregorian calendar |
Dec 10, 1652 |
Sea battle at Dungeness: lt-admiral Maarten Tromp beats English fleet |
Dec 10, 1672 |
NY Gov Lovelace announces monthly mail service between NY & Boston |
Dec 10, 1684 |
Isaac Newton's derivation of Kepler's laws from his theory of gravity, contained in the paper De motu corporum in gyrum, is read to the Royal Society by Edmund Halley. |
Dec 10, 1688 |
King James II flees London |
Dec 10, 1690 |
Mass Bay becomes 1st American colonial goverment to borrow money |
Dec 10, 1745 |
Bonnie Prince Charlie's army reaches Manchester |
Dec 10, 1799 |
Metric system adopted in France, first country to do so |
Dec 10, 1810 |
Tom Cribb (GB) beats Tom Molineaus (US-Negro) in 1st interracial boxing championship (40 rounds) |
Dec 10, 1816 |
Dutch regain Sumatra |
Dec 10, 1817 |
Mississippi admitted as 20th state of the Union |
Dec 10, 1831 |
"Spirit of the Times" begins publishing (weekly horse racing sheet) |
Dec 10, 1836 |
Emory College (now Emory University) is chartered in Oxford, Georgia. |
Dec 10, 1864 |
General Sherman's armies reach Savannah & 12 day siege begins |
Dec 10, 1868 |
The first traffic lights are installed outside the Palace of Westminster in London. Resembling railway signals, they use semaphore arms and are illuminated at night by red and green gas lamps. |
Dec 10, 1869 |
Women suffrage (right to vote) granted in Wyoming Territory (US 1st) |
Dec 10, 1869 |
The first American chapter of Kappa Sigma is founded at the University of Virginia. |
Dec 10, 1882 |
John Brahms' "Gesang der the Parzen" premieres |
Dec 10, 1887 |
Austria-Hungary, Italy and Great Britain sign Balkan military treaty |
Dec 10, 1896 |
1st intercollegiate basketball game (Wesleyan beats Yale 4-3) |
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