January 10 in History

Appointed Pope

Philip founds the Order of the Golden Fleece at Bruges.

Consecrated as the Bishoop of Coventry & Lichfield

Announces she cannot find guilt with either Mary or her accuser Murray

Popular opposition after the failed arrests causes Charles and the royal family to leave Whitehall.

Popular opposition after the failed arrests causes Charles and the royal family to leave Whitehall.

Parliament appoints Skippon to command the London Trained Bands.

Parliament appoints Skippon commander of the London Trained Bands.

Charles and the royal family leave London after popular demonstrations support Parliament.

Charles and the royal family leave London after popular demonstrations support Parliament.

The royal family moves from Whitehall to Hampton Court amid public unrest.

The royal family moves from Whitehall to Hampton Court amid public unrest.

Beheaded for treason

Death of William Laud, executed for treason. Beheaded for treason

Receives formal recognition of hereditary sovereignty.

Charters the Company of Royal Adventurers trading to Africa.

Participates in the company chartered for English trade on the African coast.

Noell is associated with the Restoration trading company operating toward Africa.

James Duke of York becomes a leading figure in the African trading company.

Jahandar Shah is defeated in battle at Agra by Farrukhsiyar, his nephew the second son of Azim-ush-shan, with the support of the Saiyid Brothers

Jahandar Shah is defeated at Samugarh near Agra, the Saiyad brothers, who were the king-makers of that era, place Farukhsiyar on the throne as nominal emperor

Intoduces the Penny Post to Britain

Atmospheric railway services reach Newton Abbot as Brunel continues testing the experimental system.

Atmospheric passenger working extends from Teignmouth to Newton on Brunel's South Devon system.

Sends Sardinian troops to support the Allies.

Opens the London Underground

Fowler helps open the Metropolitan Railway, the world's first underground passenger railway.

Rockefeller and his partners incorporate Standard Oil of Ohio.

Named after a Roman Commander Fabius Maximus who adopted a policy of gradualism

Undergoes the 1st appendectomy

Subject to ritual degradation on the parade ground of the Military Academy

Utah becomes the 45th state of the Union

Appointed to resolve conflicts between Germans & Czechs in Austria

Arrives to replace Buller as senior British commander.

Serves as Roberts's chief of staff.

Arrested for expressing sympathy with the Saint Petersburg marchers

Denounces the shootings and is arrested during the aftermath.

Is arrested after condemning the Bloody Sunday shootings.

Interprets the massacre as the opening of revolution.

Mensheviks analyse the massacre as a mass political awakening.

Liberal opposition gains strength after the massacre.

Becomes associated with repression after the massacre.

The Government appeals in vain for the workers to return to work

Appointed Acting President of Panama

Lords, "doddering peers, cute financial magnates, clever wire pullers"

Scott records that the expedition is effectively landed with its essential stores ashore at Cape Evans.

Appointed President of Panama

Addresses publication and parliamentary consideration of Sir Ian Hamilton’s report on the Gallipoli campaign.

Gives Parliament a statement on current military and governmental questions at the start of 1916.

Appointed President of Panama

Appointed Acting President of Panama

Helps consolidate Bolshevik power at the Third Congress of Soviets

Sverdlov presides as the Third All-Russian Congress of Soviets consolidates Bolshevik authority after the Constituent Assembly's dissolution.

Argues for uncompromising military struggle against Bolshevism.

Appointed Minister of Air

Appointed Minister of War

Becomes the League's first Secretary-General.

The Treaty of Versailles comes into effect

Becomes President of Dail Eireann following de Valera's resignation.

Stalin signs an order of the day of the Revolutionary Military Council of the Southern Front congratulating the armies of the front on the defeat of Denikins armies and the capture of the Donbas and Rostov

Stalin signs an order of the day of the Revolutionary Military Council of the Southern Front congratulating the armies of the front on the defeat of Denikins armies and the capture of the Donbas and Rostov. Stalin informs Lenin of the capture of Rostov by Budyonnys Cavalry

Appointed President of Panama

Siles Reyes begins his constitutional presidency.

Appointed second collective provisional government of Ecuador

Metropolis premieres in Berlin.

Appointed President of Panama

Creates Tintin & his dog Snowy

Death of Martin van der Lubbe, executed

The Nazis allege that Van der Lubbe is part of the Communist conspiracy to burn down the Reichstag & seize power. Death of Martin van der Lubbe, executed

Guillotined in a Leipzig prison yard, three days before his 25th birthday

Van der Lubbe is beheaded in a German prison yard after being found guilty of the Reichstag fire

Van der Lubbe is beheaded in a German prison yard after being found guilty of the Reichstag fire

Ryutin was eventually executed on January 10, 1937, during the Great Purge

Ryutin was eventually executed on January 10, 1937, during the Great Purge

Appointed President of Panama

Germany & Russia sign a fresh Treaty recognizing spheres of influence & trade

Germany & Russia sign a fresh Treaty recognizing spheres of influence & trade

Marries Mickey Rooney

Proposes short talks between Anthony Eden and Edward Stettinius during the Malta preparations.

A ceasefire agreement is arranged under George Marshall's mediation

Mao backs Communist participation in negotiations for a coalition government

General Marshall helps arrange a truce between Nationalist and Communist forces

Project Diana receives radar echoes from the Moon.

A ceasefire agreement temporarily halts major Nationalist-Communist fighting while American mediation attempts to create a political settlement.

Marshall's mediation produces a ceasefire while political negotiations continue

Zhou Enlai appeals for a coalition government at the Political Consultative Conference

Zhang Junmai participates in constitutional discussions at the Political Consultative Conference

Shen Junru represents Democratic League opinion during the coalition government talks

The Political Consultative Conference opens with Nationalist, Communist and other political representatives seeking agreement on government reconstruction and constitutional issues.

Chiang's government opens the Political Consultative Conference with Communist and third-party delegates

Orders Central Bank gold reserves transferred toward Taiwan as the Nationalist government prepares for possible loss of the mainland.

Appointed President of Panama

While in Washington Churchill allows US bases on British soil

Appointed President of Panama

Sends for MacMillan to succeed Eden

Summoned by Elizabeth II to succeed Eden

Continues as Chief Whip after Harold Macmillan becomes Prime Minister.

Becomes Prime Minister after Anthony Eden resigns.

Appoints MacMillan as Prime Minister

Appointed Prime Minister of Great Britain, 1st term

Appointed Prime Minister of Great Britain, 2nd term

Cabell is briefed on unresolved Defense Department support problems affecting the Cuban project.

Appointed President of Panama

Shastri signs the Tashkent Declaration with Pakistan, formalizing a post-war settlement after the 1965 conflict.

Ayub Khan and Lal Bahadur Shastri sign the Tashkent Declaration.

Shastri and Pakistani President Ayub Khan sign the Tashkent Declaration to normalise relations after the 1965 war.

Elected Senator for Massachusetts, 1st African-American senator

Elected Senator for Massachusetts, 1st African-American senator

Venera 6 launches as a companion mission to Venera 5 with instruments for measuring Venus's atmosphere.

Sheikh Mujibur Rahman returns to Dhaka from prison in West Pakistan

India and Bangladesh sign a friendship Treaty

Rahman visits Dacca

Presides as the criminal trial begins for G. Gordon Liddy and James McCord after five other Watergate defendants choose guilty pleas.

Baggage handlers at Heathrow call off their 3 day dispute

Canal Zone is abolished and the Panama Canal Commission begins treaty era administration

Canal Zone is abolished as the Torrijos Carter Treaties begin implementation

People's Republic of Kampuchea government forms under Heng Samrin's chairmanship

Begin agrees that civilian flights, telephone lines and postal services will open during normalisation.

Begin and Sadat agree to proceed with ambassadors, air links, telephone services and postal relations.

Sadat and Begin settle practical arrangements for normal diplomatic and communications links.

The US & the Vatican reestablish diplomatic relations after a 117-year break

Demonstrates the C5 battey-driven electric car

Union votes to expel Nottinghamshire

Cuba begins withdrawing its troops from Angola, more than 13 years after its first contingents arrived

Cuba begins withdrawing its troops from Angola, more than 13 years after its first contingents arrived

Releases New York, a direct song cycle about politics, poverty, crime and urban life.

A 5 pound bomb explodes in Whitehall

ibn Shaker participates in constitutional reform connected with Jordanian political and historical developments.

Talks between Israeli and Palestinian negotiators resume in Taba, Egypt

Dupree helps produce Hubble's first direct image resolving the surface of a star other than the Sun, revealing Betelgeuse's ultraviolet hot spot.

Nazarbayev wins re-election as President

Appointed Foreign Minister

Appointed Minister of Economics

North Korea announces withdrawal from the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty during a renewed nuclear crisis.

Akhmetov resigns as Prime Minister

Appointed President of Venezuela, 2nd elected term under the 1999 Constitution

Karim Massimov becomes Prime Minister

In a nationally televised address, President Bush announces an additional 20,000 troops will be deployed to Baghdad to try to stem the sectarian fighting

Receives the FIFA World Coach of the Year award for his achievements with Inter in 2010.

Is declared winner of the delayed 2018 presidential election before taking office later in January.

Begins a disputed second presidential term.

Akatsuki observations reveal a giant streak-like cloud structure produced by large-scale atmospheric waves and high-latitude jets.

Becomes general secretary of the Workers Party.

Is sworn in for a disputed third presidential term.

Birth of Louis of Nassau-Dietz

Birth of George Villiers, son of the 1st Duke of Buckingham

Birth of Michel Ney

Birth of Jakob Grimm

Birth of John Emerich Edward Dalberg-Acton, 1st Baron Acton

Birth of Gustav Husak

Birth of Rod Stewart

Birth of Roderick David Stewart, later a major British rock and pop singer.

Birth of George Edward Foreman

Death of William Laud, executed for treason

Death of Ludwig Friedrich Leopold von Gerlach

Death of Martin van der Lubbe, executed

Dies in New York two days after the release of Blackstar, closing one of popular music's most influential careers.

Defeats a major Ottoman army at Vaslui.

Jahandar Shah is defeated in battle at Agra by Farrukhsiyar, his nephew the second son of Azim-ush-shan, with the support of the Saiyid Brothers

Jahandar Shah is defeated in battle at Agra by Farrukhsiyar, his nephew the second son of Azim-ush-shan, with the support of the Saiyid Brothers

Jahandar Shah is defeated at Samugarh near Agra, the Saiyad brothers, who were the king-makers of that era, place Farukhsiyar on the throne as nominal emperor

The 65th Army advances 5 miles in the first day