This Day In European History

10th December

Events
1508: The League of Cambrai is formed by Aragon, France, and the Holy Roman Empire.
1582: The Gregorian calendar begins in France.
1901: The Nobel Prize is started.
1903: Marie and Pierre Curie win the Nobel Prize.

Births
1538: Battista Guarini, Italian poet.
1610: Adriaen van Ostade, Dutch painter.
1804: Karl Jacobi, German mathematician.
1815: Augusta Ada Byron, Countess of Lovelace, computing pioneer.
1822: César Franck, Franco-Belgian statesman.

Deaths
1041: Byzantine Emperor Michael IV.
1561: Kaspar Schwenckfeld, German theologian.
1603: William Gilbert, British scientist.
1896: Alfred Nobel, Swedish inventor of dynamite and instigator of the eponymous prize.

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