This Day In European History
10th January
Events49 BCE: Julius Caesar breaks tradition and crosses the Rubicon (a river) with an army.
1429: The Burgundian Order of the Golden Fleece created.
1813: The execution in York, Britain, of fourteen Luddites for breaking factory machines.
1840: Britain introduces the Penny Post.
1863: London's first underground railway opens.
1920: The League of Nations formally opens.
1922: Arthur Griffith is elected president of the Irish Free State.
1923: US troops leave Germany, where they were stationed to enforce The Treaty of Versailles.
1929: Tintin, Belgian cartoonist Herge's famous character, first appears.
1946: The United Nations first meet, in London.
Births
1638 Nicolaus Steno, Danish scientist; first man on record to realise that fossils were the remains of once-living creatures.
1645: Louis-Francois, French general.
1750: Thomas Erskine, British lawyer and civil liberties advocate.
1769: Michel Ney, Napoleonic Marshal.
Deaths
1538: Louis, Count of Nassau, German leader.
1645: William Laud, Archbishop of Canterbury, executed.
1754: Edward Cave, English journalist and publisher.
1778: Carolus Linnaeus, Swedish botanist.
1890: Johann von Dollinger, German historian and theologian.
