What is December 10?
{{calendar}} {{day}} ==Events== === Up to 1900 === *[[1041]] &ndash; Empress [[Zoe of Byzantium]] elevates her adoptive son to the throne of the [[Eastern Roman Empire]] as [[Michael V]]. *[[1508]] &ndash; The [[League of Cambrai]] is formed by [[Pope Julius II]], [[Louis XII of France]], [[Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor]] and [[Ferdinand II of Aragon]] as an alliance against [[Venice]]. *[[1510]] &ndash; Portuguese conquest of [[Goa]]: [[Portugal|Portuguese]] naval forces under the command of [[Afonso de Albuquerque]], and local [[Mercenary|mercenaries]] working for privateer Timoji, seize [[Goa]] from the Bijapur [[Sultan]]ate, resulting in 451 years of Portuguese colonial rule. *[[1520]] &ndash; [[Martin Luther]] burns his copy of the [[papal bull]] ''[[Exsurge Domine]]'' outside [[Wittenberg]]'s Elster Gate. *[[1684]] &ndash; [[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]]. *[[1799]] &ndash; [[France]] adopts the [[meter]] as its official unit of [[length]]. *[[1817]] &ndash; [[Mississippi]] becomes the 20th [[U.S. state]]. *[[1836]] &ndash; Emory College (now [[Emory University]]) is chartered in [[Oxford, Georgia]]. *[[1848]] &ndash; Louis–Napoleon Bonaparte, later [[Napoleon III of France]], is elected [[President of France]]. *[[1861]] &ndash; [[American Civil War]]: The [[Confederate States of America]] accept a rival state's pronouncement that declares [[Kentucky]] to be the 13th State of the Confederacy. *[[1864]] &ndash; [[American Civil War]]: [[Sherman's March to the Sea]] – Major General [[William T. Sherman]]'s [[Union Army]] troops reach [[Savannah, Georgia]]. *[[1868]] &ndash; The first [[traffic lights]] are installed outside the [[Palace of Westminster|Houses of Parliament]] in [[London]]. Resembling [[railway signals]], they use [[Semaphore (communication)|semaphore]] arms and are illuminated at night by red and green [[gas lamp]]s. *[[1869]] &ndas