What is January 10?
{{calendar}} {{day}} ==Events== === Up to 1900 === * [[49 BC]] &ndash; [[Julius Caesar]] crossed the [[Rubicon]] which signalled [[civil war]]. * [[9]] &ndash; Beginning of the [[Xin dynasty]] in [[China]]. * [[69]] &ndash; [[Lucius Calpurnius Piso Licinianus]] is appointed by [[Galba]] as Deputy Roman Emperor. * [[236]] &ndash; [[Pope Fabian|Fabian]] became [[Pope]]. * [[1072]] &ndash; [[Robert Guiscard]] conquered [[Palermo]]. * [[1475]] &ndash; [[Stephen III of Moldavia]] defeated the [[Ottoman Empire]] at the [[Battle of Vaslui]]. * [[1776]] &ndash; [[Thomas Paine]] published [[Common Sense]]. * [[1806]] &ndash; [[Netherlands|Dutch]] in [[Cape Town]] surrendered to the [[United Kingdom|British]]. * [[1810]] &ndash; The marriage of [[Napoleon Bonaparte]] and [[Josephine de Beauharnais]] is annulled. * [[1821]] &ndash; [[Fabian Gottlieb von Bellingshausen]] discovered an [[island]] near [[Antarctica]] which he names [[Tsar Peter I Island]]. * [[1840]] &ndash; [[Isaac Pitman]] introduced long–distance learning; his students are able to send him their work by [[post]]. * [[1861]] &ndash; [[Florida]] seceded from the [[United States]]. * [[1863]] &ndash; The first section of the [[London Underground]] Railway opened ([[Paddington]] to Farringdon Street). * [[1870]] &ndash; [[John D. Rockefeller]] incorporated [[Standard Oil]]. === 1901&ndash;2000 === * [[1901]] &ndash; The first great [[Texas]] gusher – [[oil]] is discovered at [[Spindletop]] in [[Beaumont, Texas]]. * [[1910]] &ndash; British [[passenger]] ship ''Loodiana'' disappeared off [[Port Louis]], [[Mauritius]] – a mystery that has not been solved to–date. * [[1916]] &ndash; [[World War I]]: In the [[Erzurum Offensive]], [[Russia]] defeated the [[Ottoman Empire]]. * [[1920]] &ndash; [[League of Nations]] held its first meeting and ratifies the [[Treaty of Versailles]] ending [[World War I]]. * [[1922]] &ndash; [[Arthur Griffith]] is elected President of the [[Irish Free State]]. * [[1923]] &ndash; [[Lithuania]] seized and annexed [[Memel]]. * [[1927]] &n