January 10

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[edit] Events

• 49 BC - Julius Caesar crosses the Rubicon, signaling the start of civil war.
• 236 - Saint Fabian begins his reign as a Catholic Pope.
• 1072 - Robert Guiscard conquers Palermo.
• 1475 - Stephen III of Moldavia defeats the Ottoman Empire at the Battle of Vaslui.
• 1645 - Archbishop William Laud is beheaded at the Tower of London.
• 1806 - Dutch settlers in Cape Town surrender to the British.
• 1810 - The marriage of Napoleon Bonaparte and Josephine is annulled.
• 1861 - American Civil War:Florida secedes from the Union.
• 1920 - The League of Nations holds its first meeting and ratifies the Treaty of Versailles ending the First World War.
• 1941 - World War II: The Greek army captures Kleisoura.

[edit] Births

• 1480 - Margaret of Austria, Regent of the Netherlands (d. 1530)
• 1538 - Louis of Nassau, Dutch general (d. 1574)
• 1573 - Simon Marius, German astronomer (d. 1624)
• 1644 - Louis François, duc de Boufflers, French marshal (d. 1711)
• 1654 - Joshua Barnes, English scholar (d. 1712)
• 1702 - Johannes Zick, German fresco painter (d. 1762)
• 1715 - Christian August Crusius, German philosopher and theologian (d. 1775)
• 1721 - Johann Philipp Baratier, German scholar (d. 1740)
• 1738 - Ethan Allen, American Revolution military leader (d. 1789)
• 1815 - Sir John Alexander Macdonald, First Prime Minister of Canada (d. 1891)
• 1843 - Frank James, American outlaw (d. 1915)
• 1869 - Grigori Rasputin, Russian monk (d. 1916)
• 1883 - Aleksei Nikolaevich Tolstoi, Russian writer (d. 1945)

[edit] Deaths

• 681 - Pope Agatho
• 976 - John I Tzimiskes, Greek Byzantine Emperor (b. 925)
• 1094 - Caliph Al-Mustansir of Cairo (b. 1029)
• 1276 - Pope Gregory X (bc. 1210)
• 1934 - Marinus van der Lubbe, Dutch communist accused of setting the Reichstag fire (b. 1909)
• 2005 - James Forman, American "civil rights" leader (b. 1928)