History Events on December 10

The adoptive son of Empress Zoë of Byzantium succeeds to the throne of the Eastern Roman Empire as Michael V.

#Zoë_Porphyrogenita

World War II: Government of Poland in exile send Raczy?ski's Note (the first official report on the Holocaust) to 26 governments who signed the Declaration by United Nations.

#Polish_government-in-exile

Thailand becomes a constitutional monarchy.

#Thailand

Spanish-American War: The Treaty of Paris is signed, officially ending the conflict.

#Spanish-American_War

Democracy is restored in Argentina with the inauguration of President Raúl Alfonsín.

#Democracy

Zanzibar gains independence from the United Kingdom as a constitutional monarchy, under Sultan Jamshid bin Abdullah.

#Zanzibar

The worst night of the Brown Dog riots in London, when 1,000 medical students clash with 400 police officers over the existence of a memorial for animals that have been vivisected.

#Brown_Dog_affair

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.

#War_of_the_League_of_Cambrai

Defeat at the Battle of Dungeness causes the Commonwealth of England to reform its navy.

#Battle_of_Dungeness

The opening of the reservoir of the Aswan Dam in Egypt.

#Aswan_Low_Dam

France adopts the metre as its official unit of length.

#Unit_of_length

Forces led by Nguy?n Trung Tr?c, an anti-colonial guerrilla leader in southern Vietnam, sink the French lorcha L'Esperance.

#Nguy?n_Trung_Tr?c

Martin Luther burns his copy of the papal bull Exsurge Domine outside Wittenberg's Elster Gate.

#Martin_Luther

Arab-Israeli conflict: Prime Minister of Israel Menachem Begin and President of Egypt Anwar Sadat are jointly awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.

#Arab-Israeli_conflict

The first Nobel Prize ceremony is held in Stockholm on the fifth anniversary of Alfred Nobel's death.

#Nobel_Prize

Mississippi becomes the 20th U.S. state.

#Mississippi

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 Edmond Halley.

#Isaac_Newton

The "Nyköping Banquet" - King Birger of Sweden treacherously seizes his two brothers Valdemar, Duke of Finland and Eric, Duke of Södermanland, who were subsequently starved to death in the dungeon of Nyköping Castle.

#Nyköping_Banquet

Chinese Civil War: The People's Liberation Army begins its siege of Chengdu, the last Kuomintang-held city in mainland China, forcing President of the Republic of China Chiang Kai-shek and his government to retreat to Taiwan.

#Chinese_Civil_War

The first traffic lights are installed, outside the Palace of Westminster in London. Resembling railway signals, they use semaphore arms and are illuminated at night by red and green gas lamps.

#Traffic_light

American Civil War: The Confederate States of America accept a rival state government's pronouncement that declares Kentucky to be the 13th state of the Confederacy.

#American_Civil_War

United Nations General Assembly recognizes the Convention against Torture.

#United_Nations_General_Assembly

British Prime Minister Winston Churchill receives the Nobel Prize in literature.

#United_Kingdom

Alfred Jarry's Ubu Roi premieres in Paris. A riot breaks out at the end of the performance.

#Alfred_Jarry

Rwandan genocide: Maurice Baril, military advisor to the U.N. Secretary-General and head of the Military Division of the Department of Peacekeeping Operations, recommends that UNAMIR stand down.

#Rwandan_genocide

World War II: The Royal Navy capital ships HMS Prince of Wales and HMS Repulse are sunk by Imperial Japanese Navy torpedo bombers near British Malaya.

#Royal_Navy

Two explosions outside a football stadium in Istanbul, Turkey, kill 38 people and injure 166 others.

#December_2016_Istanbul_bombings

Mark Twain's Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is published.

#Mark_Twain

American Civil War: Sherman's March to the Sea: Major General William Tecumseh Sherman's Union Army troops reach the outer Confederate defenses of Savannah, Georgia.

#Sherman's_March_to_the_Sea

The new Constitution of South Africa is promulgated by Nelson Mandela.

#Constitution_of_South_Africa

Selma Lagerlöf becomes the first female writer to win the Nobel Prize in Literature.

#Selma_Lagerlöf

U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt wins the Nobel Peace Prize for his role in the mediation of the Russo-Japanese War, becoming the first American to win a Nobel Prize.

#Theodore_Roosevelt

Palestinian minister Ziad Abu Ein was killed after the suppression of a demonstration by Israeli forces in the village (Turmus'ayya) in Ramallah.

The Israeli army withdraws from Nablus pursuant to the terms of Oslo Accord.

The last shift leaves Wearmouth Colliery in Sunderland. The closure of the 156-year-old pit marks the end of the old County Durham coalfield, which had been in operation since the Middle Ages.

Mongolian Revolution: At the country's first open pro-democracy public demonstration, Tsakhiagiin Elbegdorj announces the establishment of the Mongolian Democratic Union.

Kaohsiung Incident: Taiwanese pro-democracy demonstrations are suppressed by the KMT dictatorship, and organizers are arrested.

Japan's biggest heist, the still-unsolved "300 million yen robbery", is carried out in Tokyo.

An assassination attempt on the British High Commissioner in Aden kills two people and wounds dozens more.

The Human Rights Convention is signed by the United Nations.

World War II: Battle of the Philippines: Imperial Japanese forces under the command of General Masaharu Homma land on Luzon.

Abdication Crisis: Edward VIII signs the Instrument of Abdication.

Russo-Turkish War: The Russian Army captures Plevna after a 5-month siege. The garrison of 25,000 surviving Turks surrenders. The Russian victory is decisive for the outcome of the war and the Liberation of Bulgaria.

The first edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica is published.

The Royal Netherlands Marine Corps is founded by Michiel de Ruyter

Thomas Culpeper and Francis Dereham are executed for having affairs with Catherine Howard, Queen of England and wife of Henry VIII.