Page 3: Historical Events In January - 10

1839  On this day in history tea from India 1st arrives in UK   

1840  Penny Post mail system started on January - 10.   

1840  Penny Post mail system is starts on January - 10.   

1845  On January - 10 poets Elizabeth Barrett & Robert Browning begin corresponding   

1846  Etienne P de Senancour, French writer (De l'Amour), dies at 75 on January - 10.   

1847  On January - 10 american naval forces occupy Los Angeles.   

1850  On this day in history robert McClure & Richard Collinson set sail in the Enterprise and Investigator to start search for lost Franklin expedition   

1853  Charles Reade's "Gold," premieres in London on this day in history.   

1854  On this day in history peter Gast, composer   

1855  On this day in history peter J Blok, Dutch historian (History of the Dutch People)   

1855  Mary Russell Mitford, Engl playwright/poet (Julian), dies at 67 on January - 10.   

1861  Colonel Moody names Lulu Island (near Vancouver) for Lulu Sweet, an American actress appearing in theatrical performances for the Royal Engineers on this day in history.   

1861  On January - 10 florida becomes 3rd state to secede from US   

1861  On January - 10 fort Jackson & Fort Philip are taken over by Los Angeles state troops   

1861  US forts & property seized by Mississippi on January - 10.   

1862  On this day in history battle of Big Sandy River KY (Middle Creek)   

1862  On January - 10 the inventor of the Revolver Samuel Colt dies.   

1862  Battle of Big Sandy River, KY (Middle Creek) on January - 10.   

1862  On this day in history samuel Colt, inventor (6 shot revolver), dies at 47   

1863  On this day in history general McClernand's Union troops surround Fort Hindman AR   

1863  January-uprising begins in Poland on January - 10.   

1863  The first underground railway opens in London on January - 10.   

1863  On January - 10 1st underground railway opens in London   

1864  On January - 10 george Washington Carver, agricultural scientist [or Jul 12]   

1870  On January - 10 georgia legislature reconvenes   

1870  John D Rockefeller incorporates Standard Oil on this day in history.   

1870  Standard Oil is incorporated by brothers John D. and William Rockefeller on this day in history.   

1871  On January - 10 enrica Freiin von Handel-Manzetti, Austrian author (Jesse & Maria)   

1871  On this day in history pierre A du Terrail, French writer, dies at 41   

1876  Johannes W "Jan" Eisenloeffel, Dutch goldsmith on this day in history.   

1876  On this day in history charles EH de Coussemaker, Belgian musicologist/historian, dies at 70   

1877  Frederick Gardner Cottrell, inventor (elecrostatic precipitator) on January - 10.   

1878  On January - 10 uS Senate proposes female suffrage   

1880  On January - 10 eduard M Meijers, Dutch lawyer (Short Cause)   

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1480  On this day in history birth of margaret of Austria, Regent of the Netherlands (d. 1530)   

1502  On January - 10 birth of hendrik Niclaes, German/Dutch merchant/cult leader (Children of God)   

1538  On this day in history birth of louis of Nassau, Dutch general (d. 1574)   

1573  On January - 10 birth of simon Marius, German astronomer (d. 1624)   

1607  Isaac Jogues, French Jesuit missionary (d. 1646) was born on this day in history.   

1628  On January - 10 birth of jan Theunisz Blanckerhoff, [Jan Maet], seascape painter)   

1638  On this day in history birth of niels Stensen, Danish astronomer   

1638  On January - 10 birth of nicolas Steno, Danish geologist (d. 1686)   

0681  On January - 10 agatho, Sicilian pope (678-81), dies   

0866  On this day in history lin-chi I-hsuan, [J Rinzai Gigen], Zen teacher, dies   

0976  On January - 10 john I Tzimisces, co-emperor of Byzantium (969-76), dies at 51   

1094  Death of Caliph Al-Mustansir of Cairo (b. 1029) on January - 10.   

1271  Otto II, the Lame, earl of Gelre, dies on this day in history.   

1276  On this day in history gregorius X, [Tedaldo Visconti], pope, dies   

1542  On January - 10 death of gerardus Noviomagus, [Gerrit Geldenhauer], Dutch theologist, die at 59   

1645  Death of William Laud, Archbishop of Canterbury, beheaded for treason at 71 on this day in history.