What happend on 10th December

09.12
11.12
1901

First Nobel Prizes awarded

1898

A treaty is signed in Paris that officially ends the Spanish-American War.

1869

Wyoming grants women the right to vote

1864

William Tecumseh Sherman reaches Savannah, Georgia, ending his "March to the Sea".

1836

Emory College, now Emory University, is chartered in Oxford, Georgia.

1817

Mississippi becomes the 20th U.S. state.

1684

Isaac Newton's derivation of Kepler's laws from his theory of gravity, contained in the paper De motu corporum in gyrum read out to the Royal Society by Edmund Halley.

1520

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

1508

League of Cambrai formed as an alliance against Venice between Pope Julius II, Louis XII of France, Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor and Ferdinand II of Aragon.

1041

Empress Zoe of Byzantium elevates her adoptive son to the throne of the Eastern Roman Empire as Michael V.