Year 1616
British Ambassador Sir Thomas Roe met Jahangir in Ajmer.
JANUARY 10
Daily Historical Chronicle
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10 January: What Happened On This Day in History
Curated historical timeline of momentous political pacts, freedom struggle uprisings, constitutional developments, scientific breakthroughs, and prominent birthdays recorded on 10 January.
Year 1730
Construction of Shaniwarwada began in Pune.
Year 1791
The Siege of Dunlap's Station begins near Cincinnati during the Northwest Indian War.
Year 1806
Dutch colonists in Cape Town surrendered to the British.
Year 1863
The world’s first underground rail service began in London. The arrival of Metro service in London’s high speed and congested life brought a big revolution.
Year 1870
Churchgate Railway Station opened in Mumbai.
Year 1991
UN Secretary-General Javier Perez went to the Iraqi capital, Baghdad, in his last attempt to avert the Kuiyyar Gulf War.
Year 1916
Russia defeated the Ottoman Empire during the First World War.
Year 1920
World War I ended with the Treaty of Versailles.
Year 1929
The world-famous comic The Adventures of Tintin published for the first time.
Year 1966
India and Pakistan signed the Tashkent Agreement.
Year 1966
Tashkent Declaration, a peace agreement between India and Pakistan signed that resolved the Indo-Pakistani War of 1965.
Year 1972
Sheikh Mujibur Rahman returned to Bangladesh, the newly independent country, after serving nine months in a Pakistani prison.
Born 1510
Achyutananda Das, a 16th-century poet seer and Vaishnava saint from Odisha, India.
Born 1775
Baji Rao II, the 12th and the last Peshwa of the Maratha Empire.
Born 1894
Pingali Lakshmikantam, Indian poet and author (d. 1972)
Born 1930
Roy E. Disney, a longtime senior executive for the Walt Disney Company.
Born 1938
Donald Knuth, an American computer scientist, mathematician, and professor.
Born 1940
K. J. Yesudas, an Indian playback singer, and musician from Kerala.
Born 1949
Allu Aravind, an Indian film producer, and distributor.
Born 1950
Suchitra Bhattacharya, an Indian novelist.
Born 1971
Rakesh Chaurasia, an Indian flautist.
Born 1974
Hrithik Roshan, an Indian actor.
Born 1984
Kalki Koechlin, Indian actress
Died 1774
Pratap Singh II, the Maharana of Mewar Kingdom.
Died 1778
Carl Linnaeus, a Swedish botanist, zoologist, and physician. He is known as the “father of modern taxonomy’.
Died 1833
Adrien-Marie Legendre, a French mathematician.
Died 1951
Sinclair Lewis, an American novelist, short story writer, and playwright. He is the first writer from the United States to receive the Nobel Prize in Literature.
Died 1967
Radhabinod Pal, a Bengali jurist from India.
Died 1969
Sampurnanand, Indian educator and politician, 2nd Governor of Rajasthan (b. 1891)
Died 1971
Coco Chanel, a French fashion designer, and businesswoman.
Died 2010
Patcha Ramachandra Rao, an Indian metallurgist, and administrator.