WHAT HAPPENED ON 10. NOVEMBER
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Fourth Crusade: Despite letters from Pope Innocent III forbidding it and threatening excommunication, Catholic crusaders begin a siege of the Catholic city of Zara (now Zadar, Croatia). (10. November 1202)

Raden Wijaya is crowned as the first monarch of Majapahit kingdom of Java, taking throne name Kertarajasa Jayawardhana. (10. November 1293)

Battle of Varna: The crusading forces of King Vladislaus III of Varna (aka Ulaszlo I of Hungary and Wladyslaw III of Poland) are crushed by the Turks under Sultan Murad II and Vladislaus is killed. (10. November 1444)

Danish King Christian II executes dozens of people in the Stockholm Bloodbath after a successful invasion of Sweden. (10. November 1520)

After a three-day siege, the English Army beheads over 600 Papal soldiers and civilians at Dún an Óir, Ireland. (10. November 1580)

René Descartes has the dreams that inspire his Meditations on First Philosophy. (10. November 1619)

Chattrapati Shivaji Maharaj, Maratha King kills Afzal Khan, Adilshahi in the battle popularly known as Battle of Pratapgarh. This is also recognised as the first defence of Swarajya (10. November 1659)

Anglo-Dutch War: As provided in the Treaty of Westminster, Netherlands cedes New Netherlands to England. (10. November 1674)

English colonists under the command of James Moore besiege Spanish St. Augustine during Queen Anne's War. (10. November 1702)

The last colonial governor of New Jersey, William Franklin, signs the charter of Queen's College (later renamed Rutgers University). (10. November 1766)

The United States Marine Corps is founded at Tun Tavern in Philadelphia by Samuel Nicholas. (10. November 1775)

A Goddess of Reason is proclaimed by the French Convention at the suggestion of Chaumette. (10. November 1793)

Cry of Independence by Rufina Alfaro at La Villa de Los Santos, Panama setting into motion a revolt which lead to Panama's independence from Spain and to it immediately becoming part of Colombia (10. November 1821)

The passenger ship Stephen Whitney is wrecked in thick fog off the southern coast of Ireland, killing 92 of the 110 on board. The disaster results in the construction of the Fastnet Rock lighthouse. (10. November 1847)

Major Henry Wirz, the superintendent of a prison camp in Andersonville, Georgia, is hanged, becoming the only American Civil War soldier executed for war crimes. (10. November 1865)

Henry Morton Stanley locates missing explorer and missionary, Dr. David Livingstone in Ujiji, near Lake Tanganyika, famously greeting him with the words, "Dr. Livingstone, I presume?". (10. November 1871)

Beginning of the Wilmington Insurrection of 1898, the only instance of a municipal government being overthrown in US history. (10. November 1898)

The date of Thomas A. Davis' opening of the San Diego Army and Navy Academy, though the official founding date is November 23, 1910. (10. November 1910)

The Western Union Cable Office in North Sydney, Nova Scotia, receives a top-secret coded message from Europe (that would be sent to Ottawa, Ontario, and Washington, DC) that said on November 11, 1918, all fighting would cease on land, sea and in the air. (10. November 1918)

The first national convention of the American Legion is held in Minneapolis, Minnesota, ending on November 12. (10. November 1919)