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==Events== * 428 – Nestorius becomes the Patriarch of Constantinople. * 837 – Halley's Comet makes its closest approach to Earth at a distance equal to 0.0342 AU (5.1 million kilometres/3.2 million miles). * 879 – Louis III and Carloman II become Kings of the Western Franks. *1407 – The lama Deshin Shekpa visits the Ming Dynasty capital at Nanjing. He is awarded the title "Great Treasure Prince of Dharma". *1500 – Ludovico Sforza is captured by Swiss troops at Novara and is handed over to the French. *1606 – The Virginia Company of London is established by royal charter by James I of England with the purpose of establishing colonial settlements in North America. *1710 – The Statute of Anne, the first law regulating copyright, comes into force in Great Britain. *1741 – War of the Austrian Succession (10 April 1755 – 2 July 1843): defeat for Austria at Mollwitz on this date. *1809 – Napoleonic Wars: The War of the Fifth Coalition begins when forces of the Austrian Empire invade Bavaria. *1815 – The Mount Tambora volcano begins a three-month-long eruption, lasting until July 15. The eruption ultimately kills 71,000 people and affects Earth's climate for the next two years. *1816 – The Federal government of the United States approves the creation of the Second Bank of the United States. *1821 – Patriarch Gregory V of Constantinople is hanged by the Ottoman government from the main gate of the Patriarchate and his body is thrown into the Bosphorus. *1826 – The 10,500 inhabitants of the Greek town of Missolonghi begin leaving the town after a year's siege by Turkish forces. Very few of them survive. *1856 – The Theta Chi fraternity is founded at Norwich University in Vermont. *1858 – After the original Big Ben, a bell for the Palace of Westminster had cracked during testing, it is recast into the current bell by Whitechapel Bell Foundry. *1864 – Archduke Maximilian of Habsburg is proclaimed emperor of Mexico during the French intervention in Mexico. *1865 – American Civil War: A day after his surrender to Union forces, Confederate General Robert E. Lee addresses his troops for the last time. *1866 – The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (ASPCA) is founded in New York City by Henry Bergh. *1868 – At Arogee in Abyssinia, British and Indian forces defeat an army of Emperor Tewodros II. While 700 Ethiopians are killed and many more injured, only two British/Indian troops die. *1872 – The first Arbor Day is celebrated in Nebraska. *1887 – On Easter Sunday, Pope Leo XIII authorizes the establishment of The Catholic University of America. *1904 – British mystic Aleister Crowley transcribes the third and final chapter of ''The Book of the Law''. *1912 – ''RMS Titanic'' sets sail from Southampton, England on her maiden and only voyage. *1916 – The Professional Golfers' Association of America (PGA) is created in New York City. *1919 – Mexican Revolution leader Emiliano Zapata is ambushed and shot dead by government forces in Morelos. *1925 – ''The Great Gatsby'' by F. Scott Fitzgerald is first published in New York City, by Charles Scribner's Sons. *1941 – World War II: The Axis powers in Europe establish the Independent State of Croatia from occupied Yugoslavia with Ante Pavelić's Ustaše fascist insurgents in power. *1944 – Rudolf Vrba and Alfréd Wetzler escape from the Birkenau death camp. *1953 – Warner Bros. premieres the first 3-D film from a major American studio, entitled ''House of Wax''. *1957 – The Suez Canal is reopened for all shipping after being closed for three months. *1959 – Akihito, future Emperor of Japan, marries Michiko. *1963 – One hundred twenty-nine American sailors die when the submarine sinks at sea. *1968 – New Zealand inter-island ferry founders and sinks at the mouth of Wellington Harbour. *1970 – Paul McCartney announces that he is leaving The Beatles for personal and professional reasons. *1971 – Ping-pong diplomacy: In an attempt to thaw relations with the United States, the People's Republic of China hosts the U.S. table tennis team for a week-long visit. *1972 – Twenty days after he is kidnapped in Buenos Aires, Oberdan Sallustro is murdered by communist guerrillas. * 1972 – Tombs containing bamboo slips, among them Sun Tzu's ''Art of War'' and Sun Bin's lost military treatise, are accidentally discovered by construction workers in Shandong. * 1972 – Vietnam War: For the first time since November 1967, American B-52 bombers reportedly begin bombing North Vietnam. * 1972 – Seventy-four nations sign the Biological Weapons Convention, the first multilateral disarmament treaty banning the production of biological weapons. *1973 – A British Vickers Vanguard turboprop aircraft crashes in a snowstorm at Basel, Switzerland killing 104 people. *1979 – Red River Valley tornado outbreak: A tornado lands in Wichita Falls, Texas killing 42 people. *1988 – The Ojhri Camp disaster: Killing more than 1,000 people in Rawalpindi and Islamabad as a result of rockets and other munitions expelled by the blast. *1991 – Italian ferry collides with an oil tanker in dense fog off Livorno, Italy killing 140. * 1991 – A rare tropical storm develops in the South Atlantic Ocean near Angola; the first to be documented by satellites. *1998 – Northern Ireland peace deal reached (Good Friday Agreement). *2009 – President of Fiji Ratu Josefa Iloilo announces he has abrogated the constitution and assume all governance in the country, creating a constitutional crisis. *2010 – Polish Air Force Tu-154M crashes near Smolensk, Russia, killing 96 people, including Polish President Lech Kaczyński and dozens of other senior officials 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「April 10」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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