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“The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves.”
~ William Hazlitt
Wikiquote (William Hazlitt (April 10, 1778 – September 18, 1830) an English writer, remembered for his humanistic essays and literary criticism, and as an art critic, drama critic, social commentator, and philosopher.)
April 10th, 428
Byzantine Empire (East Roman Empire):
428 - Nestorius becomes Patriarch of Constantinople.
Wikipedia Image: The Baptism of Constantine painted by Raphael's pupils (1520–1524, fresco, Vatican City, Apostolic Palace); Mural of Saints Cyril and Methodius, 19th century, Troyan Monastery, Bulgaria; Justinian I depicted on one of the famous mosaics of the Basilica of San Vitale, Ravenna; The Greek fire was first used by the Byzantine Navy during the Byzantine-Arab Wars (from the Madrid Skylitzes, Biblioteca Nacional de España, Madrid); Alexios I, founder of the Komnenos dynasty.
Photo: Byzantine Empire is the great church of Hagia Sophia (Church of the Holy Wisdom) in Constantinople (562).
April 10th, 837
Halley's Comet and Earth experienced their closest approach to one another when their separating distance equalled 0.0342 Astronomical unit (AU) (3.2 million miles).
Wikipedia Image: Halley's Comet, NASA ● The nucleus of Halley's Comet is an orbiting iceberg. (Halley Multicolor Camera Team, Giotto Project, ESA).
April 10th, 879
Louis III of France becomes King of the Western Franks.
Wikipedia Painting: Battle of Saucourt-en-Vimeu: Louis III of France defeats the Vikings, an event celebrated in the poem Ludwigslied on August 3rd, 881.
April 10th, 1407
China - Three Kingdoms period:
1407 - the lama Deshin Shekpa visits the Ming Dynasty capital at Nanjing. He is awarded with the title Great Treasure Prince of Dharma.
Wikipedia Photo: China from NASA Wordwind Satellite; © Great Wall of China, credit National Geographic; LongJi Terrace, credit National Geographic; Great Bear Rainforest, credit Paul Nicklen, National Geographic; Platoons of clay soldiers were buried with China's first emperor, Qin Shi Huang Di, (required a labor force of 700,000 to build), credit O. Louis Mazzatenta, National Geographic.
April 10th, 1500
Ludovico Sforza is captured by the Swiss troops at Novara and is handed over to the French.
Wikipedia Image: Ludovico Sforza best known as the man who commissioned Leonardo da Vinci's The Last Supper.
April 10th, 1606
The Charter of 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.
Wikipedia Painting: James I of England; James VI and I (June 19, 1566 – March 27, 1625) King of Scotland as James VI from July 24, 1567 and King of England and Ireland as James I from the union of the English and Scottish crowns on March 24, 1603 until his death.
April 10th, 1710
Statute of Anne: The first law regulating copyright, enters into force in Great Britain.
Wikipedia Image: Anne, Queen of Great Britain - Statute of Anne.
April 10th, 1741
War of the Austrian Succession: Battle of Mollwitz; Prussia defeats Austria.
Wikipedia Painting: War of the Austrian Succession: Battle of Fontenoy by Pierre L'Enfant (Oil on canvas) ● Battle of Fontenoy between the French and the British, by Louis-Nicolas van Blarenbergh ● Battle of Cape Finisterre (1747) A British fleet under Admiral George Anson defeats the French.
April 10th, 1809
French Revolutionary Wars / Napoleonic Wars:
1809 - War of the Fifth Coalition; Austria invades Bavaria.
Wikipedia Painting: Battle of Trafalgar: The British HMS Sandwich fires to the French flagship Bucentaure (completely dismasted) in the battle of Trafalgar;
Napoleon in Berlin (Meynier). After defeating Prussian forces at Jena, the French Army entered Berlin on 27 October 1806;
Battle of the Bridge of Arcole Napoleon Bonaparte leading his troops over the bridge of Arcole, by Horace Vernet;
Napoleon as King of Italy (Appiani);
Napoleon Crossing the Alps (David). In 1800 Bonaparte took the French Army across the Alps, eventually defeating the Austrians at Marengo;
Charge of the Russian Imperial Guard cavalry against French cuirassiers at the Battle of Friedland, 14 June 1807;
Battle of Borodino as depicted by Louis Lejeune. The battle was the largest and bloodiest single-day action of the Napoleonic Wars;
Napoleon's withdrawal from Russia, a painting by Adolph Northen;
Wellington at Waterloo by Robert Alexander Hillingford;
Napoleon is often represented in his green colonel uniform of the Chasseur à Cheval, with a large bicorne and a hand-in-waistcoat gesture.
Battle of the Nile (Battle of Aboukir Bay).
April 10th, 1815
Earthquake:
1815 - 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 (Year Without a Summer) for the next two years.
Wikipedia Image: Preliminary Determination of Epicenters / Aleppo Syria; Anchorage, Alaska - March 28, 1964 Prince William Sound USA earthquake and tsunami; 8.9 Mega Earthquake Strikes Japan; Tsunami Swirls Japan's Ibaraki Prefecture March 12 2011. credit NOAA / NGDC, NOAA National Geophysical Data Center, USGS, National Geographics.
April 10th, 1816
The United States Government approves the creation of the Second Bank of the United States.
Wikipedia Photo: The south façade of the Second Bank of the United States at 4th and Chestnut Streets in Independence National Historical Park.
April 10th, 1858
After the original Big Ben, a 14.5 tonne bell for the Palace of Westminster had cracked during testing, it is recast into the current 13.76 tonne bell by Whitechapel Bell Foundry.
Wikipedia Photo: Close-Up of the Clock Face of Big Ben Houses of Parliament Westminster London England; The Big Ben and the Houses of Parliament
April 10th, 1864
Mexican War of Independence:
1864 - French intervention in Mexico; Archduke Maximilian of Habsburg is proclaimed emperor of Mexico.
Wikipedia Painting: Mexican War of Independence
April 10th, 1865
American Civil War:
1865 - A day after his surrender to Union forces, Confederate General Robert E. Lee addresses his troops for the last time.
Wikipedia Image: ● Lincoln Memorial; an American national monument built to honor the 16th President of the United States, Abraham Lincoln - located on the National Mall in Washington, D.C. across from the Washington Monument.
● The northern army led by George McClellan and the southern army led by Robert E. Lee met at Antietam Creek, Maryland in September, 1862. It was a bloody battle where 13,000 Confederates and 12,000 Union troops died in just one day. McClellan had hesitated to attack before the battle thus letting the southern troops regroup. Also, he had saved reserves and refused to use them at the end of the battle thinking that Lee was holding reserves for a counterattack, even though those reserves didn't exist. The Union victory stopped Lee's northward advance and was a turning point in the war.
● Battle of Antietam / Stone Bridge at Antietam Battlefield - Sharpsburg, Maryland
● First Battle Between Ironclads: CSS Virginia/Merrimac (left) vs. USS Monitor, in 1862 at the Battle of Hampton Roads.
● Although photography was still in its infancy, war correspondents produced thousands of images, bringing the harsh realities of the frontlines to those on the home front in a new and visceral way. The Atlantic.
April 10th, 1866
American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals: (ASPCA) is founded in New York City by Henry Bergh.
Wikipedia Photo: American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (ASPCA).
April 10th, 1912
The ill fated RMS Titanic leaves port in Southampton, England for her first and only voyage.
Wikipedia Image: RMS Titanic was a British passenger liner that sank in the North Atlantic Ocean on April 15, 1912 after colliding with an iceberg during her maiden voyage from Southampton, UK to New York City, US. The sinking of Titanic caused the deaths of 1,502 people in one of the deadliest peacetime maritime disasters in modern history.
April 10th, 1916
The Professional Golfers Association of America (PGA) is created in New York City.
Wikipedia Image: Professional Golfers Association of America (PGA)
April 10th, 1919
Mexican Revolution: Leader Emiliano Zapata is ambushed and shot dead by government forces in Morelos.
Wikipedia Photo: Satellite view of Mexico; American forces at Veracruz; Pancho Villa And Army; Peasant soldiers patrol the town of Tampico during the Mexican Revolution; Zapata's soldiers breakfast at Sanborns, Mexico City, 1914.
April 10th, 1925
The Great Gatsby: by F. Scott Fitzgerald is first published in New York City, by Charles Scribner's Sons.
Wikipedia Image: The Great Gatsby: Cover of the first edition, 1925.
April 10th, 1940
World War II: Katyn Massacre;
1940 - Mass execution of 40 thousands Polish officers and intelligentsia approved and signed by Soviet leader Joseph Stalin.
Wikipedia Photo: Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin (December 18, 1878 – March 5. 1953) was the Premier of the Soviet Union from 6 May 1941 until his death in 5 March 1953 ● Young Ioseb, 1894, aged 16 (left) and 23 (right) 1902 ● Prior to the revolution of 1917, Stalin played an active role in fighting the tsarist government. Here he is shown on a 1911 information card from the files of the Tsarist secret police in Saint Petersburg ● Stalin and Vladimir Lenin in 1919 ● A group of participants in the 8th Congress of the Russian Communist Party, 1919. In the middle are Stalin, Vladimir Lenin, and Mikhail Kalinin. ● Stalin in 1941, about 63 years of age.
April 10th, 1941
World War II:
1941 - The Axis Powers in Europe establish the Independent State of Croatia from occupied Yugoslavia with Ante Pavelić's Ustaše fascist insurgents in power.
Wikipedia Photo: Bombing of Dresden in World War II; August Schreitmüller's sculpture 'Goodness' surveys Dresden after a firestorm started by Allied bombers in 1945.
USS Bunker Hill was hit by kamikazes piloted by Ensign Kiyoshi Ogawa and another airman on 11 May 1945. 389 personnel were killed or missing from a crew of 2,600; Ensign Kiyoshi Ogawa, who flew his aircraft into the USS Bunker Hill during a Kamikaze mission on 11 May 1945; Kamikaze Missions - Lt Yoshinori Yamaguchi's Yokosuka D4Y3 (Type 33 Suisei) "Judy" in a suicide dive against USS Essex. The dive brakes are extended and the non-self-sealing port wing tank is trailing fuel vapor and/or smoke 25 November 1944.
German V1 flying-bomb and V2 Rockets - Preparations for a Salvo Launch of V-2 Rockets in the Heidelager near Blizna (Poland) (1944), credit German History in Documents and Images GHDI.
Eastern Front (World War II); Germans race towards Stalingrad. August 1942; Soviet children during a German air raid in the first days of the war, June 1941, by RIA Novosti archive; Soviet sniper Roza Shanina in 1944. About 400,000 Soviet women served in front-line duty units Caucasus Mountains, winter 1942/43; Finnish ski patrol: the invisible enemy of the Soviet Army with an unlimited supply of skis; Men of the German Engineers Corps cross a river which is swollen after the first autumn rains, to strengthen bridges linking the German positions on the central front in Russia. by Keystone / Getty Images. October 1942; Russian snipers fighting on the Leningrad front during a blizzard. Photo by Hulton Archive / Getty Images, 1943; German soldiers surrendering to the Russians in Stalingrad, the soldier holding the white flag of surrender is dressed in white so that there could be no doubt of his intentions, a Russian soldier is on the right of the photograph. by Keystone / Getty Images, January 1943.
April 10th, 1944
World War II: Holocaust;
1944 - Rudolf Vrba and Alfred Wetzler escape from the Birkenau (Auschwitz concentration camp) death camp.
Wikipedia Photo: World War II, The Holocaust. Sources: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum USHMM, History 1900s, Internet Masters of Education Technology IMET, Techno Friends, Veterans Today, Concern.
April 10th, 1957
Warner Brothers premieres the first 3-D film from a major American studio, entitled House of Wax.
Wikipedia Image: House of Wax is a 1953 American horror film starring Vincent Price. (House of Wax original film poster)
April 10th, 1963
129 American sailors die when the submarine USS Thresher (SSN-593) sinks at sea.
Wikipedia Image: The submarine USS Thresher (SSN-593), credit Commander Submarine Group 7, Navy.mil.
April 10th, 1970
Paul McCartney announces that he is leaving The Beatles or personal and professional reasons.
Wikipedia Photo: The Ed Sullivan Show ● The Beatles 1st Ed Sullivan Performance (REMASTERED), Youtube 
April 10th, 1972
Vietnam War:
1972 - For the first time since November 1967, American B-52 Stratofortress bombers reportedly begin bombing North Vietnam.
Wikipedia Photo: Vietnam_War; Side view of an HH-53 helicopter of the 40th Aerospace Rescue and Recovery Squadron as seen from the gunner's position on an A-1 of the 21st Specialist Operations Squadron. (USAF Photo by Ken Hackman), Boston Globe;
Boeing B-52 Stratofortress, credit Free Republic;
Vietnam War: The Big Picture / Boston Globe.
April 10th, 1979
Tornadoes:
1979 - Red River Valley Tornado Outbreak; A tornado in Wichita Falls, Texas kills 42 people.
Wikipedia Photo: Weather Front System; Tornado near Anadarko, Oklahoma; North Dakota Tornado; F3 Category Tornado Swirls Across A South Dakota Prairie by Carsten Peter; A waterspout parallels a lightning strike over Lake Okeechobee in Florida, by Fred K. Smith, National Geographics, Extream Instability.
April 10th, 1992
Nagorno-Karabakh War:
1992 Maraghar Massacre: killing of ethnic Armenian civil population of the village Maraghar by Azerbaijani troops.
Wikipedia Image: Khojaly Massacre: was the killing of hundreds of ethnic Azerbaijani civilians from the town of Khojaly on February 25–26, 1992 by the Armenian and, partially, by CIS armed forces during the Nagorno-Karabakh War.
April 10th, 2010
Aviation accidents and incidents:
2010 - Polish Air Force Tu-154M crash; near Smolensk, Russia, killing all 96 people on board including President of Poland Lech Kaczyński.
Wikipedia Photo: ● Pan AM 747 ● U.S. Airways flight 1549 also known as the "Miracle on the Hudson" navigates an exit ramp near Burlington, New Jersey, June 5, 2011 ● Passengers stand on the wings of a U.S. Airways plane as a ferry pulls up to it after it landed in the Hudson River in New York, Reuters ● U.S. Airways plane crashes into New York Hudson River, Photo: AP
April 10th, 2016
Paravur temple fire: a devastating fire caused by the explosion of firecrackers stored for Vishu, kills more than one hundred people out of the thousands gathered for seventh day of Bhadrakali worship in India.
Wikipedia Photo: Paravur temple fire: a devastating fire caused by the explosion of firecrackers stored for Vishu, kills more than one hundred people.