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In 1674, Third Anglo-Dutch War: As provided in the Treaty of Westminster, Netherlands cedes New Netherland to England. This featured entry focuses on the immediate decision and its direct historical impact.
November 10 in History
1674 — Third Anglo-Dutch War: As provided in the Treaty of Westminster, Netherlands cedes New Netherland to England
November 10 spans 53 recorded events across recorded history, from 474 to 2020. Below is a curated digest of the most significant moments tied to this date.
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Historical Events
53 events
474 – 2020
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More major events on November 10
The featured story and these ranked highlights form a quick summary. Every recorded event remains available in the chronology below.
- 1970 Vietnam War: Vietnamization: For the first time in five years, an entire week ends with no reports of American combat fatalities in Southeast Asia. Source
- 1954 U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower dedicates the USMC War Memorial (Iwo Jima memorial) in Arlington Ridge Park in Arlington County, Virginia. Source
- 1293 Raden Wijaya is crowned as the first monarch of Majapahit kingdom of Java, taking the throne name Kertarajasa Jayawardhana. Source
Did you know
The Third Anglo-Dutch War, began on 27 March 1672, and concluded on 19 February 1674. This helps explain why the event mattered beyond the initial announcement.
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A naval conflict between the Dutch Republic and England, in alliance with France, it is considered a related conflict of the wider 1672 to 1678 Franco-Dutch War. This clarifies the institutional and public response around the event.
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In 1674, Third Anglo-Dutch War: As provided in the Treaty of Westminster, Netherlands cedes New Netherland to England had consequences that extended beyond the first headline. The key context is the institutions involved, the policy shift, and how the public response evolved afterward.
Did you know
In 1674, Third Anglo-Dutch War: As provided in the Treaty of Westminster, Netherlands cedes New Netherland to England had consequences that extended beyond the first headline. The key context is the institutions involved, the policy shift, and how the public response evolved afterward.
474
Emperor Leo II dies after a reign of ten months.
He is succeeded by his father Zeno, who becomes sole ruler of the Byzantine Empire.
937
Ten Kingdoms: Li Bian usurps the throne and deposes Emperor Yang Pu.
The Wu State is replaced by Li (now called "Xu Zhigao"), who becomes the first ruler of Southern Tang.
1202
Fourth Crusade: Despite letters from Pope Innocent III forbidding it and threatening excommunication, Catholic crusaders begin a siege of Zara (now Zadar, Croatia).
Latin Christian armed expedition (1202–1204)
1293
Raden Wijaya is crowned as the first monarch of Majapahit kingdom of Java, taking the throne name Kertarajasa Jayawardhana.
13th-century Javanese emperor, the founder and the first monarch of Majapahit empire
1444
Battle of Varna: The crusading forces of King Władysław III of Poland (aka Ulaszlo I of Hungary and Władysław III of Varna) are defeated by the Turks under Sultan Murad II and Władysław is killed.
Battle in the Crusade of Varna
1599
Åbo Bloodbath: Fourteen noblemen who opposed Duke Charles are decapitated in the Old Great Square of Turku (Swedish: Åbo) for their involvement in the War against Sigismund.
1599 public execution in Turku (Åbo), Finland
1659
Chattrapati Shivaji Maharaj, Maratha King kills Afzal Khan, Adilshahi in the battle popularly known as Battle of Pratapgarh.
Chhatrapati of the Marathas from 1674 to 1680
1702
English colonists under the command of James Moore besiege Spanish St.
Augustine during Queen Anne's War.
1766
The last colonial governor of New Jersey, William Franklin, signs the charter of Queen's College (later renamed Rutgers University).
U.S. state
1775
The United States Marine Corps is founded at Tun Tavern in Philadelphia by Samuel Nicholas.
Naval infantry branch of the U.S. military
1793
A Goddess of Reason is proclaimed by the French Convention at the suggestion of Pierre Gaspard Chaumette.
1793–1794 French state-sponsored atheist belief system
1821
Cry of Independence by Rufina Alfaro at La Villa de Los Santos, Panama setting into motion a revolt which led to Panama's independence from Spain and to it immediately becoming part of Colombia.
Panamanian independence movement figure
1847
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.
1865
Major Henry Wirz, the superintendent of a prison camp in Andersonville, Georgia, is hanged, becoming one of only three American Civil War soldiers executed for war crimes.
Confederate States Army officer and doctor (1823–1865)
1871
Henry Morton Stanley locates missing explorer and missionary, David Livingstone in Ujiji, near Lake Tanganyika, famously greeting him with the words, "Dr.
Livingstone, I presume?"
1898
White supremacists seized power and massacred black Americans during the Wilmington massacre, the only instance of a municipal government being overthrown in United States history.
Belief in the superiority of white people
1910
The date of Thomas A.
Davis' opening of the San Diego Army and Navy Academy, although the official founding date is November 23, 1910.
1918
The Western Union Cable Office in North Sydney, Nova Scotia, receives a top-secret coded message from Europe (that would be sent to Ottawa and Washington, D.C.) that said on November 11, 1918, all fighting would cease on land, sea and in the air.
Community in Nova Scotia, Canada
1940
The 1940 Vrancea earthquake strikes Romania killing an estimated 1,000 and injuring approximately 4,000 more.
1940 earthquake in eastern Romania
1942
World War II: Germany invades Vichy France following French Admiral François Darlan's agreement to an armistice with the Allies in North Africa.
German state from 1933 to 1945
1944
The ammunition ship USS Mount Hood explodes at Seeadler Harbour, Manus, Admiralty Islands, killing at least 432 and wounding 371.
US Navy ammunition ship
1945
Heavy fighting in Surabaya between Indonesian nationalists and returning colonialists after World War II, today celebrated as Heroes' Day (Hari Pahlawan).
Battle between British and Indonesian forces
1946
A magnitude 6.9 earthquake in the Peruvian Andes mountains kills at least 1,400 people.
Earthquake affecting Peru
1951
With the rollout of the North American Numbering Plan, direct-dial coast-to-coast telephone service begins in the United States.
Integrated telephone numbering plan of twenty North American countries
1954
U.S.
President Dwight D. Eisenhower dedicates the USMC War Memorial (Iwo Jima memorial) in Arlington Ridge Park in Arlington County, Virginia.
1958
The Hope Diamond is donated to the Smithsonian Institution by New York diamond merchant Harry Winston.
Historic 45.52-carat diamond of deep-blue color
1967
The Nauru Independence Act 1967 passed the Parliament of Australia, giving independence to the UN Trust Territory of Nauru with effect from 31 January 1968.
Legal Act of Independence of Nauru
1969
National Educational Television (the predecessor to the Public Broadcasting Service) in the United States debuts Sesame Street.
Former American television network
1970
Vietnam War: Vietnamization: For the first time in five years, an entire week ends with no reports of American combat fatalities in Southeast Asia.
1955–1975 war in Southeast Asia
1970
Luna 17: uncrewed space mission launched by the Soviet Union.
1970 Soviet uncrewed lunar mission
1971
In Cambodia, Khmer Rouge forces attack the city of Phnom Penh and its airport, killing 44, wounding at least 30 and damaging nine aircraft.
Country in Southeast Asia
1971
A Merpati Nusantara Airlines Vickers Viscount crashes into the Indian Ocean near Padang, West Sumatra, Indonesia, killing all 69 people on board.
Airline of Indonesia (1962–2014)
1972
Southern Airways Flight 49 from Birmingham, Alabama is hijacked and, at one point, is threatened with crashing into the nuclear installation at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory.
After two days, the plane lands in Havana, Cuba, where the hijackers are jailed by Fidel Castro.
1975
The 729-foot-long freighter SS Edmund Fitzgerald sinks during a storm on Lake Superior, killing all 29 crew on board.
Great Lakes freighter sunk in Lake Superior
1975
Treaty of Osimo between Yugoslavia and Italy
1975 treaty regarding Italian-Yugoslavian border
1975
Israeli-Palestinian conflict: the United Nations General Assembly passes Resolution 3379, determining that Zionism is a form of racism.
Ongoing military and political conflict in West Asia
1979
A 106-car Canadian Pacific freight train carrying explosive and poisonous chemicals from Windsor, Ontario, Canada derails in Mississauga, Ontario.
Class I railway in Canada and the United States
1983
Bill Gates introduces Windows 1.0.
American businessman and philanthropist (born 1955)
1985
A Dassault Falcon 50 and a Piper PA-28 Cherokee collide in mid-air over Fairview, New Jersey, killing six people and injuring eight.
Midsize three engine long range business jet
1989
Longtime Bulgarian leader Todor Zhivkov is removed from office and replaced by Petar Mladenov.
Bulgarian state from 1946 to 1990
1989
1995
In Nigeria, playwright and environmental activist Ken Saro-Wiwa, along with eight others from the Movement for the Survival of the Ogoni People (Mosop), are hanged by government forces.
Country in West Africa
1997
WorldCom and MCI Communications announce a $37 billion merger (the largest merger in US history at the time).
American telecommunications company (1983–2006)
1999
World Anti-Doping Agency is formed in Lausanne.
Foundation created by the International Olympic Committee
2002
Veteran's Day Weekend Tornado Outbreak: A tornado outbreak stretching from Northern Ohio to the Gulf Coast, one of the largest outbreaks recorded in November.
Severe weather event in the eastern United States
2006
Sri Lankan Tamil politician Nadarajah Raviraj is assassinated in Colombo.
South Asian ethnic group
2006
The National Museum of the Marine Corps in Quantico, Virginia is opened and dedicated by U.S.
President George W. Bush, who announces that Marine Corporal Jason Dunham will posthumously receive the Medal of Honor.
2008
Over five months after landing on Mars, NASA declares the Phoenix mission concluded after communications with the lander were lost.
Fourth planet from the Sun
2009
Ships of the South and North Korean navies skirmish off Daecheong Island in the Yellow Sea.
2009 South and North Korean naval skirmish
2019
President of Bolivia Evo Morales and several of his government resign after 19 days of civil protests and a recommendation from the military.
President of Bolivia from 2006 to 2019
2020
Armenia and Azerbaijan sign a ceasefire agreement, ending the Second Nagorno-Karabakh War, and prompting protests in Armenia.
Country in West Asia