What happened on 10 January?

10 events from the Ever-When timeline, ranked by how much they mattered.

1. 49 BCE Caesar crosses the Rubicon Caesar's army enters Italy in defiance of the Senate.
2. 1927 Metropolis premieres Fritz Lang's silent science-fiction epic of a future class-divided city.
3. 1920 League of Nations established Founded to keep the peace; headquartered in Geneva; Wilson's lasting legacy despite US non-membership.
4. 1957 Harold Macmillan's premiership Never had it so good: affluence, African decolonisation, the Profumo affair and a French veto on Europe.
5. 1863 London Underground opens Metropolitan Railway carries passengers under London; first underground railway in the world.
6. 1776 Paine's Common Sense Thomas Paine's pamphlet making the case for American independence; 500,000 copies sold; transforms colonial opinion.
7. 976 Reign of Basil II 'Bulgar-Slayer' Macedonian emperor at the empire's medieval peak; destroys the First Bulgarian Empire after a 30-year campaign.
8. 1917 The Silent Sentinels picket the White House Alice Paul's National Woman's Party mounts the first-ever picket of the White House: women standing silent at the gates six days a week, holding the president's own words on banner
9. 1870 Standard Oil founded Rockefeller's vehicle for vertical integration of oil refining; broken up in 1911.
10. 1356 Golden Bull of 1356 Charles IV's imperial constitution; fixes the seven electors who choose the Holy Roman Emperor.