What happened on 10 December?

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

1. 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights The UN adopts the first global statement of inalienable human rights, drafted under Eleanor Roosevelt.
2. 1884 Twain's Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Mark Twain's novel of a boy and an escaped slave rafting the Mississippi.
3. 1751 Born: Tipu Sultan 'Tiger of Mysore'; fought four Anglo-Mysore wars against the EIC; killed at Seringapatam 1799.
4. 1901 First Nobel Prizes awarded Inaugural Nobel Prizes presented in Stockholm and Oslo.
5. 1830 Born: Emily Dickinson Reclusive American poet; published mostly posthumously.
6. 1848 Louis-Napoleon elected French president Ten months after the February revolution, France elects Napoleon's nephew president of the Second Republic by a landslide — a famous name over the men who made the revolution. With
7. 1815 Born: Ada Lovelace Mathematician who wrote the first algorithm for Babbage's Analytical Engine — regarded as the first computer programmer.
8. 1962 Lawrence of Arabia film released David Lean's widescreen biopic of T. E. Lawrence in the Arab Revolt.
9. 1520 Luther burns the papal bull Threatened with excommunication unless he recants, Luther gathers students at Wittenberg's Elster Gate and throws the papal bull Exsurge Domine — and volumes of canon law — onto a
10. 1834 Robert Peel's first premiership Peel issues the Tamworth Manifesto, founding document of the modern Conservative Party, but cannot govern without a majority.