What happened on 10 December?

16 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. 1949 Chiang Kai-shek flees to Taiwan With CCP victory in the civil war, the Republic of China government retreats to Taiwan.
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. 1903 The Curies share the Nobel Prize in Physics Marie and Pierre Curie share the prize with Henri Becquerel for their work on radioactivity; Marie is the first woman to win a Nobel Prize.
7. 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
8. 1815 Born: Ada Lovelace Mathematician who published the first algorithm for Babbage's Analytical Engine — regarded as the first computer programmer.
9. 1962 Lawrence of Arabia film released David Lean's widescreen biopic of T. E. Lawrence in the Arab Revolt.
10. 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
11. 1938 Fermi's Nobel Prize and escape from Italy Fermi takes his Jewish wife and their children to Stockholm to collect the Nobel Prize for his work on induced radioactivity — and sails on to New York rather than return to Mussol
12. 1930 Raman wins the Nobel Prize in Physics Two years after discovering the scattering effect that bears his name, Raman becomes the first Asian laureate in the sciences — so sure of winning that he booked his passage months
13. 1768 Royal Academy of Arts founded Under George III's personal patronage and purse, London's artists found the Royal Academy, with Joshua Reynolds as its first president and a school and annual exhibition at its hea
14. 1834 Robert Peel's first premiership Peel issues the Tamworth Manifesto, founding document of the modern Conservative Party, but cannot govern without a majority.
15. 1919 Proust wins the Prix Goncourt In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower, the second volume of In Search of Lost Time, takes France's top literary prize and makes Proust famous.
16. 1907 Kipling wins the Nobel Prize in Literature At 41 Kipling becomes the first English-language laureate and still the youngest winner of the literature prize.