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On November 10, 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.

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Featured moment · 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.

Leo II, called the Younger, briefly reigned as a child emperor of the Eastern Roman Empire from 473 to 474. He was the son of Zeno, the Isaurian general and future emperor, and Ariadne, a daughter of the emperor Leo I. Leo II was made co-emperor with his grandfather Leo I on 17 November 473, and became sole emperor on 18 January 474 after Leo I died of dysentery.

People

Born on November 10

Christian Convery 2009– Canadian child actor (born 2009)
Luca Del Bel Belluz 2003– Canadian ice hockey player (born 2003)
Eduardo Camavinga 2002– Footballer (born 2002)
Mackenzie Foy 2000– American actress and model (born 2000)
Scotty Pippen Jr. 2000– American basketball player (born 2000)
Oliver Sonne 2000– Peruvian footballer (born 2000)
Armand Duplantis 1999– Swedish and American pole vaulter (born 1999)
Michael Cimino 1999– American actor (born 1999)
Hugo Duro 1999– Spanish footballer (born 1999)
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João Félix 1999– Portuguese footballer (born 1999)
Michael J. Keplinger 1999– Austrian musician and filmmaker
Kiernan Shipka 1999– American actress (born 1999)
Claudine Co 1998– Filipino singer and influencer (born 1998)
Karen Villanueva 1998– Mexican rhythmic gymnast
Federico Dimarco 1997– Italian footballer (born 1997)
Marios Georgiou 1997– Cypriot artistic gymnast
Maurice Gomis 1997– Bissau-Guinean footballer
Daniel James 1997– Wales international footballer (born 1997)

People

Died on November 10

Tim Sullivan American novelist (1948–2024)
Kevin Conroy American actor (1955–2022)
Miroslav Žbirka Slovak musician (1952–2021)
Saeb Erekat Palestinian politician and diplomat (1955–2020)
Gene Amdahl American computer architect and high-tech entrepreneur
Pat Eddery Irish champion jockey (1952–2015)
André Glucksmann French philosopher, activist, and writer (1937–2015)
Helmut Schmidt Chancellor of Germany from 1974 to 1982
Allen Toussaint American musician, songwriter and record producer (1938–2015)
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Josip Boljkovac Croatian politician
Wayne Goss Australian politician
John Hans Krebs American politician
Dorian "Doc" Paskowitz American physician
Al Renfrew American ice hockey player and coach (born 1924)
Vijaydan Detha Rajasthani folklorist and writer (1926 – 2013)
John Grant Australian neurosurgeon and disability sport administrator
John Matchefts American ice hockey player and coach
Giorgio Orelli Swiss writer (1921–2013)

Timeline

Every November 10 on record

  1. 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.

    Eastern Roman emperor in 474

    Leo II, called the Younger, briefly reigned as a child emperor of the Eastern Roman Empire from 473 to 474. He was the son of Zeno, the Isaurian general and future emperor, and Ariadne, a daughter of the emperor Leo I. Leo II was made co-emperor with his grandfather Leo I on 17 November 473, and became sole emperor on 18 January 474 after Leo I died of dysentery.

  2. 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.

    Period of Chinese history (907–979)

    The Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms Period was an era of political upheaval and division in Imperial China from 907 to 979 AD. Five dynastic states quickly succeeded one another in the Central Plain, and more than a dozen concurrent dynastic states, of which the most powerful and influential ten were known as the ten kingdoms, were established elsewhere, mainly in South China. It was a prolonged period of multiple political divisions in Chinese imperial history.

  3. 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)

    The Fourth Crusade (1202–1204) was a Latin Christian armed expedition called by Pope Innocent III. The stated intent of the expedition was to recapture the Muslim-controlled city of Jerusalem, by first defeating the powerful Egyptian Ayyubid Sultanate. However, a sequence of economic and political events culminated in the Crusader army's 1202 siege of Zara and the 1204 sack of Constantinople, rather than the conquest of Egypt as originally planned.

  4. 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

    Raden Wijaya (Rāden Wijaya, also spelt Vijaya) alias Nararya Sangramawijaya (Regnal name Kertarajasa Jayawardhana) was a Javanese prince and the founder of the Majapahit Empire, which ruled Java and much of the Nusantara spanning both Asia and Oceania until the 16th century.

  5. 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

    The Battle of Varna took place on 10 November 1444 near Varna in what is today eastern Bulgaria. The Ottoman army under Sultan Murad II defeated the Crusaders commanded by King Władysław III of Poland and Hungary, John Hunyadi and Mircea II of Wallachia. It was the final battle of the unsuccessful Crusade of Varna, a last-ditch effort to prevent further Ottoman expansion into the Balkans.

  6. 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.
  7. 1659 Chattrapati Shivaji Maharaj, Maratha King kills Afzal Khan, Adilshahi in the battle popularly known as Battle of Pratapgarh.
  8. 1674 Third Anglo-Dutch War: As provided in the Treaty of Westminster, Netherlands cedes New Netherland to England.
  9. 1702 English colonists under the command of James Moore besiege Spanish St. Augustine during Queen Anne's War.
  10. 1766 The last colonial governor of New Jersey, William Franklin, signs the charter of Queen's College (later renamed Rutgers University).
  11. 1775 The United States Marine Corps is founded at Tun Tavern in Philadelphia by Samuel Nicholas.
  12. 1793 A Goddess of Reason is proclaimed by the French Convention at the suggestion of Pierre Gaspard Chaumette.
  13. 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.
  14. 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.
  15. 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.
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  1. 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?"
  2. 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.
  3. 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.
  4. 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.
  5. 1939 Finnish author F. E. Sillanpää is awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature.
  6. 1940 The 1940 Vrancea earthquake strikes Romania killing an estimated 1,000 and injuring approximately 4,000 more.
  7. 1942 World War II: Germany invades Vichy France following French Admiral François Darlan's agreement to an armistice with the Allies in North Africa.
  8. 1944 The ammunition ship USS Mount Hood explodes at Seeadler Harbour, Manus, Admiralty Islands, killing at least 432 and wounding 371.
  9. 1945 Heavy fighting in Surabaya between Indonesian nationalists and returning colonialists after World War II, today celebrated as Heroes' Day (Hari Pahlawan).
  10. 1946 A magnitude 6.9 earthquake in the Peruvian Andes mountains kills at least 1,400 people.
  11. 1951 With the rollout of the North American Numbering Plan, direct-dial coast-to-coast telephone service begins in the United States.
  12. 1954 U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower dedicates the USMC War Memorial (Iwo Jima memorial) in Arlington Ridge Park in Arlington County, Virginia.
  13. 1958 The Hope Diamond is donated to the Smithsonian Institution by New York diamond merchant Harry Winston.
  14. 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.
  15. 1969 National Educational Television (the predecessor to the Public Broadcasting Service) in the United States debuts Sesame Street.

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