December 10

Thursday 10, 1936:

Edward VIII, the only British monarch to have voluntarily relinquished the throne, signed his instrument of abdication.

Saturday 10, 1904:

Pi Kappa Phi is founded in Charleston, South Carolina

Friday 10, 1869:

Wyoming grants women the right to vote

Sunday 10, 1684:

Isaac Newton's derivation of Kepler's laws from his theory of gravity, contained in the paper De motu corporum in gyrum read out to the Royal Society by Edmund Halley.

Thursday 10, 1508:

League of Cambrai formed as an alliance against Venice between Pope Julius II, Louis XII of France, Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor and Ferdinand II of Aragon.