Portal:Belgium/Anniversaries/January/January 10


 * 1480: birth of Margarete of Austria, second Governor of the Habsburg Netherlands
 * 1635: birth of Alexander Farnese, Prince of Parma, Governor of the Habsburg Netherlands
 * 1664: death of Antonius Sanderus, historian, author of Flandria Illustrata (other sources give January 16 as the date)
 * 1882: birth of Eugène Joseph Delporte, astronomer, discovered 66 asteroids including 1221 Amor
 * 1929: beginning of the first of The Adventures of Tintin by Hergé in Le Petit Vingtième: Tintin in the Land of the Soviets
 * 2005: death of Jan Pieter Schotte, Roman Catholic cardinal and official of the Roman Curia