Template:On this day - April 10

Maximilian I of Mexico

• 1267 – Birth of James II, nicknamed the Just, King of Aragon (d. 1327).
• 1814 – The Battle of Toulouse begins, the last of the Napoleonic Invasion of Spain, already on French territory.
• 1663 – Birth of Fray Francisco de Berganza y Arce, Spanish religious and historian (d. 1738).
• 1858 – Birth of Pedro Ibarra Ruiz, Spanish archaeologist, researcher, writer and painter (d. 1934).
• 1864 – In Mexico, Archduke Maximilian of Habsburg agrees to become emperor of Mexico.
• 1865 – The Moderate Party government of General Narváez orders the Guardia Civil, together with infantry and cavalry units of the Spanish army, to violently repress the student protests at the Central University of Madrid, during the Night of Saint Daniel.
• 1869 – In Guáimaro, Camagüey, the first Constitution of the Republic of Cuba is drafted.
• 1882 – In Buenos Aires, the first Pedagogical Congress held in Latin America opens.
• 1887 – Birth of Bernardo Houssay, Argentine physician, biologist and physiologist, Nobel Prize in Medicine in 1947 (d. 1971).
• 1892 – In Cuba, José Martí founds the Cuban Revolutionary Party (PRC).
• 1899 – In Seville (Spain), the first Spanish test of wireless telegraphy takes place.
• 1902 – Death of Bartomeu Robert, Spanish physician and politician (b. 1842).
• 1919 – In Mexico, Emiliano Zapata, one of the leaders of the Mexican Revolution, is killed in an ambush.
• 1931 – Death of Lisandro Alvarado, Venezuelan physician, naturalist, historian, ethnologist and linguist (b. 1858).
• 1940 – Birth of Carlos Manuel Varela, Uruguayan theater director, playwright, cultural manager and professor (d. 2015).
• 1944 – Death of Eugenio Nadal Gaya, Spanish journalist and writer, in whose honor the Nadal Prize for Literature was created (b. 1917).
• 1979 – 45 children and 4 adults die when a coach falls into the Órbigo River, in Zamora (Spain).
• 1982 – Around 300,000 people fill the Plaza de Mayo in support of the Argentine invasion of the Malvinas.
• 2003 – Death of Chumi Chúmez, Spanish cartoonist, writer and film director (b. 1927).