Portal:Belgium/Anniversaries/January/January 10
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- 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