- August 10, 0610 “In Islam, the traditional date of the Laylat al-Qadr, when Muhammed began to receive the Qur’an.”
- August 10, 0612 “BC – Killing of Sinsharishkun, King of Assyrian Empire. Destruction of Nineveh.”
- August 10, 0654 St Eugene I begins his reign as Catholic Pope
- August 10, 0955 “Battle of Lechfeld: Otto I, Holy Roman Emperor defeats Magyars, ending 50 years of Magyar invasion of the West.”
- August 10, 0955 The Battle of the Lechfeld August 10 ends 50 years of Magyar invasion of the West Otto the Great of Saxony defeats the Magyars with an army recruited from all the duchies
- August 10, 0991 “Battle of Maldon: English, led by Bryhtnoth, confront a band of inland-raiding Vikings near Maldon in Essex. The English are defeated and the story is immortalised in a well-known poem.”
- August 10, 1316 Second Battle of Athenry
- August 10, 1519 Ferdinand Magellan’s five ships set sail from Seville to circumnavigate the globe.
- August 10, 1519 Magellan’s 5 ship set sail to circumnavigate the Earth
- August 10, 1557 Battle of St. Quentin Spanish victory over the French in the Habsburg-Valois Wars
- August 10, 1628 The Swedish warship Vasa sinks in the Stockholm harbour after only about 20 minutes on her maiden voyage.
- August 10, 1680 Pueblo Indians rebel against Spaniards in Mexico
- August 10, 1680 Pueblo Revolt begins in New Mexico.
- August 10, 1743 Earliest recorded prize fighting rules formulated
- August 10, 1790 “Robert Gray’s Columbia, completes first American around world voyage”
- August 10, 1792 French Revolution: Storming of the Tuileries Palace. Louis XVI of France is arrested and taken into custody.
- August 10, 1792 Mobs in Paris attack the palace of Louis XVI
- August 10, 1809 Ecuador declares independence from Spain
- August 10, 1809 “Quito, now the capital of Ecuador, declares independence from Spain.”
- August 10, 1821 Missouri admitted as 24th US state
- August 10, 1821 Missouri is admitted as the 24th U.S. state.
- August 10, 1827 “Race riots in Cincinnati (1,000 blacks leave for Canada)”
- August 10, 1831 Former slave Nat Turner led violent insurrection against slavery
- August 10, 1833 Chicago incorporates as a village of about 200
- August 10, 1835 Mob of whites & oxen pulled black school to a swamp out of Canaan NH
- August 10, 1840 The ‘Star of the East’ first known balloon to fly in Canada.
- August 10, 1846 “Congress charters the “”nation’s attic,”” the Smithsonian Institution”
- August 10, 1846 “The Smithsonian Institution is chartered by the U.S. Congress after $500,000 was given for such a purpose by scientist James Smithson.”
- August 10, 1856 Hurricane washes away 300 in Louisiana
- August 10, 1856 “In Last Island, Louisiana, the 1856 Last Island Hurricane kills between 200 and 400 people.”
- August 10, 1866 Transatlantic cable laid
- August 10, 1877 First use of the telephone to dispatch trains. This was at the Caledonia Mine at Glace Bay on the Sydney Mines Railway. One of the owners was Gardiner G. Hubbard who was the father in law of Alexander Graham Bell who installed two telephones to control train movements.
- August 10, 1883 First train reaches Calgary.
- August 10, 1884 “In New York City, a 5.5 earthquake caused large cracks in walls at Amityville and Jamaica (intensity VII). The shock was felt strongly at New York City”
- August 10, 1887 “Excursion train crashes killing 101 in Chatsworth, Illinois”