On this day: 10 March
Events, births and deaths on 10 March. Every date is checked against Wikidata.
Years ago today
1 year ago2025
- Deaths · Wheesung
- Deaths · Francis Billy Hilly
- Deaths · Stanley R. Jaffe
10 years ago2016
- Deaths · Anita Brookner
- Deaths · Roberto Perfumo
- Deaths · Ken Adam
100 years ago1926
Within 10 years of that
- 1936 · Births · Sepp Blatter
- 1923 · Births · Val Logsdon Fitch
- 1928 · Births ·
1000 years ago1026
Nothing recorded for that year.
Events · 20
- 1695Battle of Sant Esteve d'en Bas — 1695 battle of the Nine Years' War
- 1830Royal Netherlands East Indies Army — military force maintained by the Netherlands in its colony of the Netherlands East Indies
- 1831Foreign Legion — Corps of the French Army, which is partly made up of foreign nationals
- 1905Chelsea F.C. — association football club in London, England
- 1906Courrières mine disaster — mining accident
- 1915Battle of Neuve Chapelle — 1915 battle in the First World War
- 1944Political Committee of National Liberation — 1944 communist-led provisional government in Greece
- 1945Bombing of Tokyo (10 March 1945) — 1945 Firebombing raid on Tokyo (WWII)
- 19521952 Cuban coup d'état — 1952 military coup led by Fulgencio Batista
- 19591959 Tibetan uprising — uprising in Lhasa, Tibet against China
- 1968Battle of Lima Site 85 — 1968 battle waged during the Vietnam War and Laotian Civil War by the North Vietnamese People's Army of Vietnam
- 19741974 Belgian general election — Election
- 1985Seikan Tunnel — undersea railway tunnel in Japan connecting Hokkaido and Honshu
- 1989Air Ontario Flight 1363 — March 1989 aviation accident in Ontario, Canada
- 2000dot-com bubble — historic speculative bubble covering roughly 1997–2000
- 2019Ethiopian Airlines Flight 302 — flight between Addis Ababa and Nairobi crashed on 10 March 2019
- 2019Boeing 737 MAX groundings — Boeing 737 MAX groundings due to safety concerns, after two new airplanes crashed within five months
- 20222022 Hungarian presidential election — Election in Hungary held in 2022
- 2023collapse of Silicon Valley Bank — 2023 bank run and collapse in California
- 20242024 Portuguese legislative election — legislative election held in Portugal
Births · 60
- 1415(Julian date)Vasily II of Moscow — Grand Prince of Moscow (1415-1462)
- 1452(Julian date)Ferdinand II of Aragon — King of Aragon, Sicily, Naples, and Valencia (1452-1516)
- 1503Ferdinand I, Holy Roman Emperor — emperador del SIR de 1556 a 1564 (1503-1564)
- 1604Johann Rudolf Glauber — German-Dutch alchemist (1604-1670)
- 1628Marcello Malpighi — Italian physician (1628-1694)
- 1709Georg Wilhelm Steller — Explorer and zoologist famous for discovering Steller's Sea Lion
- 1748John Playfair — Scottish scientist and mathematician (1748-1819)
- 1749Lorenzo Da Ponte — Italian opera librettist, poet and Roman Catholic priest (1749–1838)
- 1772Friedrich Schlegel — German poet, critic and scholar, editor
- 1776Louise of Mecklenburg-Strelitz — Queen consort of Prussia (1776–1810)
- 1787William Etty — British painter (1787-1849)
- 1787Francisco de Paula Martínez de la Rosa y Berdejo — Spanish dramatist and politician (1787-1862)
- 1788Joseph von Eichendorff — German poet and novelist (1788-1857)
- 1844Pablo de Sarasate — Spanish violinist and composer (1844–1908)
- 1845Alexander III of Russia — Emperor of Russia from 1881 to 1894
- 1847Kate Sheppard — prominent member of New Zealand's women's suffrage (1848–1934)
- 1867Hector Guimard — French architect (1867–1942)
- 1873Jakob Wassermann — German writer (1873-1934)
- 1877Pascual Ortiz Rubio — President of Mexico (1930-1932)
- 1888Barry Fitzgerald — Irish actor (1888–1961)
- 1891Sam Jaffe — American actor, teacher, musician and engineer (1891-1984)
- 1892Arthur Honegger — Swiss composer (1892-1955)
- 1900Violet Brown — Jamaican supercentenarian (1900–2017)
- 1903Bix Beiderbecke — American jazz musician (1903-1931)
- 1923Val Logsdon Fitch — American physicist
Deaths · 60
- 483(Julian date)Simplicius — pope
- 1291(Julian date)Arghun — the fourth Ilkhan of Mongol Ilkhanate (1284–1291)
- 1513(Julian date)John de Vere, 13th Earl of Oxford — English military commander during the English Wars of the Roses
- 1528Balthasar Hubmaier — German Anabaptist leader
- 1585Rembert Dodoens — Flemish physician and botanist (1517–1585)
- 1682Jacob van Ruisdael — Dutch painter and engraver (1628-1682)
- 1724Urban Hjärne — Swedish scholar, chemist and physicist (1641-1724)
- 1776Élie Catherine Fréron — French writer (1718–1776)
- 1792John Stuart, 3rd Earl of Bute — British nobleman, art collector, and Prime Minister of Great Britain (1713-1792)
- 1826John VI of Portugal — King of the United Kingdom of Portugal, Brazil and the Algarves from 1816 to 1825
- 1826John Pinkerton — British antiquarian (1758-1826)
- 1832Muzio Clementi — Italian-born English composer, pianist, pedagogue, conductor, music publisher, editor, and piano manufacturer
- 1861Taras Shevchenko — Ukrainian poet and artist (1814–1861)
- 1872Giuseppe Mazzini — Italian nationalist activist, politician, journalist and philosopher
- 1895Charles Frederick Worth — English fashion designer (1825-1895)
- 1897Savitribai Phule — Indian social reformer (1831-1897)
- 1898Marie-Eugénie de Jésus — Catholic Saint and Founder of religious order (1817–1898)
- 1910Carl Reinecke — German composer, conductor and pianist (1824–1910)
- 1910Karl Lueger — Austrian politician (1844-1910)
- 1913Harriet Tubman — African-American abolitionist (1822–1913)
- 1923Salvador Seguí — Catalan anarchist (1887-1923)
- 1925Myer Prinstein — American track athlete (1878-1925)
- 1937Yevgeny Zamyatin — Russian author (1884–1937)
- 1940Mikhail Bulgakov — Russian author (1891–1940)
- 1942William Henry Bragg — British scientist (1862–1942)
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