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August 10 in history

221 sourced entries recorded on August 10, from 30 BCE to 2025 CE. Every line is quoted from the revision it came from.

Events

  • 30 BCEAugust 10 or 12 – With the death of Cleopatra, probably by suicide, in Alexandria and the probable murder soon afterwards of her son and nominal co-ruler Caesarion, the Ptolemaic dynasty, the last of Ancient Egypt, comes to an end. The first year of Octavian's reign in Egypt.source
  • 435A figure known to Mayanist scholars as "Casper" begins a 52-year reign in the Mayan city-state of Palenque what is now the state of Chiapas in southern Mexico, and reigns until his death in 487.source
  • 654The exiled Pope Martin I is deposed, and succeeded by Eugene I, as the 75th pope of the Roman Catholic Church. On September 17, Martin is taken to Constantinople and publicly humiliated, for having condemned the Byzantine Emperor Constans II in 649.source
  • 843Treaty of Verdun: The Frankish Empire is divided into three kingdoms, between the three surviving sons of the late emperor Louis the Pious. King Louis the German receives the eastern portion (everything east of the River Rhine), called the Eastern Frankish Realm, which is the precursor to modern-day Germany. Emperor Lothair I receives the central portion (Low Countries, Alsace, Lorraine, Burgundy and the northern half of Italy), called the Central Frankish Realm. King Charles the Bald receives the western portion (everything west of the River Rhône), called the Western Frankish Realm, which later becomes France.source
  • 955Battle of Lechfeld: King Otto I ("the Great") defeats the Hungarians (also known as Magyars) near Augsburg (Germany). Otto's army (7,000 men), mainly composed of heavy cavalry, overwhelms the Hungarians along the Lech River. The German losses are heavy, among them Conrad ("the Red") and many other nobles. The commanders of the Hungarian army, Bulcsú, Lehel and Súr, are captured and executed. This victory puts an end to the Hungarian campaigns into western Europe.source
  • 1030Romanos orders a retreat to Antioch. As the army is exhausted from the heat and the lack of supplies, the retreat soon turns into a flight in panic. Romanos returns to Constantinople in humiliation, but his generals on the eastern frontier manage to salvage the situation: a Fatimid attack on Maraclea is repulsed, and Azaz itself is captured in December after a brief siege. In April/May 1031, Emir Nasr of Aleppo agreed to vassal and tributary status with Byzantium.source
  • 1047Battle of Val-ès-Dunes: Norman duke William I secures control over Normandy with assistance from King Henry I of France by defeating rebel Norman barons at Caen. Later in October, William promulgates the "Truce of God" throughout his duchy.source
  • 1099The Crusaders under Godfrey of Bouillon (supported by 1,200–1,300 knights) assemble at Yibna (Ibelin) – close to the coast and almost halfway from Jaffa to Ascalon.source
  • 1109Battle of Nakło: Bolesław III leads an expedition into Pomerania. He besieges the castle of Nakło and defeats a Pomeranian relief force.source
  • 1223The Order of the Blessed Virgin Mary of Mercy, whose followers are called the Mercedarians, is legally constituted in Barcelona by King James I of Aragon. It will receive papal approval 12 years later.source
  • 1258Manfred, son of the late Emperor Frederick II, is crowned king of Sicily at Palermo. Pope Alexander IV, who has an alliance with the Saracens, declares the coronation void and excommunicates Manfred.source
  • 1270August 10 (10 Nehasé 1262) – Yekuno Amlak overthrows the Ethiopian Zagwe dynasty, claims the imperial throne and establishes the Solomonic Dynasty, which will last until 1974.source
  • 1316Second Battle of Athenry: Norman rule is retained during the Bruce campaign in Ireland, at the cost of over 5,000 dead.source
  • 1316Battle of Athenry; rebellious Irish chiefs of Connacht defeated and killed.source
  • 1329The battle of Ardnocher took place near Horseleap between the forces of Thomas Butler and William Mac Geoghegan. Mac Geoghegan forces won and Butler and many of his soldiers were killed.source
  • 1332August 10–11 – Battle of Dupplin Moor: Edward Balliol rebels, and the English defeat the loyalists of David II in Scotland.source
  • 1346Jaume Ferrer sets out from Mallorca for the "River of Gold", the Senegal River.source
  • 1382The Treaty of Elvas is signed between King Fernando of Portugal and King Juan of Castile to end the Third Fernandine War. Under the agreement, Portugal ends its alliance with England and joins Castile and France in the Hundred Years' War, and recognizes the jurisdiction of the antipope Clement VII over the Portuguese church. Castile returns all Portuguese prisoners of war and ships, and gives Almeida and Miranda back to Portugal. Finally, King Fernando's daughter Beatriz marries King Juan's son Ferdinand.source
  • 1418King Taejong, ruler of the kingdom of Joseon that encompasses most of Korea, agrees to abdicate his throne in order for his son Prince Yi Do to become the new monarch. Taejong then becomes the King Emeritus (Sangwang).source
  • 1486The Papal States, led by Pope Innocent VIII, sign a treaty with King Ferrante of Naples to avoid an invasion.source
  • 1487The County of Tyrol within the Holy Roman Empire defeats the attack of the Republic of Venice at the Battle of Calliano, with 1,400 of the Venetians and 700 of the Tyroleans killed.source
  • 1490The Scottish Admiral Sir Andrew Wood of Largo, commanding the warships Flower and Yellow Carrel, successfully repels an attempted ambush by three armed English merchant ships at the Firth of Forth. Wood captures the three ships, carries them up the Dundee river and presents them and their crews to King James IV. After a "an earnest remonstrance" to England's King Henry VII about allowing the Englishmen to attempt a battle, King James sets the prisoners free and returns them to England.source
  • 1500Diogo Dias discovers an island which he names São Lourenço, since August 10 is the feast day of Saint Lawrence, a Roman Catholic martyr of the 3rd century. The massive island is later known as Madagascar.source
  • 1507Afonso de Albuquerque departs with six ships from the Yemeni island of Socotra to begin pillaging towns along the way to conquering the Persian Gulf port of Hormuz.source
  • 1509Maximillian I of the Holy Roman Empire along with French allies begins a siege of Padua that would last for months to retake the city.source
  • 1510The Royal Dano-Norwegian Navy is founded when Henrich Krummedige is appointed chief captain of all those who are at sea.source
  • 1512War of the League of Cambrai – Battle of Saint-Mathieu: The English navy defeats the French-Breton fleet. Both navies use ships firing cannons through ports, and each loses its principal ship — Regent and Marie-la-Cordelière — through a large explosion aboard the latter.source
  • 1512The Battle of Saint-Mathieu, a naval battle between an English fleet of 25 ships and a Franco-Breton fleet of 22 ships.source
  • 1518Construction of the Manchester Grammar School is completed in England. The total cost of the project was £218 13s 5d.source
  • 1519The Magellan expedition departs from Seville in Spain.source
  • 1543Esztergom surrenders to the Ottomans led by Suleiman the Magnificent.source
  • 1557Battle of St. Quentinsource
  • 1566The Beeldenstorm, also called the "Iconoclastic Fury", begins as Protestant Calvinists engage in widespread destruction of religious art in what are now the Netherlands and Belgium.source
  • 1583The Livonian War is ended by the Treaty of Plussa.source
  • 1609The Spanish galleon San Francisco sinks in a storm off the coast of Japan, with the loss of 56 men. Clinging to floating wreckage, the survivors are able to reach Yubanda, near Onjuku in modern-day Chiba Prefecture.source
  • 1628The Swedish 64-gun sailing ship Vasa sinks 20 minutes into her maiden voyage, in Stockholm Harbor.source
  • 1628The Swedish warship Vasa sank on its maiden voyage in Stockholm harbor on August 10, 1628, after capsizing due to a gust of wind, causing about 30 deaths among 150 on board. Nearly 400 years later, DNA testing revealed that a person initially thought to be male, named "Gustav," was actually female. This discovery, and others, provide insights into 17th-century Sweden, according to Vasa Museum director Fred Hocker. The Vasa was salvaged between 1958 and 1961 and is now displayed at the Vasa Museum. DNA studies in 2004 identified 15 adults and remains of at least two others. Further genetic testing will reveal more about the Vasa's crew.source
  • 1637Edward King is drowned in the Irish Sea en route to visiting his family in Ireland, an event which inspires fellow poet Milton's elegy Lycidas.source
  • 1641Charles I of England signs the Treaty of London ending the Bishops' Wars between England and Scotland.source
  • 1641King Charles signs the Treaty of London ending the Bishops' Wars between England and Scotland.source
  • 1646The French and Swedish armies unite in Wetzlar for the Bavarian campaignsource
  • 1653The Battle of Scheveningen, the final naval battle of the First Anglo-Dutch War, ends after three days of fighting off the island of Texel, as the English Navy gains a tactical victory over the Dutch fleet.source
  • 1658As Swedish troops approach Copenhagen once again, the king, in a letter, promises that Copenhagen and Christianshavn will be free rigsstæder and heard on all matters of national importance, particularly those relating to customs and octroi.source
  • 1667The Siege of Lille, at this time part of the Spanish Netherlands (modern-day Belgium) begins and becomes the only major engagement of the "War of Devolution" between France and Spain. The Spanish Army surrenders after 16 days.source
  • 1675King Charles II of England places the foundation stone of the Royal Greenwich Observatory near London; construction begins.source
  • 1675King Charles places the foundation stone of the Royal Observatory, Greenwich near London.source
  • 1678The Treaties of Nijmegen end the Franco-Dutch War. The County of Burgundy is ceded to the Kingdom of France.source
  • 1680A Pueblo medicine man named Popé begins an attack by the Puebloans and their Apache allies on Spanish outposts throughout what is the modern-day U.S. state of New Mexico, choosing the campaign to begin before a supply caravan can reach the Spaniards.source
  • 1681English sea captain Robert Knox of the East India Company publishes his book An Historical Relation of the Island Ceylon, about his adventures, 20-years imprisonment and escape from Ceylon.source
  • 1695A naval skirmish occurs between English and Swedish ships in the Strait of Doversource
  • 1697The Siege of Barcelona ends in Spain after 52 days as Louis Joseph, Duke of Vendôme of France obtains the surrender of Barcelona from the Austrian General, Prince George of Hesse-Darmstadt.source
  • 1720The town of Moss was founded.source
  • 1738Russo-Turkish War (1735–1739): The Russian army begins its attempt to cross the Dniester River and fails after three weeks; it is later decimated by plague.source
  • 1741Raja Marthanda Varma of Travancore defeats the Dutch East India Company in the Battle of Colachel, ending the Dutch colonial rule in India and marking the first "major" defeat of a European colonial military power in India.source
  • 1755The Expulsion of the Acadians begins, with the Bay of Fundy Campaign.source
  • 1759Bordeaux earthquake.source
  • 1766During the occupation of New York, members of the 28th Foot Regiment of the British Army chop down the liberty pole that was erected by the Sons of Liberty on June 4. The Sons of Liberty put up a second pole the next day, and that pole is cut down on August 22.source
  • 1783The British East India Company packet ship Antelope (1781) is wrecked off Ulong Island in the Palau (Pelew) group, resulting in the first sustained European contact with those islands.source
  • 1787Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart composes his famous Eine kleine Nachtmusik.source
  • 1788Emperor Shah Alam II was blinded by a maddened Indo-Afghan commander Ghulam Qadir Rohilla who sought revenge against the Mughal Empire.source
  • 1788Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, in Vienna, completes his final symphony, the Symphony No. 41 in C Major, and nicknamed (after his death) The Jupiter.source
  • 1792French Revolution: Insurrection of 10 August 1792 – The Tuileries Palace is stormed and Louis XVI is arrested and taken into custody.source
  • 1792French Revolution: Insurrection of 10 August 1792 – The Tuileries Palace is stormed and Louis XVI is arrested and taken into custody.source
  • 1793French Revolution – Feast of Unitysource
  • 1796A mob of peasants overtakes the Convent of St. Peter (Bludenz, Austria) and murders Ignaz Anton von Indermauer.source
  • 1801With the Althing being disbanded by royal decree in the year prior, a new High Court in Reykjavík took over the functions of Lögrétta. The three appointed judges convened in Hólavallarskóli.source
  • 1808Finnish War: Swedish troops under Carl von Döbeln defeat a Russian attack in Kauhajoki.source
  • 1809Ecuador declares independence from Spain.source
  • 1813The Instituto Nacional General José Miguel Carrera, Chile's oldest school, is established.source
  • 1821Missouri is admitted as the 24th U.S. state.source
  • 1821Missouri is admitted as the 24th U.S. state (see History of Missouri).source
  • 1822August 5–13 – A sequence of earthquakes occurs in the northern part of the Ottoman Empire, causing severe damage from Gaziantep to Antakya in modern Turkey and from Aleppo to Khan Sheikhun in modern Syria. At least 20,000 people are killed.source
  • 1826The first Cowes Regatta is held on the Isle of Wight.source
  • 1826The first Cowes Regatta is held in the Isle of Wight, in the U.K.source
  • 1829Finsteraarhorn, the highest summit of the Bernese Alps, is first ascended.source
  • 1833major fire in stores of The Custom House, Dublin, sets River Liffey aflame.source
  • 1840Fortsas hoax: A number of book collectors gather in Binche, Belgium, to attend a non-existent book auction of the late "Count of Fortsas".source
  • 1840Culmination of the Fortsas hoax in Binche.source
  • 1842The Mines and Collieries Act 1842 in the United Kingdom makes it illegal for women and girls of any age, and boys under ten years, to work underground.source
  • 1842Mines and Collieries Act 1842 makes it illegal for women and girls of any age, and boys under ten years, to work underground, following the Children's Employment Commission (Mines) report produced in response to the 1838 Huskar Pit disaster (which resulted in the deaths by drowning of 26 children aged 7 to 17).source
  • 1844German astronomer Friedrich Bessel deduces from the motion of the bright stars Sirius and Procyon that they have dark companions.source
  • 1849Underground explosion at Lletty Shenkin colliery, Cwmbach, kills 52.source
  • 1854Merchant Shipping Act 1854 introduces official numbers for ships, revises calculations of tonnage, vests management of Scottish lighthouses in the Northern Lighthouse Board and provides for rewards to lifesavers leading to creation of the Sea Gallantry Medal.source
  • 1854Youthful Offenders Act limits prison sentences for under-16s and extends the system of reformatory schools for them.source
  • 1856The Last Island hurricane destroys Last Island, Louisiana, leaving 400 dead. The whole island is broken up into several smaller islands by the storm.source
  • 18561856 Last Island hurricane: A hurricane destroys Last Island, Louisiana, leaving at least 200 dead. The whole island is broken up into smaller islands by the storm.source
  • 1857John Bowen is consecrated as Bishop of Sierra Leone.source
  • 1861American Civil War: The first major battle west of the Mississippi River, the Battle of Wilson's Creek, is fought, with a Confederate victory.source
  • 1863The murder of Knut Grøte in Christiania.source
  • 1864An undeclared Uruguayan War begins, when Uruguay refuses an ultimatum from the Empire of Brazil.source
  • 1876The world's first long-distance phone call connects the Bell residence with a shoe and boot store in nearby Paris, Ontario.source
  • 1884An earthquake measuring 5.5 Mfa affects a very large portion of the eastern United States. The shock has a maximum Mercalli intensity of VII (Very strong). Chimneys are toppled in New York, New Jersey, Connecticut and Pennsylvania. Property damage is severe in Jamaica, Queens and Amityville, New York.source
  • 1884An earthquake measuring 5.5 Mfa (based on the felt area) affected a very large portion of the eastern United States. The shock had a maximum Mercalli intensity of VII (Very strong). Chimneys were toppled in New York, New Jersey, Connecticut, and Pennsylvania. Property damage was severe in Jamaica and Amityville in New York.source
  • 1885BHP, later to become the world's largest mining company, is registered as a company in Victoria.source
  • 1888Dr Friedrich Hermann Wölfert’s motorised airship successfully completes the world’s first engine-driven flight, from Cannstatt to Kornwestheim in Germany.source
  • 1889At the Vienna Hofburg, the grand opening ceremony is held for the Imperial Natural History Museum (K.k. Naturhistorisches Hofmuseum), begun in 1871; from August 13 to the end of December, the museum counts 175,000 visitors.source
  • 1893Preston, Lancashire, enters the United Kingdom weather records with the highest five-minute total rainfall of 32mm. As of August 2018, this record remains.source
  • 1895A Romanian-Serbian-Slovakian political alliance is formed to combat forced Magyarization in Austria-Hungary.source
  • 1895The first ever indoor promenade concert, origin of The Proms, is held at the Queen's Hall in London, opening a series conducted by Henry Wood.source
  • 1897Rudolf Diesel builds his first working prototype Diesel engine in Augsburg.source
  • 1897At the Bayer pharmaceutical company, pharmacist Felix Hoffmann successfully synthesizes acetylsalicylic acid, after isolating a compound from a plant of the Spiraea family; the company markets it under the brand name "Aspirin".source
  • 1899Marshall "Major" Taylor wins the world 1 mi professional cycling championship in Montreal, securing his place as the first African American world champion in any sport.source
  • 1901U.S. Steel recognition strike of 1901: Members of the Amalgamated Association of Iron, Steel, and Tin Workers begin a strike against United States Steel Corporation after failing to reach a settlement of their demands, and 14,000 employees walk off of the job.source
  • 1902Japanese general election: The result was a victory for the Rikken Seiyūkai party, which won 191 of the 376 seats. Voting remained restricted to men aged over 25 who paid at least 10 yen a year in direct taxation, although 1900 electoral reforms had reduced the figure from 15 yen, increasing the proportion of the population able to vote from 1% to 2%.source
  • 1903The Oseberg ship, a well-preserved Viking ship from the 9th century, was discovered in a large burial mound at the Oseberg farm near Tønsberg in the Vestfold county.source
  • 1903The Paris Métro train fire at Couronnes results in 84 deaths.source
  • 1903Paris Métro train fire kills 84 people mostly at Couronnes station.source
  • 1904Battle of the Yellow Seasource
  • 1907Prince Scipione Borghese and Ettore Guizardi, the prince's driver, win the Peking to Paris motor race with a 7-litre 35/45 hp Itala, accompanied by journalist Luigi Barzini, Sr.source
  • 1913Second Balkan War: The Treaty of Bucharest is signed, ending the war. Macedonia is divided, and Northern Epirus is assigned to Albania.source
  • 1920Ottoman Sultan Mehmed VI's representatives sign the Treaty of Sèvres with the Allied Powers, confirming arrangements for the partitioning of the Ottoman Empire.source
  • 1920The Princes Highway is officially opened.source
  • 1924August 9–17 – the 2nd World Scout Jamboree is held in Ermelunden, Denmark.source
  • 1927The Mount Rushmore Park is rededicated in the United States. President Calvin Coolidge promises national funding for the proposed carving of the presidential figures.source
  • 1928The ETA – Empresa de Transporte Aéreo airline is founded; it remains in operation for only a year.source
  • 1932A 5.1 kg chondrite-type meteorite breaks into fragments and strikes earth near the town of Archie, Missouri, United States.source
  • 1936The Icelandic Airline is founded.source
  • 1942August 3–15 – WWII: Operation Pedestal – A British convoy of 14 merchant ships with a massive escort of two battleships, 4 aircraft carriers, 7 cruisers, 32 destroyers and smaller ships commanded by Admiral Edward Neville Syfret, sets sail to Malta under relentless attacks by day and night from enemy submarines, aircraft and Axis surface forces. The 55,000 tons of food and fuel (particularly from oil tanker SS Ohio) delivered by this convoy saves Malta from surrender and allows Malta-based aircraft and submarines to resume their attacks against Rommel's supply lines, although over 500 British sea- and airmen are killed and many ships (including carrier HMS Eagle (1918)) are lost.source
  • 1945Tone Dahle, cross-country skier.source
  • 1948August 10–23 – The Herrenchiemsee convention prepares the draft for the Basic Law for the Federal Republic of Germany.source
  • 1949the Avro Canada C102 Jetliner makes its first flight; it is the first jet airliner to fly in North America.source
  • 19601960 Laotian coups: Kong Le's coupsource
  • 1961The first chemical defoliation operation in Vietnam was carried out as a Sikorsky H-34 helicopter sprayed the herbicide Dinoxol north of Kon Tum. Following the successful test, Operation Ranch Hand continued until October 23, 1971, destroying 7.7 e6acre of forests and jungles.source
  • 1966Lunar Orbiter 1, the first U.S. spacecraft to orbit the Moon, is launched.source
  • 1969A day after murdering Sharon Tate and four others, members of the Manson Family kill Leno and Rosemary LaBianca in Los Angeles.source
  • 1971Mr. Tickle, the first book in the Mr. Men series is first published, in the U.K.source
  • 19721972 Great Daylight Fireball: A brilliant meteor is seen in the western U.S. and Canada as an Apollo asteroid skips off the Earth's atmosphere.source
  • 1979Michael Jackson releases his breakthrough album Off the Wall. It sells 7 million copies in the United States alone, making it a 7× platinum album.source
  • 1980July 31–August 11: Hurricane Allen.source
  • 1990Egypt, Syria, and 10 other Arab states vote to send military forces to Saudi Arabia to discourage an invasion from Iraq.source
  • 1992P&TLuxembourg is created as a government-owned corporation.source
  • 1992The Ulster Defence Association is proscribed by the Government of the United Kingdom.source
  • 1997August 3–11 – Two of the three islands of the Union of the Comoros – Anjouan and Mohéli – attempt to revert to colonial rule by France. The plan fails when the French government of President Jacques Chirac refuses to recolonize them, resulting in the two islands being reintegrated into the Comoros over the next two years.source
  • 1998Voters in Nevis narrowly reject an independence referendum.source
  • 1998Military experts from Namibia, Zimbabwe, Zambia and Tanzania are due in Kinshasa later this week to investigate allegations of Rwandan and Ugandan troops being sent across the border.source
  • 1999The Atlantique incident occurs as an intruding Pakistan Navy plane is shot down in India, sparking tensions between the two nations, a month after the end of the Kargil War.source
  • 2004August 7–13 – Typhoon Rananim causes widespread destruction as it strikes China.source
  • 2005A Sikorsky S-76 helicopter of the Finnish company Copterline has crashed into the Gulf of Finland near Estonia's capital Tallinn with 14 on board; eight Finns, four Estonians and two Americans. There are no survivors.source
  • 2006News was revealed of a thwarted terrorist plot to detonate liquid explosives disguised as soft drinks, aboard multiple transatlantic air flights.source
  • 2007The UEFA Executive Committee decided to cancel the UEFA Euro 2008 qualifying matches between Armenia and Azerbaijan in Group A, after the proposal to play them on neutral ground was rejected by the federations of the two countries.source
  • 2010The World Health Organization declares the H1N1 influenza pandemic over, saying worldwide flu activity has returned to typical seasonal patterns.source
  • 2010The Niger River bursts its banks forcing 5,000 people to lose their homes and crops.source
  • 2013August 10 – 17 – Kazakhstan competed at the 2013 World Championships in Athletics in Moscow, Russia. A team of 17 athletes represented the country in the event.source
  • 2018Protests against the government of Romania, prime-minister Viorica Dăncilă and PSD leader and corrupt businessman Liviu Dragnea take place in Bucharest, Cluj-Napoca and other major Romanian cities. In Bucharest, the protests take a violent shape and, in the course of a few hours, over 400 people are injured, including civilians not taking part in the protests and police units, and more than a thousand people suffer effects from tear gas and hand grenades thrown by the Romanian Jandarmerie units deployed and backed by the PSD-ruled government.source
  • 2018August 10–20 – Heavy rainfall causes severe floods in the Indian state of Kerala. It is the worst flood to hit the state in a century.source
  • 2019August 10–25 – 2019 Canary Islands wildfires: A number of forest fires break out in the Canary Islands of Gran Canaria, Tenerife and Lanzarote. The fires on the island of Gran Canaria were the most severe, resulting in the loss of large areas of the island's forests and leading to the evacuation of thousands of residents from a number of towns and villages.source
  • 2019Morogoro tanker explosion: A fuel tanker truck explodes in Morogoro, Tanzania, killing at least 89 people and injuring dozens more.source
  • 2019Morogoro tanker explosionsource
  • 2020The 2020 Trinidad and Tobago general election is held to elect all 41 members of the House of Representatives of Trinidad and Tobago, the lower house of the bicameral Parliament of Trinidad and Tobago and the People's National Movement party, led by prime minister Keith Rowley won 22 out of 41 seats.source
  • 2020The 2020 Trinidad and Tobago general election was held to elect 41 members to the 12th Trinidad and Tobago Republican Parliament.source
  • 2022August 9 – August 18: Guyana at the 2021 Islamic Solidarity Gamessource
  • 2022Spanish club Real Madrid beat German club Eintracht Frankfurt 2–0 to win the 2022 UEFA Super Cup played at the Olympic Stadium in Helsinki, Finland.source
  • 2023Tapestry, the holding company of Coach New York and Kate Spade, announces it will acquire Michael Kors' Capri Holdings, which also owns Versace and Jimmy Choo.source
  • 2025August 7–17 – The 2025 World Games are held in Chengdu, China.source

Births

  • 1267King James II of Aragon (died 1327)source
  • 1296"Blind" King John I of Bohemia (died 1346)source
  • 1360Francesco Zabarella, Italian jurist (died 1417)source
  • 1397Albert II of Germany, Holy Roman Emperor (died 1439)source
  • 1424August 10 or 1426 – Boniface III, Marquess of Montferrat (died 1494)source
  • 1439Anne of York, Duchess of Exeter, Duchess of York, second child of Richard Plantagenet (died 1476)source
  • 1449Bona of Savoy, Duchess of Savoy (died 1503)source
  • 1466Francesco II Gonzaga, Marquess of Mantua (died 1519)source
  • 1489Jacob Sturm von Sturmeck, German statesman and reformer (died 1553)source
  • 1491Queen Janggyeong, Korean royal consort (died 1515)source
  • 1520Madeleine of Valois, queen of James V of Scotland (died 1537)source
  • 1520Madeleine of Valois, third daughter of King Francis I and Queen of Scotland (d.1537)source
  • 1528Eric II, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg (died 1584)source
  • 1547Francis II, Duke of Saxe-Lauenburg (died 1619)source
  • 1617Richard Ingoldsby, English politician (died 1685)source
  • 1645Eusebio Kino, Italian Catholic missionary (died 1711)source
  • 1673Johann Konrad Dippel, German alchemist (died 1734)source
  • 1694John Leveson-Gower, 1st Earl Gower, British politician (died 1754)source
  • 1695Samuel Sandys, 1st Baron Sandys, British politician (died 1770)source
  • 1709Jean-Jacques Lefranc, Marquis de Pompignan, French man of letters and erudition (died 1784)source
  • 1729William Howe, 5th Viscount Howe, British general (died 1814)source
  • 1729William Howe, 5th Viscount Howe, general (passed 1814)source
  • 1734Naungdawgyi, Burmese king (died 1763)source
  • 1782Vicente Guerrero, 2nd President of Mexico (died 1831)source
  • 1782Charles James Napier, Governor of Sindh, Commander-in-Chief in British India (died 1853)source
  • 1810Camillo Benso, Count of Cavour, 1st Prime Minister of Italy (died 1861)source
  • 1861Rafael Valentín Errázuriz (died 1923)source
  • 1874Herbert Hoover, 31st President of the United States (died 1964)source
  • 1947Anwar Ibrahim, 10th Prime Minister of Malaysiasource
  • 1981Shadi Hamsho, professional boxersource
  • 1995Saïd Benrahma, footballersource

Deaths

  • 794Fastrada, Frankish queen consort (born 765)source
  • 794Queen Fastrada, third wife of Charlemagne, dies in Frankfurt after 11 years of marriage. Charlemagne consoles himself with Luitgard, an Alemannian noblewoman, whom he marries and moves into his new palace at Aachen (Germany). Luitgard shares Charlemagne's interest in the liberal arts.source
  • 796Eanbald, archbishop of Yorksource
  • 847Abbasid Caliph Al-Wathiq dies of dropsy after a five-year reign. He is succeeded by his brother al-Mutawakkil.source
  • 847Al-Wathiq, Muslim caliph (born 816)source
  • 955Conrad ("the Red"), duke of Lorrainesource
  • 1025Burchard of Worms, German bishop and writersource
  • 1051Drogo of Hauteville, Norman nobleman, assassinatedsource
  • 1128Fujiwara no Kiyohira, Japanese samurai (born 1056)source
  • 1163Dahui Zonggao, Chinese Zen Buddhist monk (born 1089)source
  • 1184Abu Yusuf Yaqub al-Mansur is proclaimed the new caliph of the Almohad Caliphate, after his father Abu Yaqub Yusuf is killed in Portugal.source
  • 1202Ulrich II, German nobleman and knightsource
  • 1241Eleanor, Fair Maid of Brittany (born c. 1184), princess long gently imprisoned in Englandsource
  • 1250Eric IV (Ploughpenny), king of Denmarksource
  • 1284Tekuder, Mongol ruler of the Ilkhanate (born 1246)source
  • 1309Giovanni Boccamazza, Italian cardinal and archbishopsource
  • 1410Louis II, Duke of Bourbon (born 1337)source
  • 1410Louis II, Duke of Bourbon (born 1337)source
  • 1530Konstanty Ostrogski, Grand Hetman of Lithuania (born 1460)source
  • 1535Ippolito de' Medici, ruler of Florence (poisoned) (born 1509)source
  • 1536Francis III of Brittany, Dauphin of France, dies having caught a chill after a game of tennis which had developed into a fever; under torture Sebastiano de Montecuccoli, his Italian secretary, confesses to poisoning him and is brutally executed on October 7. Francis' younger brother, Henry, Duke of Orléans, succeeds as heir to the kingdom.source
  • 1564Miyoshi Nagayoshi, Japanese samurai and daimyō (born 1522)source
  • 1633Anthony Munday, English writer (born 1553)source
  • 1653Maarten Tromp, Dutch admiral (born 1598)source
  • 1659Eleonora Ramirez di Montalvo, Italian educator (born 1602)source
  • 1659Frederick III, Duke of Holstein-Gottorp (born 1597)source
  • 1670Richard Ottley, English politician (born 1626)source
  • 1717Nicolaes Witsen, Mayor of Amsterdam, Netherlands (born 1641)source
  • 1723Philippe II, Duke of Orléans, who had served as the Regent of France to rule for King Louis XV from 1715 until the latter's attainment of majority on February 15, is appointed by the King to serve as his Prime Minister, but dies in office less than four months later.source
  • 1730Sébastien de Brossard, French composer and music theorist (born 1655)source
  • 1759King Ferdinand VI of Spain (born 1713)source
  • 1784Allan Ramsay, Scottish portrait-painter (born 1713)source
  • 1930May Crommelin, novelist and travel writer (born 1849/1850).source
  • 2019Jeffrey Epstein, 66, American financier (Bear Stearns), philanthropist (Jeffrey Epstein VI Foundation) and convicted sex offender, suicide by hanging.source
  • 201932 are killed and 1,000,000 evacuated as Typhoon Lekima makes landfall in Zhejiang, China. Earlier it had caused flooding in the Philippines.source
  • 2025A one-month-old infant dies after being subjected to female genital mutilation in Wellingara, resulting in two arrests.source