August 10
The 10th of August is the 222nd day of the Gregorian Calendar ( 223rd in leap years), thus still 143 days remain until the end of the year.
- 2.1 Before the 18th century
- 2.2 18th century
- 2.3 19th century
- 2.4 20th century 2.4.1 1901-1950
- 2.4.2 1951-2000
- 3.1 Before the 19th century
- 3.2 19th century
- 3.3 20th century
- 3.4 21st century
Events
Politics and World Affairs
- 0612 BC: Nineveh, the last capital of Assyria, was destroyed by the Medes and Babylonians.
- 2003: The cosmonaut Yuri Ivanovich Malenchenko, located at that time on the space station ISS, marries his bride Ekaterina.
- 2011: The first Chinese aircraft carrier, the former Varyag is running out for its first test drive.
Economy
Science and Technology
Culture
Society
Religion
- 0654: Eugene I. is elected pope, though his predecessor Martin I was still alive.
- 1906: The letter sent to the French Bishops' Conference encyclical Gravissimo officii munere Pope Pius X rejects the worship of membership associations and cult associations, as it allows the French State, the Church strongly from.
Disasters
Minor accidents are listed in the sub- items of disaster.
Sports
Entries of Athletics world records are located under the respective discipline under Athletics.
Born
Before the 18th century
Caspar Olevian (* 1536)
Philipp Nicolai (* 1556 )
Raban of Canstein (* 1617)
Susanna Maria von Sandrart (* 1658)
18th century
Friedrich Joseph Haass (* 1780)
Charles James Napier (* 1782 )
Johann C. Hundeshagen (* 1783)
Leopold Zunz (* 1794)
19th century
Camillo Benso, Count of Cavour (* 1810)
Henri Nestlé (* 1814)
Antônio Gonçalves Dias (* 1823)
Aino Sibelius (* 1871)
Herbert Hoover (* 1874)
Alfred Doblin (* 1878)
Zofia Kossak - Szczucka (* 1889)
20th century
1901-1950
1951-2000
Died
Before the 19th century
- 0612 BC: Sin Template Risch -kun, the Assyrian king
- 0258: Lawrence of Rome, Roman deacon, Christian martyr
- 0353: Magnentius, Roman Gegenkaiser
- 0725: Plectrude, Austrasian nobles and saints
- 0847: al- Wathiq bi- ' llāh, Abbasid Caliph
- 0955: Conrad the Red, Duke of Lorraine and Count in Speyergau, Wormsgau and Nahegau
- 1051: Drogo of Hauteville, count of Apulia
- 1153: Eustace IV, Count of Boulogne
- 1202: Ulrich II, Duke of Carinthia
- 1250: Erik IV, King of Denmark
- 1346: Philippe Monsieur, Count of Auvergne and the County of Boulogne
- 1432: Hans von Burghausen, German architect
- 1517: Aymon de Mont Falcon, Bishop of Lausanne
- 1530: Konstanty Ostrogski, Ruthenian Knjas and Great Hetman of Lithuania
- 1589: Martin Schenk of Nideggen, Dutch military commander in various services
- 1590: Christina of Denmark, Danish princess
- 1599: Johann Münch, German legal scholar
- 1628: David Kollenberger, mayor of Heilbronn
- 1645: Jürgen Pavel, Lübeck councilor
- 1653: Maarten Tromp, Dutch admiral
- 1659: . Friedrich III, Duke of Schleswig -Holstein - Gottorp
- 1668: Johann Erich Ostermann, German Hellenist
- 1680: Jacob Tappe, German physician and professor of medicine at the University of Helmstedt
19th century
20th century
21st Century
- 2001: Lou Boudreau, American baseball player and manager
- 2001: Werner Pirchner, Austrian composer
- 2001: Otto Schulmeister, Austrian journalist, editor and publisher
- 2002: Kristen Nygaard, Norwegian mathematician, pioneer of programming languages
- 2003: Jacques Deray, French film director
- 2005: Jaroslav Koutecký, Czech Professor of Physical Chemistry
- 2005: Ilya Prachař, Czech actor
- 2006: Irving São Paulo, Brazilian actor
- 2006: Yasuo Takei, Japanese banker
- 2007: Tony Wilson, British music manager, night club owner and television journalist
- 2008: Isaac Hayes, American soul musician, composer and actor
- 2009: Josef Burg, Austrian writer
- 2010: Erwin Frühbauer, Austrian Minister of Transport
- 2010: Antonio Pettigrew, American track and field athlete
- 2010: Al Freeman Jr., American actor and director
- 2010: Carlo Rambaldi, Italian artist
- 2013: László Csatáry, Hungarian Nazi war criminals
Holidays and observances
- Religious observances St. Lawrence of Rome, deacon, martyr and patron saint ( Anglican, Protestant, Catholic, Orthodox )
- Anniversary of the destruction of Jerusalem ( Protestant)
- Name Days Astrid (only in Germany ), Lorenz
- State Holidays and observances Ecuador, the beginning of independence from Spain (1808 )
More entries contains the list of commemorative and action days.
- Day
- Day in August