What happened on 10 July?

14 events from the Ever-When timeline, ranked by how much they mattered.

1. 1940 Battle of Britain RAF defeats Luftwaffe air campaign; thwarts a planned German invasion of Britain.
2. 1991 Presidency of Boris Yeltsin Shock therapy, the shelling of parliament, the loans-for-shares oligarchy and the first Chechen war.
3. 1871 Born: Marcel Proust Novelist; author of In Search of Lost Time, central work of modernist prose.
4. 1509 Born: John Calvin French theologian whose Geneva became the model city of Reformed Protestantism.
5. 1940 Vichy France Pétain's collaborationist regime governs unoccupied France from Vichy.
6. 1856 Born: Nikola Tesla Serbian-American inventor of AC induction motor and polyphase distribution systems.
7. 1584 Assassination of William the Silent Balthasar Gérard shoots William the Silent on his staircase in Delft for Philip II's bounty; the republic fights on without its founder.
8. 1925 Scopes Trial Tennessee teacher tried for teaching evolution.
9. 1985 Rainbow Warrior bombing French intelligence agents sink the Greenpeace flagship in Auckland harbour.
10. 1962 Telstar: first communications satellite Telstar relays the first live transatlantic television, inaugurating the age of global satellite communication.
11. 138 Reign of Antoninus Pius Quiet, prosperous 23-year reign at the empire's apogee; namesake of the Antonine dynasty.
12. 1951 Armistice talks open at Kaesong With the front stabilised near the 38th parallel, both sides sit down to negotiate — and keep negotiating for two years while men die over hills named Heartbreak and Pork Chop. The
13. 1553 Reign of Lady Jane Grey Nine-day queen displaced by Mary I; later executed at the Tower.
14. 2016 Ronaldo's Portugal win Euro 2016 Ronaldo limps off injured in the final and coaches from the touchline as Portugal beat France for their first major trophy.