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What happened on 10 August?

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

  1. 1511 Portuguese capture Malacca Afonso de Albuquerque seizes the strategic spice-trade hub for Portugal.
  2. 1788 Mozart's Symphony No. 41 (Jupiter) Mozart's last and grandest symphony.
  3. 1920 Treaty of Sèvres WWI peace treaty partitions Ottoman empire; rejected by Turkish nationalists under Mustafa Kemal; superseded by Lausanne 1923.
  4. 1792 Storming of the Tuileries Sans-culottes and provincial fédérés storm the royal palace; Swiss Guards slaughtered; monarchy effectively over.
  5. 1680 Pueblo Revolt of 1680 Coordinated Pueblo uprising under Popé drives Spanish out of present-day New Mexico for 12 years; rare successful indigenous reconquest.
  6. 1842 Mines and Collieries Act 1842 Bans all women and girls, and boys under 10, from underground work in British mines; a response to the 1842 Mines Commission's findings.
  7. 1787 Mozart's Eine kleine Nachtmusik A serenade for strings finished in the summer of Don Giovanni; unpublished in his lifetime, now among the best-known pieces of classical music.
  8. 1914 The Goeben escapes to Constantinople Two German warships outrun the Royal Navy across the Mediterranean and steam up the Dardanelles, where Germany 'sells' them to neutral Turkey — crews, fezzes and all. The gift tilt
  9. 955 Battle of Lechfeld Otto I crushes Magyar invaders near Augsburg; ends nomadic raids on Germany and consolidates Ottonian power.
  10. 1539 Ordinance of Villers-Cotterêts Francis I orders that all legal and administrative acts be written in French rather than Latin, and that parishes keep registers of baptisms.
  11. 1628 Sinking of the Vasa Sweden's magnificent new flagship heels over and sinks 1,300 metres into her maiden voyage, in full view of Stockholm; raised in 1961, she is now the world's best-preserved 17th-ce
  12. 1999 How to Rob (50 Cent) Mock-robbery tale of industry stars that made 50 Cent notorious.
  13. 1895 The Proms founded Impresario Robert Newman and a young conductor named Henry Wood open a season of cheap 'promenade' concerts at the Queen's Hall, letting anyone stand for a shilling and hear an orc
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