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What happened on 10 August?
9 events from the Ever-When timeline, ranked by how much they mattered.
1511
Portuguese capture Malacca
Afonso de Albuquerque seizes the strategic spice-trade hub for Portugal.
1788
Mozart's Symphony No. 41 (Jupiter)
Mozart's last and grandest symphony.
1920
Treaty of Sèvres
WWI peace treaty partitions Ottoman empire; rejected by Turkish nationalists under Mustafa Kemal; superseded by Lausanne 1923.
1792
Storming of the Tuileries
Sans-culottes and provincial fédérés storm the royal palace; Swiss Guards slaughtered; monarchy effectively over.
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.
1842
Mines and Collieries Act 1842
Bans women and children under 10 from underground work in British mines; response to the 1842 Mines Commission's grim findings.
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
955
Battle of Lechfeld
Otto I crushes Magyar invaders near Augsburg; ends nomadic raids on Germany and consolidates Ottonian power.
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
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