What happened on 10 October?

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

1. 1911 Xinhai Revolution Republican revolution ends the Qing dynasty and 2,000 years of imperial rule; Sun Yat-sen becomes first president of the Republic.
2. 680 Battle of Karbala Husayn ibn Ali, grandson of Muhammad, killed by Umayyad forces in Iraq; central event in Shia identity and mourning.
3. 732 Battle of Tours Charles Martel halts the Umayyad advance into Frankish lands; Carolingian power rises on the back of victory.
4. 1928 Chiang Kai-shek's rule of Nationalist China Leader of the Kuomintang state through the Northern Expedition, the Japanese war and defeat by the Communists, then of Taiwan until his death.
5. 1903 Suffragette movement intensifies British suffragette movement under Emmeline Pankhurst's WSPU adopted militant tactics — hunger strikes, arson, vandalism — to demand women's suffrage.
6. 1903 WSPU founded Emmeline Pankhurst founds the Women's Social and Political Union in Manchester, launching the militant suffragette campaign for women's votes.
7. 1972 Woodward and Bernstein follow the money Two young Washington Post reporters, fed by a source they call Deep Throat, tie the burglary to a massive campaign of political spying and sabotage run from the White House. For mo
8. 1964 Tokyo 1964 Olympics First Olympics held in Asia; showcase of post-war recovery; introduces the Shinkansen bullet train.
9. 1961 Catch-22 Joseph Heller's satirical war novel that coined a famous phrase.
10. 1813 Born: Giuseppe Verdi The composer whose operas became the soundtrack of the Risorgimento — 'Viva Verdi' doubled as a nationalist slogan.
11. 1911 Wuchang Uprising A military mutiny in Wuchang sparks the revolution that topples the Qing dynasty.