The August 10th is the 222e Jour of the Année (223e in the event of Leap year) of the Gregorian Calendrier.

Events

1 to 1900

  • 955 : The Germanic Roman Emperor Otton Large the demolishes the Magyars (Hungarian) with the Bataille of Lechfeld.

  • 1498 : Beginning of the lawsuit for the dissolution of the marriage of Louis XII with Jeanne de France.
  • 1539 : Ordinance of Villers-Cotterêts which imposes French in the notarial acts.
  • 1557 : Battle of Saint-Quentin.
  • 1566 : Riots iconoclasts of the Protestant to the Netherlands.
  • 1627 : beginning of the seat of La Rochelle.
  • 1792 :
    • Constitution of the common insurrectionary to Paris.
    • Taken Tileries.
    • Massacre of the Swiss guards in Paris
    • Arrest of Louis XVI.
  • 1809 : The Ecuador obtains its independence.
  • 1813 : The Austria declares the war in France of Napoleon.
  • 1842 : Lord Ashley makes prohibit the work of the women and children of less than ten years at the bottom of the mines of the the United Kingdom.
  • 1866 : The Bolivia and the Chile sign a treaty granting the territory located between the Andes and the Pacific to the Chilean ones.
  • 1897 : Felix Hoffmann, chemist for the German firm Bayer, synthesizes the Acetylsalicylic acid , the active element of the Aspirine.

XXe century

  • 1903 : a fire in the Line 2 of the Parisian subway, at the station Crowns, causes 84 dead by Asphyxie.

  • 1904 : The fleet Japan ease destroys the Russian fleet in front of Port-Arthur.
  • 1905 : First congress esperantist bringing together 800 practitioners of Esperanto.
  • 1913 : Peace, putting an end to the War of Balkans, is signed with Bucharest.
  • 1914 : The France declares the war with the Austria-Hungary.
  • 1927 : Beginning of the construction of a monument dedicated to the first US presidents on cliff of the Mount Rushmore.
  • 1945 : Capitulation of the Japan.
  • 1960 : The the Antarctic becomes international territory and scientific reserve.
  • 1987 : Aviation Libya does not bombard the oasis of Faya-Largeau (Chad).
  • 1990 :
    • At the time of the extraordinary summit of the the Arab League joined together with the Cairo, a narrow majority condemns the aggression of the Kuwait by the Iraq, underlining the division of the Arab world. The top decides the sending of a force panarabe (troops Syria, Egyptian and Morocco groins) to protect the Saudi Arabia.
    • a train runs off the line and fall into a river from the Mexico: 140 dead.
  • 1994 : Arrival in Sweden of Taslima Nasreen, condemned to died for Blasphemy by the integrist Moslem S of the Bangladesh
  • 1995:
    • the government Juppe makes pass VAT from 18,6% to 20,6%.
    • the Jordan grants asylum to two of the girls of the Iraqi president Saddam Hussein and to their husbands, of which Hussein Kamel el-Madjid, Minister of Industry and chief of the program of armament of the country.
  • 1996 : Approval of the Flag of HongKong by the preparatory committee.

XXIe century

  • 2001 :

    • the woman Nigeria Amina Abdullahi, is condemned according to the rules of the charia to 100 blows of stick for sexual relationships out-marriage.
    • a ambush carried out by the rebels of UNITA in Angola against a train transporting approximately 500 refugees makes 252 dead, of which children and elderly.
    • Of the floods makes at least 114 dead in the North-East of the Iran.
  • 2003 : End of the gathering Altermondialiste of 300.000 people on the plate of the Larzac, the 8 at August 10th.
  • 2005 : Judgment of the regulating Doctor of SAMU for the death of the father of a 10 year old child.
  • 2006 : The Palate Skoda, a building of style Art déco built, with the turning of the Twenties and Thirties of, by the architect Pavel Janák to shelter the head office of the automobile factories Skoda, becomes the new town hall of Prague.

Births

Death

Celebrations

First names

Laurent, Laure, Laurence, Laura,

Catholic and orthodoxe saints of the day

  • Laurent of Rome (+ 258), deacon martyr. patron saint of the Librarian S and the Cook S
  • Sixth II (+ 258), pope of Rome, martyr.

Orthodoxe saints of the day

  • Laurent de Kalouga (+ 1515), fol as a Christ.

See too

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