March 10 facts for kids

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March 10 is a day filled with many interesting events throughout history, from ancient battles to modern discoveries and important moments for different countries and people. Many famous individuals were also born or passed away on this day.

Historic Events on March 10
Notable Births on March 10
Notable Deaths on March 10
Holidays and Observances
See also

Historic Events on March 10

Early History (Before 1600)

241 BC – During the First Punic War, the Romans won a big sea battle against the Carthaginian fleet. This victory ended the war.
298 – The Roman Emperor Maximian finished his military campaign in North Africa. He celebrated his success with a grand entry into Carthage.
947 – The Later Han dynasty was started by Liu Zhiyuan, who declared himself emperor.
1496 – After helping to establish the city of Santo Domingo, Christopher Columbus sailed back to Spain, leaving his brother in charge.
1535 – On his way to Peru, a Spanish friar named Tomás de Berlanga accidentally discovered the amazing Galápagos Islands.

Important Moments (1601–1900)

1607 – Susenyos I became the Emperor of Ethiopia after defeating the armies of Yaqob and Abuna Petros II in the Battle of Gol.
1629 – King Charles I of England closed down the Parliament of England. This started a period of eleven years where he ruled without Parliament, known as the Personal Rule.
1661 – The French "Sun King," Louis XIV, began his personal rule of France after his chief minister, Cardinal Mazarin, passed away.
1735 – An agreement was signed between Nader Shah and Russia near Ganja, Azerbaijan, leading to Russian troops leaving the areas they had occupied.
1814 – Emperor Napoleon I faced defeat at the Battle of Laon in France.
1830 – The Royal Netherlands East Indies Army was officially created.
1831 – The French Foreign Legion was formed by Louis Philippe, the King of France. It was made up of foreign soldiers.
1848 – The United States Senate approved the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo. This treaty officially ended the Mexican–American War.
1861 – El Hadj Umar Tall took control of the city of Ségou, which led to the end of the Bamana Empire in Mali.
1873 – The first play from Azerbaijan, The Adventures of the Vizier of the Khan of Lenkaran, was performed. It was written by Akhundov.
1876 – The first successful test of a telephone was made by Alexander Graham Bell.
1891 – Almon Strowger received a patent for the Strowger switch. This invention helped automate telephone calls.

Modern Era (1901–Present)

1906 – The Courrières mine disaster happened in northern France. It was Europe's worst mining accident, killing 1099 miners.
1909 – Thailand gave up its control over the Malay states of Kedah, Kelantan, Perlis, and Terengganu by signing the Anglo-Siamese Treaty of 1909. These states then became British protectorates.
1922 – Mahatma Gandhi was arrested in India for speaking out against the government. He was sentenced to six years in prison but was released early for an operation.
1933 – The 1933 Long Beach earthquake shook the Greater Los Angeles Area, causing about 108 deaths.
1945 – During World War II, the U.S. Army Air Force used firebombs on Tokyo. This caused a massive fire that killed over 100,000 people, mostly civilians.
1952 – Fulgencio Batista led a successful takeover of the government in Cuba.
1959 – During the 1959 Tibetan uprising, thousands of Tibetans surrounded the Dalai Lama's palace. They were trying to protect him from being taken by China.
1969 – In Memphis, Tennessee, James Earl Ray admitted to assassinating Martin Luther King Jr.. He later tried to change his plea.
1971 – John Gorton stepped down as Prime Minister of Australia after a vote of no confidence. William McMahon took his place.
1975 – During the Vietnam War, North Vietnamese troops attacked Ban Mê Thuột as part of their final push to capture Saigon and win the war.
1977 – Astronomers made an exciting discovery: they found the rings of Uranus.
1979 – About 15,000 Iranian women and girls held a three-hour sit-in protest at the Courthouse of Tehran to mark International Women's Day.
1982 – All nine planets known at the time, from Mercury to Pluto, lined up on the same side of the Sun. This is called a syzygy.
1990 – In Haiti, Prosper Avril was removed from power, about 18 months after he took control in a coup.
2000 – The Dot-com bubble reached its highest point, with the NASDAQ Composite stock market index hitting 5,048.62.
2006 – The Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter spacecraft successfully arrived at Mars.
2017 – The Constitutional Court of South Korea confirmed the impeachment of President Park Geun-hye due to a major political scandal. This ended her presidency.
2019 – Ethiopian Airlines Flight 302, a Boeing 737 MAX, crashed shortly after takeoff, killing all 157 people on board. This tragic event, along with an earlier crash, led to all 387 Boeing 737 MAX aircraft being grounded worldwide.
2022 – The National Assembly of Hungary elected Katalin Novák as president of Hungary. She became the first female president in the country's history.
2023 – Silicon Valley Bank collapsed due to a bank run, making it the second-largest bank failure in US history. The FDIC took over its operations.
2024 – Elections were held in Portugal for all 230 seats in the Assembly of the Republic. The Partido Socialista lost its majority.

Notable Births on March 10

Born Before 1600

1452 – Ferdinand II, who became king of Castile and León. (d. 1516)
1503 – Ferdinand I, Holy Roman Emperor. (d. 1564)
1536 – Thomas Howard, 4th Duke of Norfolk, an English politician. (d. 1572)
1596 – Princess Maria Elizabeth of Sweden, daughter of King Charles IX of Sweden. (d. 1618)

Born Between 1601 and 1900

1604 – Johann Rudolf Glauber, a German-Dutch alchemist and chemist. (d. 1670)
1628 – François Girardon, a French sculptor. (d. 1715)
1628 – Marcello Malpighi, an Italian physician and biologist. (d. 1694)
1653 – John Benbow, an admiral in the Royal Navy. (d. 1702)
1656 – Giacomo Serpotta, an Italian Rococo sculptor. (d. 1732)
1709 – Georg Wilhelm Steller, a German botanist, zoologist, and explorer. (d. 1746)
1749 – Lorenzo Da Ponte, an Italian-American priest and poet. (d. 1838)
1769 – Joseph Williamson, an English businessman and philanthropist. (d. 1840)
1772 – Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel, a German poet and critic. (d. 1829)
1777 – Louis Hersent, a French painter. (d. 1860)
1787 – Francisco de Paula Martínez de la Rosa y Berdejo, a Spanish playwright and politician who became Prime Minister of Spain. (d. 1862)
1787 – William Etty, an English painter. (d. 1849)
1788 – Joseph Freiherr von Eichendorff, a German author and poet. (d. 1857)
1788 – Edward Hodges Baily, an English sculptor. (d. 1867)
1789 – Manuel de la Peña y Peña, a Mexican lawyer and the 20th President. (d. 1850)
1795 – Joseph Légaré, a Canadian painter and political figure. (d. 1855)
1810 – Samuel Ferguson, an Irish poet and lawyer. (d. 1886)
1843 – Evelyn Abbott, an English classical scholar. (d. 1901)
1844 – Pablo de Sarasate, a Spanish violinist and composer. (d. 1908)
1844 – Marie Euphrosyne Spartali, a British Pre-Raphaelite painter. (d. 1927)
1845 – Alexander III of Russia. (d. 1894)
1846 – Edward Baker Lincoln, son of Abraham Lincoln. (d. 1850)
1849 – Hallie Quinn Brown, an African-American educator and activist. (d. 1949)
1850 – Spencer Gore, an English tennis player and cricketer. (d. 1906)
1853 – Thomas Mackenzie, a Scottish-New Zealand politician who became the 18th Prime Minister of New Zealand. (d. 1930)
1867 – Hector Guimard, a French-American architect. (d. 1942)
1867 – Lillian Wald, an American nurse and humanitarian who founded the Henry Street Settlement. (d. 1940)
1870 – David Riazanov, a Russian theorist and politician. (d. 1938)
1873 – Jakob Wassermann, a German-Austrian author. (d. 1934)
1876 – Anna Hyatt Huntington, an American sculptor. (d. 1973)
1877 – Pascual Ortiz Rubio, a Mexican diplomat and president. (d. 1963)
1881 – Jessie Boswell, an English painter. (d. 1956)
1888 – Barry Fitzgerald, an Irish actor. (d. 1961)
1890 – Albert Ogilvie, an Australian politician and the 28th Premier of Tasmania. (d. 1939)
1892 – Arthur Honegger, a French composer. (d. 1955)
1892 – Gregory La Cava, an American director and screenwriter. (d. 1952)
1896 – Frederick Coulton Waugh, a British cartoonist and painter. (d. 1973)
1900 – Violet Brown, a Jamaican supercentenarian, the oldest Jamaican ever. (d. 2017)
1900 – Pandelis Pouliopoulos, a Greek lawyer and politician. (d. 1943)

Born After 1900

1901 – Michel Seuphor, a Belgian painter. (d. 1999)
1903 – Edward Bawden, an English artist and illustrator. (d. 1989)
1903 – Bix Beiderbecke, an American cornet player and composer. (d. 1931)
1903 – Clare Boothe Luce, an American playwright, journalist, and diplomat. (d. 1987)
1915 – Harry Bertoia, an Italian-American sculptor and furniture designer. (d. 1978)
1915 – Joža Horvat, a Croatian writer. (d. 2012)
1917 – David Hare, an American Surrealist artist and sculptor. (d. 1992)
1918 – Günther Rall, a German general and pilot. (d. 2009)
1919 – Leonor Oyarzún, the First Lady of Chile from 1990 to 1994. (d. 2022)
1920 – Alfred Peet, a Dutch-American businessman who founded Peet's Coffee & Tea. (d. 2007)
1923 – Val Logsdon Fitch, an American physicist and Nobel Prize laureate. (d. 2015)
1924 – Judith Jones, an American literary and cookbook editor. (d. 2017)
1925 – Bob Lanier, an American lawyer and Mayor of Houston. (d. 2014)
1926 – Marques Haynes, an American basketball player. (d. 2015)
1927 – Claude Laydu, a Belgian-French actor. (d. 2011)
1928 – Sara Montiel, a Spanish actress. (d. 2013)
1928 – James Earl Ray, an American criminal. (d. 1998)
1929 – Sam Steiger, an American journalist and politician. (d. 2012)
1930 – Sándor Iharos, a Hungarian runner. (d. 1996)
1931 – Georges Dor, a Canadian author and composer. (d. 2001)
1932 – Marcia Falkender, Baroness Falkender, an English politician. (d. 2019)
1933 – Ralph Emery, an American country music radio and television host. (d. 2022)
1934 – Gergely Kulcsár, a Hungarian javelin thrower. (d. 2020)
1935 – Polly Farmer, an Australian footballer and coach. (d. 2019)
1936 – Sepp Blatter, a Swiss businessman.
1937 – María Kodama, an Argentine writer and translator. (d. 2023)
1938 – Norman Blake, an American singer-songwriter.
1938 – Ron Mix, an American football player.
1939 – Asghar Ali Engineer, an Indian activist and author. (d. 2013)
1939 – Irina Press, a Ukrainian-Russian hurdler and pentathlete. (d. 2004)
1940 – LeRoy Ellis, an American basketball player. (d. 2012)
1940 – Chuck Norris, an American actor and martial artist.
1940 – David Rabe, an American playwright.
1943 – Peter Berresford Ellis, an English historian and author.
1944 – Richard Gant, an American actor.
1945 – Katharine Houghton, an American actress and playwright.
1945 – Madhavrao Scindia, an Indian politician and Indian Minister of Railways. (d. 2001)
1946 – Curley Culp, an American football player. (d. 2021)
1946 – Gérard Garouste, a French contemporary artist.
1946 – Jim Valvano, an American basketball player and coach. (d. 1993)
1947 – Kim Campbell, a Canadian lawyer and politician, the 19th Prime Minister of Canada.
1947 – Tom Scholz, an American musician and songwriter.
1948 – Austin Carr, an American basketball player.
1950 – Aloma Wright, an American actress.
1951 – Gloria Diaz, a Filipino actress and Miss Universe 1969.
1952 – Morgan Tsvangirai, a Zimbabwean politician and Prime Minister of Zimbabwe. (d. 2018)
1953 – Paul Haggis, a Canadian director and screenwriter.
1955 – Toshio Suzuki, a Japanese race car driver.
1956 – Robert Llewellyn, an English actor and producer.
1956 – Larry Myricks, an American long jumper and sprinter.
1957 – Osama bin Laden, a Saudi Arabian terrorist who founded al-Qaeda. (d. 2011)
1957 – Shannon Tweed, a Canadian model and actress.
1958 – Garth Crooks, an English footballer and sportscaster.
1958 – Steve Howe, an American baseball player. (d. 2006)
1958 – Sharon Stone, an American actress and producer.
1961 – Laurel Clark, an American astronaut. (d. 2003)
1961 – Mitch Gaylord, an American gymnast and actor.
1962 – Jasmine Guy, an American actress and singer.
1962 – Seiko Matsuda, a Japanese singer-songwriter.
1963 – Jeff Ament, an American bass player and songwriter.
1963 – Rick Rubin, an American record producer.
1964 – Greg Campbell, an Australian cricketer.
1964 – Neneh Cherry, a Swedish singer-songwriter.
1964 – Prince Edward, Duke of Edinburgh.
1965 – Jillian Richardson, a Canadian sprinter.
1965 – Rod Woodson, an American football player and coach.
1966 – Edie Brickell, an American singer-songwriter.
1966 – Mike Timlin, an American baseball player.
1968 – Alma Čardžić, a Bosnian singer.
1968 – Pavel Srníček, a Czech footballer. (d. 2015)
1969 – Paget Brewster, an American actress.
1971 – Jon Hamm, an American actor and director.
1972 – Matt Kenseth, an American NASCAR driver.
1972 – Timbaland, an American rapper and producer.
1973 – Liu Qiangdong, a Chinese entrepreneur and founder of JD.com.
1973 – Chris Sutton, an English footballer.
1973 – Mauricio Taricco, an Argentine footballer and manager.
1974 – Cristián de la Fuente, a Chilean actor and model.
1976 – Barbara Schett, an Austrian tennis player.
1977 – Shannon Miller, an American gymnast.
1977 – Robin Thicke, an American singer and songwriter.
1977 – Bree Turner, an American actress.
1978 – Benjamin Burnley, an American musician.
1978 – Camille, a French singer-songwriter.
1979 – Edi Gathegi, a Kenyan-American actor.
1979 – Danny Pudi, an American actor.
1981 – Samuel Eto'o, a Cameroonian footballer.
1981 – Steven Reid, an English-Irish footballer.
1982 – Kwame Brown, an American basketball player.
1982 – Dr Disrespect, an American live streamer.
1982 – Logan Mankins, an American football player.
1982 – Thomas Middleditch, a Canadian-American comedian and actor.
1983 – Étienne Boulay, a Canadian football player.
1983 – Janet Mock, an American journalist and author.
1983 – Rafe Spall, an English actor.
1983 – Carrie Underwood, an American singer-songwriter.
1984 – Tim Brent, a Canadian ice hockey player.
1984 – Ben May, an English footballer.
1984 – Olivia Wilde, an American actress and director.
1986 – Sergei Shirokov, a Russian ice hockey player.
1987 – Martellus Bennett, an American football player.
1987 – Tuukka Rask, a Finnish ice hockey player.
1987 – Emeli Sandé, a British singer-songwriter.
1987 – Māris Štrombergs, a Latvian BMX racer.
1988 – Clarissa dos Santos, a Brazilian basketball player.
1988 – Ego Nwodim, an American actress.
1988 – Quincy Pondexter, an American basketball player and coach.
1988 – Ivan Rakitić, a Croatian football player.
1989 – Simon Moser, a Swiss ice hockey player.
1989 – Dayán Viciedo, a Cuban baseball player.
1990 – Stefanie Vögele, a Swiss tennis player.
1992 – Neeskens Kebano, a French-Congolese footballer.
1992 – Emily Osment, an American actress and singer-songwriter.
1993 – Jack Butland, an English footballer.
1993 – Aminata Namasia, a Congolese politician.
1994 – Bad Bunny, a Puerto Rican rapper and songwriter.
1994 – Nikita Parris, an English footballer.
1995 – Zach LaVine, an American basketball player.
1995 – Sergey Mozgov, a Russian ice dancer.
1997 – Belinda Bencic, a Swiss tennis player.
1998 – Justin Herbert, an American football player.
1999 – Cole Kmet, an American football player.
2000 – Nick Bolton, an American football player.
2002 – Keon Johnson, an American basketball player.
2004 – Matt Poitras, a Canadian ice hockey player.

Notable Deaths on March 10

Passed Away Before 1600

483 – Pope Simplicius.
948 – Liu Zhiyuan, the founder of the Later Han dynasty. (b. 895)
1291 – Arghun, a Mongol ruler in Persia. (b. c. 1258)
1315 – Agnes Blannbekin, an Austrian mystic.
1513 – John de Vere, 13th Earl of Oxford, an English commander. (b. 1442)
1528 – Balthasar Hübmaier, a German/Moravian Anabaptist leader.
1572 – William Paulet, 1st Marquess of Winchester.
1585 – Rembert Dodoens, a Flemish physician and botanist. (b. 1517)

Passed Away Between 1601 and 1900

1682 – Jacob van Ruisdael, a Dutch painter. (b. 1628)
1724 – Urban Hjärne, a Swedish chemist and physician. (b. 1641)
1776 – Élie Catherine Fréron, a French author and critic. (b. 1718)
1792 – John Stuart, 3rd Earl of Bute, a Scottish politician and Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. (b. 1713)
1826 – John Pinkerton, a Scottish historian and cartographer. (b. 1758)
1832 – Muzio Clementi, an Italian pianist and composer. (b. 1752)
1861 – Taras Shevchenko, a Ukrainian poet and playwright. (b. 1814)
1872 – Giuseppe Mazzini, an Italian journalist and politician. (b. 1805)
1895 – Charles Frederick Worth, an English-French fashion designer. (b. 1825)
1897 – Savitribai Phule, an Indian poet and activist. (b. 1831)
1898 – Marie-Eugénie de Jésus, a French nun and saint. (b. 1817)

Passed Away After 1900

1910 – Karl Lueger, an Austrian politician and Mayor of Vienna. (b. 1844)
1910 – Carl Reinecke, a German pianist and composer. (b. 1824)
1913 – Harriet Tubman, an American nurse and activist. (b. c. 1820)
1925 – Myer Prinstein, a Polish-American jumper. (b. 1878)
1937 – Yevgeny Zamyatin, a Russian journalist and author. (b. 1884)
1940 – Mikhail Bulgakov, a Russian novelist and playwright. (b. 1891)
1942 – Wilbur Scoville, an American pharmacist and chemist. (b. 1865)
1948 – Zelda Fitzgerald, an American author and artist. (b. 1900)
1948 – Jan Masaryk, a Czech soldier and politician. (b. 1886)
1951 – Kijūrō Shidehara, a Japanese lawyer and politician, and Prime Minister of Japan. (b. 1872)
1966 – Frits Zernike, a Dutch physicist and Nobel Prize laureate. (b. 1888)
1966 – Frank O'Connor, an Irish short story writer and novelist. (b. 1903)
1973 – Evelyn Baring, a British colonial governor. (b. 1903)
1973 – Li Mi, a Chinese lieutenant general. (b. 1902)
1973 – Richard Sharples, a British politician and Governor of Bermuda. (b. 1916)
1977 – E. Power Biggs, an English-American organist. (b. 1906)
1985 – Konstantin Chernenko, a Russian politician and Head of State of The Soviet Union. (b. 1911)
1985 – Bob Nieman, an American baseball player. (b. 1927)
1986 – Ray Milland, a Welsh-American actor and director. (b. 1907)
1988 – Andy Gibb, an Australian singer-songwriter. (b. 1958)
1992 – Giorgos Zampetas, a Greek bouzouki player and composer. (b. 1925)
1996 – Ross Hunter, an American film producer. (b. 1926)
1997 – LaVern Baker, an American singer and actress. (b. 1929)
1998 – Lloyd Bridges, an American actor and director. (b. 1913)
1999 – Oswaldo Guayasamín, an Ecuadorian painter and sculptor. (b. 1919)
2005 – Dave Allen, an Irish-English comedian. (b. 1936)
2007 – Ernie Ladd, an American football player and wrestler. (b. 1938)
2010 – Muhammad Sayyid Tantawy, an Egyptian scholar. (b. 1928)
2010 – Corey Haim, a Canadian actor. (b. 1971)
2011 – Bill Blackbeard, an American author and illustrator. (b. 1926)
2012 – Jean Giraud, a French author and illustrator. (b. 1938)
2012 – Frank Sherwood Rowland, an American chemist and Nobel Prize laureate. (b. 1927)
2013 – Princess Lilian, Duchess of Halland, a British-born Swedish Princess. (b. 1915)
2015 – Richard Glatzer, an American director and screenwriter. (b. 1952)
2016 – Ken Adam, a German-English production designer. (b. 1921)
2016 – Roberto Perfumo, an Argentinian footballer. (b. 1942)
2016 – Jovito Salonga, a Filipino lawyer and politician. (b. 1920)
2016 – Anita Brookner, an English novelist and art historian. (b. 1928)
2022 – John Elliott, an English historian. (b. 1930)

Holidays and Observances

Harriet Tubman Day (in the USA)
Holocaust Remembrance Day (in Bulgaria)
Mario Day (celebrated Globally)
Men's Day (in Poland)
National Women and Girls HIV/AIDS Awareness Day (in the United States)
Székely Freedom Day (in Romania)
Tibetan Uprising Day (for the Tibetan independence movement)