10th of March

See also: Category: Holidays March 10

National

•   Azerbaijan - National Theater Day ^[2] .
•   Republic of Korea - Labor Day.
•   Laos - Teacher's Day.
•   Myanmar - Day Start Dry Season
•   Russia - Archives Day .

  Religious

  Catholicism

• memory of St. Anastasia ;
• memory of Chimelin Wissenaken ;
• memory of John Ogilvy ;
• memory of Macarius of Jerusalem ;
• memory of the Pope Simplicius .

  Orthodoxy ^{[3] [4]}

Note : indicated for non-leap years, in leap years the list is different ^[1] , see March 11 .

• memory of St. Tarasius, Patriarch of Constantinople (806);
• memory of the holy martyr Alexander Vinogradov , presbyter;
• Rev. Martyr Mstislava (Fokina) (1938);
• memory of the holy martyr Nikolai Troitsky , presbyter (1945).

Name Day

• Catholic: Anastasia , John, Makar, Simplicius, Chimelin.
• Orthodox: Alexander , Mstislav, Nikolai , Tarasius ^{[3] [4]} . ( Note : indicated for non-leap years, in leap years the list is different ^[1] , see March 11th .)

See also: Category: March 10 events

Until the 19th century

• 1535 - Spanish sailors discovered the Galapagos Islands in the Pacific Ocean , 972 kilometers west of Ecuador .
• 1710 - The first printed geographic book in Russian entitled “Geography, or a brief description of the earthly world” was published.
• 1736 - premiere of the opera-ballet " Gallant India " by J.-F. Rameau , in the Third edition: in four exits with a prologue ( Paris , Royal Academy of Music ).
• 1755 - in St. Petersburg, the first opera in the Russian Empire in Russian was given - “ Cephalus and Procris ” by Francesco Arai (the author of the libretto is A. P. Sumarokov ).
• 1762 - Protestant Jean Calas was wheeled in Toulouse , which served as the occasion for the start of the campaign of Voltaire for religious tolerance .
• 1791 - A pile driver for driving piles is patented.
• 1797 - The state capital of New York was moved from New York to Albany .

XIX century

• 1801 - The first census was launched in Britain .
• 1806 - By order of Emperor Alexander I , the Museum of the Moscow Kremlin was created .
• 1813 - The Iron Cross military order was established in Germany .
• 1862 - The US Federal Government issued paper money for the first time in this country.
• 1876 - Three days after receiving a patent for the telephone he invented, Alexander Bell first managed to get through to his assistant Thomas Watson, who is in the next room.
• 1878 - A pocket edition of Kobzar by Taras Shevchenko was released in Geneva .
• 1893 - Ivory Coast became a French colony.

XX century

• 1900 - during the Second Boer War , the Battle of Drifontein took place .
• 1904 - The death of the destroyer " Guardian ".
• 1905 - Chelsea Football Club was founded in London .
• 1906 - The Bakerloo line of the London Underground was opened in Britain .
• 1910 - Slavery is prohibited in China .
• 1910 - The first night flights were made by the Frenchman Emile Obren on the Bleriot monoplane . Both of his 20 km flights began and ended at the Villalugano airfield in Buenos Aires ( Argentina ).
• 1914 - The English suffragist Mary Richardson in the London National Gallery with a meat chopper chopped a picture of Velazquez depicting Venus .
• 1918 - In view of the German threat, the Congress of Soviets adopted a resolution to temporarily transfer the capital from Petrograd to Moscow .
• 1918 - The Bolshevik government of Ukraine moved from Poltava to Yekaterinoslav .
• 1920 - The Council of Ulster Nationalists voted to pass a government law on Ireland , according to which the country was to be divided into two parts - Northern and Southern - with their own parliaments .
• 1924 - Diplomatic relations between the USSR and Norway are established .
• 1939 - Regular television broadcasting began from the Shabolovsky television center in Moscow .
• 1939 - The 18th Congress of the CPSU (B.) Is opened, which recognized the victory of socialism in the USSR and decided "on a gradual transition from socialism to communism."
• 1943 - Work began on the creation of nuclear weapons in the USSR.
• 1945 - The bombing of Tokyo by US aircraft . Killed from 80 to over 100 thousand people.
• 1952 - Fulgencio Batista carried out a coup d'etat in Cuba and appointed himself as "interim president".
• 1959 - The Antarctic Scientific Station " Lazarev " is opened.
• 1959 - uprising in Tibet . As a result of the suppression of the uprising, the Dalai Lama XIV and his supporters were expelled to the city of Darmsala ( India ) (see March 17 ).
• 1960 - Indians in Canada gained the right to vote .
• 1960 - In the UK, the first national hit parade of albums was first published. The first place was then taken by Freddy Cannon with an Explosive Freddy Cannon record .
• 1964 - In the area of Magdeburg ( GDR ), an American RB-66 reconnaissance aircraft was shot down.
• 1967 - US Aviation launched the first raid on the country's main industrial facilities since the start of the massive bombing of North Vietnam .
• 1970 - In order to stop theological fermentation and stimulate emigration to Israel , the Knesset decided to consider a Jew not only “born of a Jewess”, but also any non-Jew who converted to Judaism .
• 1972 - An explosion occurred at the Minsk Radio Plant ( Belarus ).
• 1977 - Several groups of astronomers from the USA , Australia , India , South Africa discovered the rings of Uranus .
• 1982 - Rare planet parade - all nine planets ( Mercury , Venus , Earth , Mars , Jupiter , Saturn , Uranus , Neptune and Pluto ) gathered on one side of the Sun in a sector with an angle of 95 degrees ^[5] (that is, the maximum difference of the heliocentric the ecliptic longitudes of the planets was 95 degrees).
• 1987 - The Vatican publishes a Memo on the Origins of Human Life and the Greatness of Childbirth: Answers to Some Questions of Today, which condemns methods of in vitro fertilization and calls for banning experiments with living human embryos .

See also: Category: Born on March 10

Until the 18th century

• 1415 - Vasily II Vasilyevich Dark (d. 1462 ), Grand Duke of Moscow (from 1425), son of Vasily I Dmitrievich and Sofya Vitovtovna .
• 1452 - Ferdinand II (d. 1516 ), king of Castile , Aragon , Sicily and Naples , spouse and co-ruler of Queen Isabella of Castile .
• 1503 - Ferdinand I (d. 1564 ), emperor of the Holy Roman Empire (since 1556).
• 1628 - Marcello Malpigi (d. 1694 ), Italian biologist and doctor, one of the founders of the microscopic anatomy of plants and animals.

18th century

• 1709 - Georg Wilhelm Steller (d. 1746 ), German naturalist scientist, adjunct of natural history and botany of the St. Petersburg Academy of Sciences.
• 1749 - Lorenzo da Ponte (d. 1838 ), Italian librettist and translator.
• 1772 - Friedrich Schlegel (d. 1829 ), German philosopher, critic, philologist, linguist, writer.
• 1776 - Louise of Prussia (d. 1810 ), wife of Frederick William III , consort queen of Prussia , grandmother of the Russian emperor Alexander II .
• 1787 - Ustim Karmalyuk (killed in 1835 ), Ukrainian peasant, leader of the movement of peasants in Podillia in 1813-1835.
• 1788 - Joseph von Eichendorf (d. 1857 ), German poet and writer.

XIX century

• 1802 - Vasily Karatygin (d. 1853 ), Russian actor, tragedian.
• 1833 - Pedro Antonio de Alarcon (d. 1891 ), Spanish writer and politician.
• 1844 - Pablo de Sarasate (d. 1908 ), Spanish violinist and composer.

• 1845 - Alexander III (d. 1894 ), Russian emperor (1881-1894).
• 1849 - Leonid Posen (d. 1921 ), Russian sculptor, Wanderer and politician.
• 1852 - Tadas Daugirdas (d. 1919 ), Lithuanian artist, archaeologist, local historian, one of the authors of the coat of arms and flag of Lithuania .
• 1858 - Henry Watson Fowler (d. 1933 ), English teacher, lexicographer , researcher of the English language.
• 1864 - Adams Alksnis (d. 1897 ), Latvian draftsman and realist painter.
• 1875 - Alexander Goldenweiser (d. 1961 ), pianist, composer, music critic, public figure, people's artist of the USSR.
• 1892 - Arthur Honegger (d. 1955 ), Swiss-French composer and music critic.

XX century

• 1903 - Bix Biderback (d. 1931 ), American jazz trumpeter.
• 1908 - Joseph Kotin (d. 1979 ), Russian designer , creator of the KV-1 and IS tanks.
• 1914 - Daniil Danin (d. 2000 ), Soviet and Russian writer, screenwriter, literary critic, popularizer of science.
• 1918 - Anatoly Granik (d. 1989 ), Soviet director of fiction, documentary and popular science films, screenwriter.
• 1920 - Boris Vian (d. 1959 ), French writer, jazz musician and singer.
• 1923
  • Jacob Segel (d. 1995 ), actor, film director, screenwriter, People's Artist of the RSFSR.
  • Val Logsden Fitch (d. 2015 ), American physicist, Nobel laureate (1980).
• 1926 - Alexander Zatsepin , Soviet and Russian composer, songwriter, People's Artist of the Russian Federation.
• 1928 - James Earl Ray (d. 1998 ), the killer of Martin Luther King .
• 1930
  • Justinas Martsinkevičius (d. 2011 ), Lithuanian poet, prose writer, playwright.
  • (d. 2015 ), German mathematician; Erwin Nestle’s son, Eberhard Nestle’s grandson ^[6] .
• 1931 - Boris Nosik (d. 2015 ), Russian writer and journalist, playwright, translator.
• 1932 - Anatoly Roshchin , Soviet Greco-Roman wrestler , heavyweight, Olympic champion (1972) .
• 1936 - Joseph Blatter , sports journalist, amateur soccer player, FIFA's eighth president.
• 1940 - Chuck Norris , American film actor, master of martial arts .
• 1946 - Vladimir Gostyukhin , Russian and Belarusian film and theater actor, film director.
• 1949 - Agop Melkonyan , Bulgarian science fiction writer.
• 1951 - Valery Mishchuk , Russian bard.
• 1955 - Juliusz Makhulsky , Polish film director, screenwriter, producer.
• 1957 - Osama bin Laden (assassinated in 2011 ), Saudi Sheikh , “Terrorist No. 1”.
• 1958 - Sharon Stone , American model and film actress.
• 1964 - Nene Cherry , Swedish singer, rap artist, poet and composer.
• 1972 - Eugene Roshal , Russian programmer, author of the WinRAR archiver.
• 1973 - Eva Herzigova , Czech supermodel.
• 1981 - Samuel Eto'o , Cameroonian footballer (striker).
• 1984 - Olivia Wilde , American film actress.
• 1985 - Lassana Diarra , French footballer.
• 1988 - Ivan Rakitić , Croatian footballer.
• 1992 - Emily Osment , film actress.

See also: Category: Dead on March 10

Until the 19th century

• 1585 - Rembert Dodoens (b. 1517 ), Flemish botanist, doctor, geographer, astronomer.
• 1670 - Johann Rudolph Glauber (b. 1604 ), German alchemist, chemist, pharmacist and doctor.
• 1792 - John Stuart, 3rd Earl of Butte (b. 1713 ), Scottish nobleman, 7th Prime Minister of Great Britain (1762-1763).

XIX century

• 1805 - Felice Fontana (b. 1730 ), Italian physicist, naturalist and chemist.
• 1819 - Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi (b. 1743 ), German philosopher.
• 1825 - Karl Brandan Mollweide (b. 1774 ), German mathematician and astronomer.
• 1826 - Juan VI (b. 1767 ), king of the United Kingdom of Portugal, Brazil and the Algarve (1816-1826).
• 1832 - Muzio Clementi (b. 1752 ), Italian composer, pianist, teacher.
• 1856 - Ludovico Lipparini (b. 1800 ), Italian artist.
• 1861 - Taras Shevchenko (b. 1814 ), Ukrainian poet, artist, founder of the national literary language .
• 1865 - Eugene Obolensky (b. 1796 ), prince, Decembrist, member of the Union of Welfare , participant in the Decembrist uprising .
• 1872 - Giuseppe Mazzini (b. 1805 ), Italian revolutionary, fighter for the unification of Italy .
• 1876 - Athanasius Schapov (b. 1831 ), Russian historian, publicist, writer, philosopher.
• 1878 - Mirza Fatali Akhundov (b. 1812 ), Azerbaijani writer, educator, philosopher.
• 1879 - Vasily Sadovnikov (b. 1800 ), Russian artist.
• 1895 - Charles Frederick Worth (b. 1825 ), French couturier of English descent.

XX century

• 1902 - Mikhail Pevtsov (b. 1843 ), Russian traveler, explorer of Central and Central Asia.
• 1910 - Karl Reinecke (b. 1824 ), German composer, conductor and pianist.
• 1937 - Evgeny Zamyatin (b. 1884 ), Russian writer.
• 1940 - Mikhail Bulgakov (b. 1891 ), Russian Soviet writer and playwright.
• 1942 - Wilbur Scoville (b. 1865 ), American chemist.
• 1948 - Jan Masaryk (b. 1886 ), Czech diplomat, ambassador, Minister of Foreign Affairs, during World War II - Minister of Government in exile.
• 1951 - Yakov Nikoladze (b. 1876 ), Georgian sculptor, national artist of the Georgian SSR.
• 1961 - Mikhail Dubson (b. 1899 ), Russian and Soviet film director and screenwriter.
• 1966 - Fritz Zernike (b. 1888 ), Dutch physicist, Nobel laureate (1953).
• 1972 - Alexander Gunzburg (b. 1907 ), Soviet cameraman and director.
• 1976 - Andris Andreiko (b. 1942 ), international grandmaster in international drafts, three-time world champion.
• 1983 - Sergey Poluyanov (b. 1924 ), Soviet cameraman and photojournalist.
• 1985 - Konstantin Chernenko (b. 1911 ), Soviet party leader, General Secretary of the CPSU Central Committee (1984-1985).
• 1988 - Andy Gibb (b. 1958 ), British pop and disco singer.
• 1992 - Nikolai Gribachev (b. 1910 ), Soviet writer and statesman.
• 1993
  • Vladimir Suteev (b. 1903 ), Russian Soviet children's writer, illustrator and animator.
  • Peter Starostin (b. 1909 ), Soviet football player.
• 2000 - Christopher Baghdasaryan (b. 1908 ), Soviet and Russian physicist-chemist, academician of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR and the Russian Academy of Sciences .

21st Century

• 2001 - Vladimir Voroshilov (b. 1930 ), author, director and host of the TV show “ What? Where? When? ".
• 2002 - Vladimir Nakhabtsev (b. 1938 ), cameraman, People's Artist of the RSFSR.
• 2003 - Marina Ladynina (b. 1908 ), film actress, People's Artist of the USSR.
• 2004 - Borislav Brondukov (b. 1938 ), actor, people's artist of the Ukrainian SSR.
• 2010 - Dorothy Janice (b. 1910 ), American silent film actress .
• 2012 - Sherwood Rowland (b. 1927 ), American chemist, Nobel laureate (1995).
• 2013 - Boris Arakcheev (b. 1926 ), Belarusian Soviet painter.
• 2017
  • Guido Kokars (b. 1921 ), Soviet and Latvian choral conductor, founder of the chamber choir Ave Sol .
  • John Curtis (b. 1934 ), British motorcycle and racing driver, world champion.
• 2018 - Hubert de Givenchy (b. 1927 ), French fashion designer, founder of the Givenchy fashion house.

Taras Kumoshnik . Tarasius the Sleepless (only for non-leap years ^[1] ).

• In ancient times, it was believed that bedtime in early Russia (or going to bed during the day) is very dangerous for Taras — you can sleep Kumakhu (Kumakha - evil spirits , start to twist a person in the middle of the day, break your legs in the evening. Only one day a year (for Taras Kumashnik) falls Kumaha climb the porch and walk around the house). They used to say: " Though you walk along the wall, but wait a little ."
• If on Taras the door will fall off its hinges - wait for trouble (fire or death of a relative or illness) ^[7] .
• On Taras, the average period of occurrence of thawed patches in the north ^[8] .