10 October

Events

Pre-1600

* 680 – The Battle of Karbala marks the Martyrdom of Husayn ibn Ali.
* 732 – Charles Martel's forces defeat an Umayyad army near Tours, France.
* 1471 – Sten Sture the Elder, the Regent of Sweden, with the help of farmers and miners, repels an attack by King Christian I of Denmark.
* 1492 – The crew of Christopher Columbus's ship, the '' Santa Maria'', attempt a mutiny.
* 1575 – Roman Catholic forces under Henry I, Duke of Guise, defeat the Protestants, capturing Philippe de Mornay among others.
*1580 – Over 600 Papal troops land in Ireland to support the Second Desmond Rebellion.

1601–1900

* 1631 – Thirty Years' War: An army of the Electorate of Saxony seizes Prague.
* 1760 – In a treaty with the Dutch colonial authorities, the Ndyuka people of Suriname – descended from escaped slaves – gain territorial autonomy.
* 1780 – The Great Hurricane of 1780 kills 20,000–30,000 in the Caribbean.
* 1814 – War of 1812: The United States Revenue Marine attempts to defend the cutter ''Eagle'' from the Royal Navy.
*1845 – In Annapolis, Maryland, the Naval School (later the United States Naval Academy) opens with 50 students.
*1846 – Triton, the largest moon of the planet Neptune, is discovered by English astronomer William Lassell – The Ten Years' War begins against Spanish rule in Cuba.

1901–present

* 1903 – The Women's Social and Political Union is founded in support of the enfranchisement of British women.
*1911 – The day after a bomb explodes prematurely, the Wuchang Uprising begins against the Chinese monarchy.
*1913 – U.S. President Woodrow Wilson triggers the explosion of the Gamboa Dike, completing major construction on the Panama Canal.
* 1918 – ''RMS Leinster'' is torpedoed and sunk by '' UB-123'', killing 564, the worst-ever on the Irish Sea.
* 1920 – The Carinthian plebiscite determines that the larger part of the Duchy of Carinthia should remain part of Austria.
*1928 – Chiang Kai-shek becomes Chairman of the Republic of China.
* 1933 – A United Airlines Boeing 247 is destroyed by sabotage, the first such proven case in the history of commercial aviation.
*1935 – In Greece, a coup d'état ends the Second Hellenic Republic.
*1938 – Abiding by the Munich Agreement, Czechoslovakia completes its withdrawal from the Sudetenland.
*1945 – The Double Tenth Agreement is signed by the Communist Party and the Kuomintang about the future of China.
*1954 – The Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Sultanate of Muscat, Neil Innes, sends a signal to the Sultanate's forces, accompanied with oil explorers, to penetrate Fahud, marking the beginning of Jebel Akhdar War between the Imamate of Oman and the Sultanate of Muscat.
*1957 – U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower apologizes to Ghanaian finance minister Komla Agbeli Gbedemah after he is refused service in a Delaware restaurant.
* 1957 – The Windscale fire results in Britain's worst nuclear accident.
*1963 – France cedes control of the Bizerte naval base to Tunisia.
* 1963 – The Partial Nuclear Test Ban Treaty comes into effect.
*1964 – The Tokyo Summer Olympics opening ceremony is the first to be relayed live by satellites.
* 1967 – The Outer Space Treaty comes into force.
*1970 – Fiji becomes independent.
* 1970 – Canada's October Crisis escalates when Quebec Vice Premier Pierre Laporte is kidnapped by members of the Front de libération du Québec.
* 1973 – U.S. Vice President Spiro Agnew resigns after being charged with evasion of federal income tax.
*1975 – Papua New Guinea joins the United Nations.
* 1979 – The Olkiluoto Nuclear Power Plant began operations in Eurajoki, Satakunta, Finland.
*1980 – The 7.1 El Asnam earthquake shakes northern Algeria, killing 2,633 and injuring 8,369.
* 1980 – The Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front is founded in El Salvador.
*1985 – US Navy aircraft intercept an Egyptian airliner carrying the perpetrators of the ''Achille Lauro'' hijacking, and force it to land in Italy.
*1986 – A 5.7 San Salvador earthquake shakes El Salvador, killing 1,500.
*1997 – Austral Líneas Aéreas Flight 2553 crashes and explodes in Uruguay, killing 74.
* 1998 – A Lignes Aériennes Congolaises jetliner is shot down by rebels in Kindu, Democratic Republic of the Congo, killing 41 people.
*2002 – Iraq War: The United States Congress approves the Authorization for Use of Military Force Against Iraq Resolution of 2002