July 10 645 Isshi Incident: Prince Naka-no-Ōe and Fujiwara no Kamatari assassinate Soga no Iruka during a coup d'état at the imperial palace.[1]
July 10 988 The Norse King Glúniairn recognises Máel Sechnaill mac Domnaill, High King of Ireland, and agrees to pay taxes and accept Brehon Law; the event is considered to be the founding of the city of Dublin.
July 10 1086 King Canute IV of Denmark is killed by rebellious peasants.
July 10 1460 Richard Neville, 16th Earl of Warwick, defeats the king's Lancastrian forces and takes King Henry VI prisoner in the Battle of Northampton.
July 10 1512 The Spanish conquest of Iberian Navarre commences with the capture of Goizueta.
July 10 1519 Zhu Chenhao declares the Ming dynasty's Zhengde Emperor a usurper, beginning the Prince of Ning rebellion, and leads his army north in an attempt to capture Nanjing.
July 10 1584 William I of Orange is assassinated in his home in Delft, Holland, by Balthasar Gérard.
July 10 1645 English Civil War: The Battle of Langport takes place.[2]
July 10 1778 Louis XVI of France declares war on the Kingdom of Great Britain.
July 10 1806 The Vellore Mutiny is the first instance of a mutiny by Indian sepoys against the British East India Company.
July 10 1882 War of the Pacific: Chile suffers its last military defeat in the Battle of La Concepción when a garrison of 77 men is annihilated by a 1,300-strong Peruvian force, many of them armed with spears.
July 10 1921 Belfast's Bloody Sunday: Sixteen people are killed and 161 houses destroyed during rioting and gun battles in Belfast, Northern Ireland.
July 10 1940 World War II: The Vichy government is established in France.
July 10 1940 World War II: Six days before Adolf Hitler issues his Directive 16 to the combined Wehrmacht armed forces for Operation Sea Lion, the Kanalkampf shipping attacks against British maritime convoys begin, in the leadup to initiating the Battle of Britain.
July 10 1942 World War II: An American pilot spots a downed, intact Mitsubishi A6M Zero on Akutan Island (the "Akutan Zero") that the US Navy uses to learn the aircraft's flight characteristics.
July 10 1943 World War II: Operation Husky begins in Sicily.[3]
July 10 1951 Korean War: Armistice negotiations begin at Kaesong.
July 10 2017 Iraqi Civil War: Mosul is declared fully liberated from the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant.
July 10 2019 The last remaining Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers (REME) battalion based in the city of Paderborn Germany received one of the country's top military awards. 3 Armoured Close Support Battalion REME was given the Fahnenband ceremonial ribbon - the highest honour the German government can give a military unit. The Unit was leaving Germany after 25 years for Tidworth in Wiltshire
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