10 July in history

6 events that happened on 10 July, from 1553 to 1962.

  1. ✦ Anniversary of the day

    1553 CE 473 years ago

    Lady Jane Grey is proclaimed Queen of England

    Days after Edward VI's death, the Duke of Northumberland had his Protestant daughter-in-law proclaimed queen to bar the Catholic Mary Tudor. Jane's reign lasted nine days; she was executed the following year.

    England

  2. 1584 CE 442 years ago

    William the Silent is assassinated in Delft

    Balthasar Gérard shot William of Orange, leader of the Dutch revolt against Spain, at his home in Delft. He is often cited as the first head of state killed with a handgun.

  3. 1890 CE 136 years ago

    Wyoming becomes the 44th US state

    Wyoming joined the Union with women's suffrage intact; as a territory it had given women the vote in 1869. Congress accepted the state despite opposition to its equal-suffrage clause.

  4. 1925 CE 101 years ago

    The Scopes 'Monkey Trial' opens in Tennessee

    Teacher John Scopes went on trial in Dayton for teaching human evolution. The clash between Clarence Darrow and William Jennings Bryan turned a local case into a national debate on science and faith.

  5. 1940 CE 86 years ago

    The Battle of Britain begins

    The Luftwaffe began attacking Channel convoys and coastal targets, the date Britain uses for the start of the Battle of Britain. The RAF's survival over four months forced Hitler to postpone his invasion.

  6. 1962 CE 64 years ago

    Telstar is launched, the first satellite to relay live TV

    NASA launched AT&T's Telstar 1 from Cape Canaveral. Within hours it relayed the first television pictures across the Atlantic, opening the age of satellite communications.

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