On this day: June 10

Events on June 10

• 1190 Third Crusade: Frederick I Barbarossa drowns in the river Saleph while leading an army to Jerusalem. Wikipedia
• 1329 Byzantine–Ottoman wars: The heavily armed Byzantine army was defeated by Ottoman forces at the Battle of Pelekanon. Wikipedia
• 1523 Copenhagen is surrounded by the army of Frederick I of Denmark, as the city will not recognise him as the successor of Christian II of Denmark. Wikipedia
• 1539 Council of Trent: Pope Paul III sends out letters to his bishops, delaying the Council due to war and the difficulty bishops had traveling to Venice. Wikipedia
• 1782 King Buddha Yodfa Chulaloke (Rama I) of Siam (modern day Thailand) is crowned. Wikipedia
• 1782 King Rama I moved into the Grand Palace in Bangkok, which has remained the royal residence of Siam and Thailand since then. Wikipedia
• 1829 The first Boat Race between the University of Oxford and the University of Cambridge takes place on the Thames in London. Wikipedia
• 1861 American Civil War: Battle of Big Bethel: Confederate troops under John B. Magruder defeat a much larger Union force led by General Ebenezer W. Pierce in Virginia. Wikipedia
• 1864 American Civil War: Battle of Brice's Crossroads: Confederate troops under Nathan Bedford Forrest defeat a much larger Union force led by General Samuel D. Sturgis in Mississippi. Wikipedia
• 1878 League of Prizren is established, to oppose the decisions of the Congress of Berlin and the Treaty of San Stefano, as a consequence of which the Albanian lands in the Balkans were being partitioned and given to the neighbor states of Serbia, Montenegro, Bulgaria, and Greece. Wikipedia
• 1898 Spanish–American War: In the Battle of Guantánamo Bay, U.S. Marines begin the American invasion of Spanish-held Cuba. Wikipedia
• 1916 Hussein, King of Hejaz, orchestrated a revolt against the Ottoman Empire with the aim of creating a single unified and independent Arab state. Wikipedia
• 1918 World War I: The Austro-Hungarian battleship SMS Szent István sinks off the Croatian coast after being torpedoed by an Italian MAS motorboat; the event is recorded by camera from a nearby vessel. Wikipedia
• 1918 World War I: Italian torpedo boats sank the Austro-Hungarian dreadnought SMS Szent István off the Dalmatian coast, killing 89 of the crew. Wikipedia
• 1935 Chaco War ends: A truce is called between Bolivia and Paraguay who had been fighting since 1932. Wikipedia
• 1940 World War II: Fascist Italy declares war on France and the United Kingdom, beginning an invasion of southern France. Wikipedia
• 1940 World War II: U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt denounces Italy's actions in his "Stab in the Back" speech at the graduation ceremonies of the University of Virginia. Wikipedia
• 1945 World War II: Australian Imperial Forces land in Brunei Bay to liberate Brunei. Wikipedia
• 1963 The Equal Pay Act of 1963, aimed at abolishing wage disparity based on sex, is signed into law by John F. Kennedy as part of his New Frontier Program. Wikipedia
• 1967 The Six-Day War ends: Israel and Syria agree to a cease-fire. Wikipedia
• 1980 The African National Congress in South Africa publishes a call to fight from their imprisoned leader Nelson Mandela. Wikipedia
• 1996 Peace talks begin in Northern Ireland without the participation of Sinn Féin. Wikipedia
• 1999 Kosovo War: NATO suspends its airstrikes after Slobodan Milošević agrees to withdraw Serbian forces from Kosovo. Wikipedia
• 2001 Pope John Paul II canonizes Lebanon's first female saint, Saint Rafqa. Wikipedia
• 2018 The Opportunity rover sends its last message back to Earth. The mission was finally declared over on February 13, 2019. Wikipedia
• 2024 A plane crash in Malawi leaves 10 people dead, including the country's Vice President Saulos Chilima. Wikipedia

Born on June 10

• 940 Abu al-Wafa' Buzjani, Persian mathematician and astronomer (died 998) Wikipedia
• 1819 Gustave Courbet, French-Swiss painter and sculptor (died 1877) Wikipedia
• 1832 Nicolaus Otto, German engineer (died 1891) Wikipedia
• 1880 André Derain, French painter and sculptor (died 1954) Wikipedia
• 1893 Hattie McDaniel, American actress (died 1952) Wikipedia
• 1897 Grand Duchess Tatiana Nikolaevna of Russia (died 1918) Wikipedia
• 1911 Ralph Kirkpatrick, American harpsichord player and musicologist (died 1984) Wikipedia
• 1915 Saul Bellow, Canadian-American novelist, essayist and short story writer, Nobel Prize laureate (died 2005) Wikipedia
• 1916 William Rosenberg, American entrepreneur, founded Dunkin' Donuts (died 2002) Wikipedia
• 1921 Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, Prince of the United Kingdom, Prince of Greece and Denmark, Consort of Queen Elizabeth II (died 2021) Wikipedia
• 1922 Judy Garland, American actress and singer (died 1969) Wikipedia
• 1928 Maurice Sendak, American author and illustrator (died 2012) Wikipedia
• 1929 E. O. Wilson, American biologist, author, and academic (died 2021) Wikipedia
• 1930 Aranka Siegal, Czech-American author and Holocaust survivor Wikipedia
• 1931 João Gilberto, Brazilian singer-songwriter and guitarist (died 2019) Wikipedia
• 1959 Carlo Ancelotti, Italian footballer and manager Wikipedia
• 1965 Elizabeth Hurley, English model, actress, and producer Wikipedia
• 1972 Sundar Pichai, Indian-American businessman Wikipedia
• 1982 Princess Madeleine, Duchess of Hälsingland and Gästrikland Wikipedia
• 1982 Tara Lipinski, American figure skater Wikipedia
• 1992 Kate Upton, American model and actress Wikipedia
• 1999 Rafael Leão, Portuguese footballer Wikipedia

Died on June 10

• 38 Julia Drusilla, Roman sister of Caligula (born 16 AD) Wikipedia
• 871 Odo I, Frankish nobleman Wikipedia
• 1190 Frederick I, Holy Roman Emperor (born 1122) Wikipedia
• 1580 Luís de Camões, Portuguese poet (born 1524–25) Wikipedia
• 1836 André-Marie Ampère, French physicist and mathematician (born 1775) Wikipedia
• 1849 Robert Brown, Scottish botanist (born 1773) Wikipedia
• 1926 Antoni Gaudí, Spanish architect, designed the Park Güell (born 1852) Wikipedia
• 1949 Sigrid Undset, Danish-Norwegian novelist, essayist, and translator, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1882) Wikipedia
• 1967 Spencer Tracy, American actor (born 1900) Wikipedia
• 1976 Adolph Zukor, American film producer, co-founded Paramount Pictures (born 1873) Wikipedia
• 2000 Hafez al-Assad, Syrian general and politician, 18th President of Syria (born 1930) Wikipedia
• 2004 Ray Charles, American singer-songwriter, pianist, and actor (born 1930) Wikipedia
• 2008 Chinghiz Aitmatov, Kyrgyzstani author and diplomat (born 1928) Wikipedia
• 2023 Ted Kaczynski, American mathematician and domestic terrorist (born 1942) Wikipedia

Holidays and observances

• World Art Nouveau Day (Worldwide) Wikipedia
• Christian feast day: Bogumilus Wikipedia
• Christian feast day: Blessed Diana degli Andalò Wikipedia
• Christian feast day: Blessed Edward Poppe Wikipedia
• Christian feast day: Getulius, Amancius, Cerealus and Primitivus Wikipedia
• Christian feast day: Guardian Angel of Portugal Wikipedia
• Christian feast day: John of Tobolsk (Russian Orthodox Church) Wikipedia
• Christian feast day: Landry of Paris Wikipedia
• Christian feast day: Maurinus of Cologne Wikipedia
• Christian feast day: Maximus of Aveia (or of Aquila) Wikipedia
• Christian feast day: Olivia Wikipedia
• Christian feast day: June 10 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics) Wikipedia
• Portugal Day, also Day of Camões (Portugal and the Portuguese communities) Wikipedia

The events, births, deaths and observances above are from the English Wikipedia article “June 10” and the articles it links to (authors and history), retrieved 2026-10-09 through the Wikimedia “On this day” feed. They are licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0; this selection is shared under the same licence. We picked the 26 events, 22 births and 14 deaths with the widest coverage across Wikipedia's language editions (counted from Wikidata) and sorted them by year; the wording is unchanged apart from removing references to pictures.