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On July 10, 138: Emperor Hadrian of Rome dies of heart failure at his residence on the bay of Naples, Baiae; he is buried at Rome in the Tomb of Hadrian beside his late wife, Vibia Sabina.

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Emperor Hadrian of Rome dies of heart failure at his residence on the bay of Naples, Baiae; he is buried at Rome in the Tomb of Hadrian beside his late wife, Vibia Sabina.

Year 138 (CXXXVIII) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Niger and Camerinus. The denomination 138 for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calendar era became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years.

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Born on July 10

Moo Deng 2024– Thai pygmy hippopotamus (born 2024)
Mason Thames 2007– American actor (born 2007)
Reece Walsh 2002– Australia international rugby league footballer
Isabela Merced 2001– American actress (born 2001)
April Ivy 1999– Musical artist
San 1999– South Korean singer and dancer (born 1999)
Angus Cloud 1998– American actor (1998–2023)
Chae Soo-bin 1994– South Korean actress (born 1994)
Han Yu 1992– Chinese pool player (born 1992)
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Daishōmaru Shōgo 1991– Japanese sumo wrestler
Adam Reynolds 1990– Australian rugby league footballer
Trent Richardson 1990– American football player (born 1990)
Chiyonokuni Toshiki 1990– Japanese sumo wrestler
Antonio Brown 1988– American football player (born 1988)
Heather Hemmens 1988– American actress, director (born 1984)
Sarah Walker 1988– New Zealand BMX racer (born 1988)
Park Chu-young 1985– South Korean footballer (born 1985)
B. J. Crombeen 1985– American-born Canadian ice hockey player

People

Died on July 10

David Gergen American political consultant (1942–2025)
Joe Engle American astronaut (1932–2024)
Alex Janvier Canadian First Nations artist (1935–2024)
Dave Loggins American musician (1947–2024)
Maurice Boucher Canadian outlaw biker and gangster (1953–2022)
Lara van Ruijven Dutch short track speed skater (1992–2020)
Jack Charlton English footballer and manager (1935–2020)
Denise Nickerson American actress (1957–2019)
Henry Morgenthau III American author and television producer (1917–2018)
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Katharina Focke German politician
Roger Rees Welsh actor (1944–2015)
Omar Sharif Egyptian actor (1932–2015)
Jon Vickers Canadian opera singer
Robert C. Broomfield American judge (1933–2014)
Juozas Kazickas Lithuanian-American businessman and philanthropist (born 1918)
Paul G. Risser American ecologist and academic (1939–2014)
Zohra Sehgal Indian actress and choreographer (1912–2014)
Gloria Schweigerdt American baseball player

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Every July 10 on record

  1. 138 Emperor Hadrian of Rome dies of heart failure at his residence on the bay of Naples, Baiae; he is buried at Rome in the Tomb of Hadrian beside his late wife, Vibia Sabina.

    Calendar year

    Year 138 (CXXXVIII) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Niger and Camerinus. The denomination 138 for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calendar era became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years.

  2. 420 Having usurped the throne of Emperor Gong of Jin, Liu Yu proclaims himself Emperor of the Liu Song dynasty.

    Calendar year

    Year 420 (CDXX) was a leap year starting on Thursday of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Theodosius and Constantius. The denomination 420 for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calendar era became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years.

  3. 645 Isshi Incident: Prince Naka-no-Ōe and Fujiwara no Kamatari assassinate Soga no Iruka during a coup d'état at the imperial palace.

    645 Japanese assassination and political crisis

    The Isshi incident was a successful plot by Nakatomi no Kamatari, Prince Naka no Ōe and others who conspired to eliminate the main branch of the Soga clan, beginning with the assassination of Soga no Iruka. It takes its name from the zodiological name of the year 645 during which the Taika Reform, a transformative event in Japanese Imperial history, occurred.

  4. 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.

    King of Dublin from 980 to 989

    Glúniairn, in Old Norse Járnkné, was a Norse-Gael king of Dublin of the Uí Ímair kindred which ruled over much of the Scandinavianised and Norse-Gael parts of Great Britain and Ireland in the tenth century.

  5. 1212 The most severe of several early fires of London burns most of the city to the ground.

    Disasters before 1666

    The City of London has experienced numerous serious fires in the course of its history.

  6. 1290 Ladislaus IV, King of Hungary, is assassinated at the castle of Körösszeg (modern-day Cheresig in Romania).
  7. 1460 Richard Neville, 16th Earl of Warwick, defeats the king's Lancastrian forces and takes King Henry VI prisoner in the Battle of Northampton.
  8. 1499 The Portuguese explorer Nicolau Coelho returns to Lisbon after discovering the sea route to India as a companion of Vasco da Gama.
  9. 1512 The Spanish conquest of Iberian Navarre commences with the capture of Goizueta.
  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.
  11. 1553 Lady Jane Grey takes the throne of England.
  12. 1584 William I of Orange is assassinated in his home in Delft, Holland, by Balthasar Gérard.
  13. 1645 English Civil War: The Battle of Langport takes place.
  14. 1668 Anglo-Spanish War (1654–1671): Notable Buccaneer Henry Morgan with an English Privateer force lands at Porto Bello in an attempt to capture the fortified and lucrative Spanish city.
  15. 1778 American Revolution: Louis XVI of France declares war on the Kingdom of Great Britain.
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  1. 1789 Alexander Mackenzie reaches the Mackenzie River delta.
  2. 1806 The Vellore Mutiny is the first instance of a mutiny by Indian sepoys against the British East India Company.
  3. 1832 U.S. President Andrew Jackson vetoes a bill that would re-charter the Second Bank of the United States.
  4. 1850 U.S. President Millard Fillmore is sworn in, a day after becoming president upon Zachary Taylor's death.
  5. 1877 The then-villa of Mayagüez, Puerto Rico, formally receives its city charter from the Royal Crown of Spain.
  6. 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.
  7. 1883 War of the Pacific: Chileans led by Alejandro Gorostiaga defeat Andrés Avelino Cáceres's Peruvian army at the Battle of Huamachuco, hastening the end of the war.
  8. 1890 Wyoming is admitted as the 44th U.S. state.
  9. 1920 Arthur Meighen becomes Prime Minister of Canada.
  10. 1921 Belfast's Bloody Sunday occurs with 20 killings, at least 100 wounded and 200 homes destroyed during rioting and gun battles in Belfast, Northern Ireland.
  11. 1924 Paavo Nurmi wins the 1,500 m and 5,000 m events at the Paris Olympics, with just an hour between the two races.
  12. 1925 Scopes trial: In Dayton, Tennessee, the so-called "Monkey Trial" begins of John T. Scopes, a young high school science teacher accused of teaching evolution in violation of the Butler Act.
  13. 1927 Kevin O'Higgins TD, Vice-President of the Executive Council of the Irish Free State, is assassinated by the IRA.
  14. 1938 Howard Hughes begins a 91-hour airplane flight around the world that will set a new record.
  15. 1940 World War II: The Vichy government is established in France.

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