Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/March 10

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This is a list of selected March 10 anniversaries that appear in the "On this day" section of the Main Page. To suggest a new item, in most cases, you can be bold and edit this page. Please read the selected anniversaries guidelines before making your edit. However, if your addition might be controversial or on a day that is or will soon be on the Main Page, please post your suggestion on the talk page instead.

Please note that the events listed on the Main Page are chosen based more on relative article quality and to maintain a mix of topics, not based solely on how important or significant their subjects are. Only four to five events are posted at a time and thus not everything that is "most important and significant" can be listed. In addition, an event is generally not posted this year if it is also the subject of the scheduled featured article, featured list or picture of the day.

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241 BC – The Roman Republic defeated Carthage in a naval battle off the coast of the Aegadian Islands, near the western coast of the island of Sicily, ending the First Punic War. no inline citations
1629 – King Charles I of England dissolved Parliament, beginning the eleven-year period known as the Personal Rule no footnotes, single source; Charles I already on January 30
1814War of the Sixth Coalition: Blücher's Prussian forces defeated Napoleon's troops at the Battle of Laon, near Laon, France. lead too short
1831King Louis-Philippe of France created the French Foreign Legion as a unit of foreign volunteers because foreigners were forbidden to serve in the French Army after the 1830 July Revolution. more footnotes
1861Toucouleur forces led by El Hadj Umar Tall seized Ségou and conquered the Bamana Empire in present-day Mali. refimprove
1906 – More than 1,000 coal miners were killed in the Courrières mine disaster in Northern France, Europe's worst mining accident. refimprove
2000 – The NASDAQ stock market index peaked at 5048.62, the high point of the dot-com boom. globalize, refimprove section

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Notes

  • Uranus appears on March 12, so Rings of Uranus should not appear in the same year.

March 10: Laetare Sunday (Western Christianity, 2013); Mothering Sunday in the United Kingdom (2013)

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