Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/October 10
October 10: Double Tenth Day in the Republic of China (1911); Independence Day in Cuba (1868) and Fiji (1970)
- 680 - Battle of Karbala: Imam Husayn bin Ali, the grandson of the Prophet Muhammad, was decapitated by forces under Caliph Yazid I. This is commemorated by Shi'a Muslims as "Aashurah".
- 732 - Battle of Tours: Charles Martel and the Franks defeated a large army of Moors near Poitiers, France, stopping the northward spread of Islam from Spain to the rest of Western Europe.
- 1911 - The Xinhai Revolution began with the Wuchang Uprising, marking the beginning of the collapse of the Qing Dynasty in China.