Portal:History of science/Selected anniversaries/August 10

August 10:

 * 1519 - Ferdinand Magellan's five ships set sail from Seville to circumnavigate the globe


 * 1602 - Birth of Gilles de Roberval, French mathematician (d. 1675)


 * 1675 - The foundation stone of the Royal Greenwich Observatory in London is laid


 * 1802 - Death of Franz Aepinus, German scientist (b. 1724)


 * 1839 - Birth of Aleksandr Grigorievich Stoletov, Russian physicist (d. 1896)


 * 1846 - The Smithsonian Institution is chartered by the U.S. Congress after $500,000 was given for such a purpose by scientist James Smithson


 * 1856 - Birth of William Willett, English inventor of Daylight Saving Time (d. 1915)


 * 1902 - Birth of Arne Tiselius, Swedish chemist, Nobel laureate (d. 1971)


 * 1913 - Birth of Wolfgang Paul, German physicist, Nobel laureate (d. 1993)


 * 1915 - Death of Henry Moseley, English physicist (b. 1887)


 * 1929 - Death of Pierre Fatou, French mathematician (b. 1878)


 * 1979 - Death of Walter Gerlach, German physicist (b. 1889)


 * 1990 - The Magellan space probe reaches Venus