| Events for 10 March |
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| • | 1528 Death of Balthasar Hubmaier (b.1481 in Friedburg, Bavaria, Germany), a leader of the Austrian Anabaptists, burned at the stake as a heretic. |
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| • | 1535 Discovery of the Galapagos Islands by Tomás de Berlanga (1486–1551), Bishop of Panama. |
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| • | 1628 Birth of Marcello Malpighi near Bologna, Italy (d.1694), anatomist and founder of microscopic anatomy, who described the major types of plant and animal structures. |
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| • | 1788 Birth of Edward Hodges Baily in Bristol, Avon (d.1867), sculptor, best known for his statue of Lord Nelson in Trafalgar Square, London. |
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| • | 1792 Death of John Stuart, 3rd Earl of Bute (b.1713 in Edinburgh), British prime minister (1762–3). |
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| • | 1833 Birth of Pedro Antonio de Alarcón (y Ariza) in Guadix, Spain (d.1891), writer, whose works include the novel The Three-Cornered Hat (trans 1874) on which Manuel de Falla's ballet was based. |
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| • | 1863 Marriage of Albert Edward, Prince of Wales (later King Edward VII) to Princess Alexandra of Denmark at St George's Chapel, Windsor. |
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| • | 1876 British educationist and inventor Alexander Graham Bell (1847–1922) made the first telephone call, to his assistant Thomas Watson. |
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| • | 1885 Birth of Tamara Karsavina in St Petersburg, Russia (d.1978), ballet dancer, one of the original members of Diaghilev's Ballets Russes in Paris. |
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| • | 1886 Cruft's dog show was held in London for the first time. |
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| • | 1895 Death of Charles Frederick Worth (b.1825 in Bourne, Lincolnshire), fashion designer, who became known for his elegant crinolined gowns. |
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| • | 1903 Birth of (Leon) Bix Beiderbecke in Davenport, Iowa (d.1931), cornettist and composer, who was a celebrated jazz performer of the 1920s. |
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| • | 1906 Opening of London Underground's Bakerloo Line. |
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| • | 1914 Suffragette Mary Richardson (1889–1961) damaged Velazquez' The Rokeby Venus in London's National Gallery, in protest against the UK government's treatment of Emmeline Pankhurst. |
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| • | 1928 Birth of James Earl Ray in Alton, Illinois (d.1998), assassin, who shot and killed Martin Luther King Jr in 1968, and the following year was sentenced to 99 years in prison. |
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| • | 1934 Death of F Anstey, pseudonym of Thomas Anstey Guthrie (b.1856 in London), writer and whimsical humorist, whose works include Vice Versa (1882), The Brass Bottle (1900), and many other novels and dialogues. |
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| • | 1943 Death of (Robert) Laurence Binyon (b.1869 in Lancaster, Lancashire), poet and art critic, whose poem ‘For the Fallen’ appears in extracts on war memorials throughout the British Commonwealth. |
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| • | 1962 Death of Sir Philip Gibbs (b.1877 in Kensington, London), writer and British war correspondent, whose novels include The Street Of Adventure (1909). |
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| • | 1964 Birth of Prince Edward, Earl of Wessex and Viscount Severn, third son of Queen Elizabeth II. |
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| • | 1969 James Earl Ray (1928–98) pleaded guilty to the murder of Martin Luther King, and was sentenced to 99 years in jail. |
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| • | 1982 All nine planets in the Solar System were in alignment, an astronomical situation known as syzygy. |
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| • | 1998 Death of Lloyd Bridges (b.1913 in San Leandro, California), actor, whose films include The Rainmaker (1956). |
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