On August 10
On August 10, 3 pivotal events are recorded in the Human Saga, including Treaty of Verdun partitions the Carolingian Empire (843 CE).
On this day
Signed on 10 August 843, the Treaty of Verdun ended a bitter civil war among the grandsons of Charlemagne by dividing the Carolingian Empire among the three surviving sons of Emperor Louis the Pious.
Over three days in August 955, King Otto I of East Francia (Germany) annihilated a large invading Magyar (Hungarian) army near Augsburg on the Lech river.
10 August 1767Catherine the Great's Nakaz and enlightened absolutismPolitics & governance
In 1767 Empress Catherine II of Russia issued the Nakaz, or Instruction, a guiding document for the Legislative Commission convened to draft a new law code.