Portal:History of science/Selected anniversaries/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