On this day in history
June 10
MesopotamianScience
YahrzeitHebrew-calendar remembrance
The Hebrew anniversary of a passing drifts against the civil calendar; these fall on June 10 this year.
- R. Mordechai Eliyahud. 2010 CE
Kabbalist and posek; former Sephardi Chief Rabbi of Israel
Trace this life →
- 1858 CEMesopotamian · born
The French Dominican Assyriologist Jean-Vincent Scheil, who first published the Code of Hammurabi stele, was born on this day in 1858.
- 1854 CEScience
Bernhard Riemann delivered his habilitation lecture at Gottingen on the foundations of geometry, introducing curved higher-dimensional spaces that later underpinned modern differential geometry and physics.