July 10

The emperor Hadrian, a noted patron of Greek learning, died at Baiae on the Bay of Naples after a long illness.

On Hadrian's death, his adopted heir Antoninus Pius began a reign later remembered for its long stretch of internal peace.

The reformer John Calvin, later the principal shaper of Reformed theology in Geneva, was born in Noyon in northern France.

Karl Richard Lepsius, whose Prussian expedition produced the monumental survey 'Denkmaeler aus Aegypten und Aethiopien,' died in Berlin.