311 CE
The Arena di Verona
is the Roman amphitheatre constructed approximately 30 CE during the reign of Emperor Tiberius — the third-largest surviving Roman amphitheatre after the Colosseum (Rome) and the Capua amphitheatre.
On this day
August 10
Cities around the world keep their histories on dates. Here is what happened on August 10 across the 3 editorial events Pyflo has so far catalogued for this date.
3 events
3 centuries
3 countries
1628
maiden voyage in Stockholm harbor on August 10, 1628
Stockholm was founded in 1252 by Birger Jarl at the strategic narrows between Lake Mälaren and the Baltic — the original city occupied just the small island of Stadsholmen (now Gamla Stan), behind defensive walls.
1809
(Quito's independence cry, 10 August 1809, is honored as the earliest in South America), though full independence wasn't achieved until
Quito was founded by the Spanish in 1534 by Sebastián de Benalcázar on the site of the destroyed Inca city of Quito — the Inca general Rumiñahui had burned the city to the ground in 1533 rather than allow it to be captured intact by the Spanish, who arrived from Peru after…
Drawn from the Pyflo Atlas — an interactive timeline of 1,601 editorial events reaching back to 2100 BCE, each pin a deep link into a city's full story. Watch history play out on the map →