April 10 First-edition cover of The Great Gatsby 1809 – Napoleonic Wars: The War of the Fifth Coalition began with the Austrian invasion of Bavaria, then a client state of France. 1815 – Mount Tambora in Indonesia began the most powerful volcanic eruption in recorded history, killing at least 71,000 people and affecting temperatures worldwide. 1925 – The Great Gatsby (cover pictured), a novel by American author F. Scott Fitzgerald, was first published by Scribner's. 1970 – In the midst of business disagreements with his bandmates, Paul McCartney announced his departure from the Beatles. 2019 – Scientists from the Event Horizon Telescope project released the first image of the black hole at the center of the galaxy M87. Michael Tarchaniota Marullus (d. 1500)Samuel Hahnemann (b. 1755)Kishori Amonkar (b. 1932) More anniversaries: April 9 April 10 April 11 Archive By email List of days of the year About