Events on 10 February 36
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In front of the high altar of Greyfriar's Church in Dumfries, Robert the Bruce murders John Comyn sparking revolution in the Wars of Scottish Independence
Year 1355
The St Scholastica Day riot breaks out in Oxford, England, leaving 63 scholars and perhaps 30 locals dead in two days.
Year 1567
Lord Darnley, second husband of Mary, Queen of Scots, is found strangled following an explosion at the Kirk o' Field house in Edinburgh, Scotland, a suspected assassination.
Year 1763
French and Indian War: The Treaty of Paris ends the war and France cedes Quebec to Great Britain.
Year 1814
Napoleonic Wars: The Battle of Champaubert ends in French victory over the Russians and the Prussians.
Year 1840
Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom marries Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha.
Year 1846
First Anglo-Sikh War: Battle of Sobraon: British defeat Sikhs in final battle of the war
Year 1861
Jefferson Davis is notified by telegraph that he has been chosen as provisional President of the Confederate States of America.
Year 1862
American Civil War: A Union naval flotilla destroys the bulk of the Confederate Mosquito Fleet in the Battle of Elizabeth City on the Pasquotank River in North Carolina.
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Deaths on 10 February 71
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