On February 10, history records 36 notable events, 165 famous births and 71 deaths, spanning the years 1258 to 1862.
Events on this day include: Baghdad falls to the Mongols, and the Abbasid Caliphate is destroyed. (1258); 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 (1306).
Notable people born on February 10 include George of the Palatinate (1486), Thomas Platter (1499), Domenico Bollani (1514).
Notable figures who died on this day include Scholastica (547), William IX, Duke of Aquitaine (1126), Baldwin III of Jerusalem (1162).
Events on 10 February 36
See all →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
The St Scholastica Day riot breaks out in Oxford, England, leaving 63 scholars and perhaps 30 locals dead in two days.
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.
French and Indian War: The Treaty of Paris ends the war and France cedes Quebec to Great Britain.
Napoleonic Wars: The Battle of Champaubert ends in French victory over the Russians and the Prussians.
Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom marries Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha.
First Anglo-Sikh War: Battle of Sobraon: British defeat Sikhs in final battle of the war
Jefferson Davis is notified by telegraph that he has been chosen as provisional President of the Confederate States of America.
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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Birthdays on 10 February 165
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Deaths on 10 February 71
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