WHAT HAPPENED ON 10. FEBRUARY
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Baghdad falls to the Mongols, and the Abbasid Caliphate is destroyed. (10. February 1258)

In front of the high altar of Greyfriars Church in Dumfries, Robert the Bruce murders John Comyn sparking revolution in the Scottish Wars of Independence (10. February 1306)

The St. Scholastica's Day riot breaks out in Oxford, England, leaving 63 scholars and perhaps 30 locals dead in two days. (10. February 1355)

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. (10. February 1567)

French and Indian War: The 1763 Treaty of Paris ends the war and France cedes Quebec to Great Britain. (10. February 1763)

Louis Alexandre Berthier invades Rome, proclaims a Roman Republic on February 15 and then on February 20 takes Pope Pius VI prisoner. (10. February 1798)

Napoleonic Wars: The Battle of Champaubert ends in French victory over the Russians and the Prussians. (10. February 1814)

Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom marries Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha. (10. February 1840)

First Anglo-Sikh War: Battle of Sobraon – British defeat Sikhs in final battle of the war (10. February 1846)

Jefferson Davis is notified by telegraph that he has been chosen as provisional President of the Confederate States of America. (10. February 1861)

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. (10. February 1862)

The YWCA is founded in New York City. (10. February 1870)

HMS Dreadnought, the first of a revolutionary new breed of battleships is christened and launched by King Edward VII. (10. February 1906)

Jozef Haller de Hallenburg performs symbolic wedding of Poland to the sea, celebrating restitution of Polish access to open sea. (10. February 1920)

Texas Tech University is founded as Texas Technological College in Lubbock, Texas (10. February 1923)

Yên Bái mutiny in French Indochina (10. February 1930)

In round 13 of a boxing match at New York City's Madison Square Garden, Primo Carnera knocks out Ernie Schaaf. Schaaf dies four days later. (10. February 1933)

Second Italo-Abyssinian War: Italian troops launched the Battle of Amba Aradam against Ethiopian defenders. (10. February 1936)

Spanish Civil War: The Nationalists conclude their conquest of Catalonia and seal the border with France. (10. February 1939)

The Soviet Union begins mass deportations of Polish citizens from occupied eastern Poland to Siberia. (10. February 1940)