15931 | February 10 | Event | 1258 – Baghdad falls to the Mongols, and the Abbasid Caliphate is destroyed. |
15932 | February 10 | Event | 1306 – In front of the high altar of Greyfriars Church in Dumfries, Robert the Bruce murders John Comyn sparking revolution in the Wars of Scottish Independence |
15933 | February 10 | Event | 1355 – The St Scholastica Day riot breaks out in Oxford, England, leaving 63 scholars and perhaps 30 locals dead in two days. |
15934 | February 10 | Event | 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. |
15935 | February 10 | Event | 1763 – French and Indian War: The Treaty of Paris ends the war and France cedes Quebec to Great Britain. |
15936 | February 10 | Event | 1814 – Napoleonic Wars: The Battle of Champaubert ends in French victory over the Russians and the Prussians. |
15937 | February 10 | Event | 1840 – Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom marries Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha. |
15938 | February 10 | Event | 1846 – First Anglo-Sikh War: Battle of Sobraon – British defeat Sikhs in final battle of the war |
15939 | February 10 | Event | 1861 – Jefferson Davis is notified by telegraph that he has been chosen as provisional President of the Confederate States of America. |
15940 | February 10 | Event | 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. |
15941 | February 10 | Event | 1870 – The YWCA is founded in New York City. |
15942 | February 10 | Event | 1906 – HMS Dreadnought, the first of a revolutionary new breed of battleships is christened and launched by King Edward VII. |
15943 | February 10 | Event | 1920 – Józef Haller de Hallenburg performs symbolic wedding of Poland to the sea, celebrating restitution of Polish access to open sea. |
15944 | February 10 | Event | 1923 – Texas Tech University is founded as Texas Technological College in Lubbock, Texas |
15945 | February 10 | Event | 1930 – Yên Bái mutiny in French Indochina |
15946 | February 10 | Event | 1933 – 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. |
15947 | February 10 | Event | 1936 – Second Italo-Abyssinian War: Italian troops launched the Battle of Amba Aradam against Ethiopian defenders. |
15948 | February 10 | Event | 1939 – Spanish Civil War: The Nationalists conclude their conquest of Catalonia and seal the border with France. |
15949 | February 10 | Event | 1940 – The Soviet Union begins mass deportations of Polish citizens from occupied eastern Poland to Siberia. |
15950 | February 10 | Event | 1942 – The first gold record is presented to Glenn Miller for "Chattanooga Choo Choo". |
15951 | February 10 | Event | 1943 – World War II: Attempting to completely lift the Siege of Leningrad, the Soviet Red Army engages German troops and Spanish volunteers in the Battle of Krasny Bor. |
15952 | February 10 | Event | 1947 – Italy cedes most of Venezia Giulia to Yugoslavia. |
15953 | February 10 | Event | 1954 – United States President Dwight Eisenhower warns against United States intervention in Vietnam. |
15954 | February 10 | Event | 1962 – Captured American U2 spy-plane pilot Gary Powers is exchanged for captured Soviet spy Rudolf Abel. |
15955 | February 10 | Event | 1962 – Roy Lichtenstein's first solo exhibition opened, and it included Look Mickey, which featured his first employment of Ben-Day dots, speech balloons and comic imagery sourcing, all of which he is now known for. |
15956 | February 10 | Event | 1964 – Melbourne–Voyager collision: The aircraft carrier HMAS Melbourne collides with and sinks the destroyer HMAS Voyager off the south coast of New South Wales, Australia, killing 82. |
15957 | February 10 | Event | 1967 – The 25th Amendment to the United States Constitution is ratified. |
15958 | February 10 | Event | 1981 – A fire at the Las Vegas Hilton hotel–casino kills eight and injures 198. |
15959 | February 10 | Event | 1989 – Ron Brown is elected chairman of the Democratic National Committee becoming the first African American to lead a major American political party. |
15960 | February 10 | Event | 1996 – The IBM supercomputer Deep Blue defeats Garry Kasparov in chess for the first time. |