On this day: February 10

Events on February 10

• 1220 Mongol invasion of the Khwarazmian Empire: the city of Bukhara was captured and looted by the Mongol army of Genghis Khan. Wikipedia
• 1258 The last Abbasid caliph surrendered Baghdad to the besieging Mongol army of Hulegu Khan, who later sacked the city, killing hundreds of thousands of people. Wikipedia
• 1355 A tavern dispute between students of the University of Oxford and townspeople in Oxford became a riot that left about 90 people dead. Wikipedia
• 1355 The St Scholastica Day riot breaks out in Oxford, England, leaving 63 scholars and perhaps 30 locals dead in two days. Wikipedia
• 1502 Vasco da Gama sets sail from Lisbon, Portugal, on his second voyage to India. Wikipedia
• 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. Wikipedia
• 1763 French and Indian War: The Treaty of Paris ends the war and France cedes Quebec to Great Britain. Wikipedia
• 1814 War of the Sixth Coalition: A French army led by Napoleon effectively destroyed a small Russian corps commanded by Zakhar Dmitrievich Olsufiev. Wikipedia
• 1814 Napoleonic Wars: The Battle of Champaubert ends in French victory over the Russians and the Prussians. Wikipedia
• 1840 Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha and Queen Victoria married at the Chapel Royal in St James's Palace, London, with Albert being granted the title prince consort. Wikipedia
• 1840 Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom marries Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha. Wikipedia
• 1862 American Civil War: A Union naval flotilla destroyed the bulk of the Confederate Mosquito Fleet in the Battle of Elizabeth City on the Pasquotank River in North Carolina. Wikipedia
• 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. Wikipedia
• 1920 About 75% of the population in Zone I votes to join Denmark in the 1920 Schleswig plebiscites. Wikipedia
• 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. Wikipedia
• 1940 The Soviet Union begins mass deportations of Polish citizens from occupied eastern Poland to Siberia. Wikipedia
• 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. Wikipedia
• 1954 U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower warns against United States intervention in Vietnam. Wikipedia
• 1962 Cold War: Captured American U2 spy-plane pilot Gary Powers is exchanged for captured Soviet spy Rudolf Abel. Wikipedia
• 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. Wikipedia
• 1972 Ras Al Khaimah joins the United Arab Emirates, now making up seven emirates. Wikipedia
• 1989 Ron Brown is elected chairman of the Democratic National Committee, becoming the first African American to lead a major American political party. Wikipedia
• 1996 Deep Blue defeated Garry Kasparov in a game of chess, the first ever game won by a chess-playing computer against a World Chess Champion under chess tournament conditions. Wikipedia
• 2003 France and Belgium break the NATO procedure of silent approval concerning the timing of protective measures for Turkey in case of a possible war with Iraq. Wikipedia
• 2016 South Korea decides to stop the operation of the Kaesong joint industrial complex with North Korea in response to the launch of Kwangmyŏngsŏng-4. Wikipedia
• 2018 Nineteen people are killed and 66 injured when a Kowloon Motor Bus double decker on route 872 in Hong Kong overturns. Wikipedia

Born on February 10

• 1775 Charles Lamb, English poet and essayist (died 1834) Wikipedia
• 1843 Adelina Patti, Italian-French opera singer (died 1919) Wikipedia
• 1859 Alexandre Millerand, French lawyer and politician, 12th President of France (died 1943) Wikipedia
• 1890 Boris Pasternak, Russian poet, novelist, and literary translator Nobel Prize laureate (died 1960) Wikipedia
• 1894 Harold Macmillan, English captain and politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (died 1986) Wikipedia
• 1897 John Franklin Enders, American virologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1985) Wikipedia
• 1898 Bertolt Brecht, German director, playwright, and poet (died 1956) Wikipedia
• 1899 Cevdet Sunay, Turkish general and politician, 5th President of Turkey (died 1982) Wikipedia
• 1902 Walter Houser Brattain, Chinese-American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1987) Wikipedia
• 1905 Walter A. Brown, American businessman, founded the Boston Celtics (died 1964) Wikipedia
• 1910 Dominique Pire, Belgian friar, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1969) Wikipedia
• 1929 Jerry Goldsmith, American composer and conductor (died 2004) Wikipedia
• 1937 Roberta Flack, American singer-songwriter and pianist (died 2025) Wikipedia
• 1950 Mark Spitz, American swimmer Wikipedia
• 1952 Lee Hsien Loong, Singaporean general and politician, 3rd Prime Minister of Singapore Wikipedia
• 1962 Cliff Burton, American musician and songwriter (died 1986) Wikipedia
• 1967 Laura Dern, American actress, director, and producer Wikipedia
• 1974 Elizabeth Banks, American actress Wikipedia
• 1986 Radamel Falcao, Colombian footballer Wikipedia
• 1991 Emma Roberts, American actress Wikipedia
• 1994 Kang Seul-gi, South Korean singer Wikipedia
• 1997 Chloë Grace Moretz, American actress Wikipedia

Died on February 10

• 547 Scholastica, Christian nun Wikipedia
• 1567 Henry Stuart, Lord Darnley, consort of Mary, Queen of Scots (born 1545) Wikipedia
• 1755 Montesquieu, French lawyer and philosopher (born 1689) Wikipedia
• 1829 Pope Leo XII (born 1760) Wikipedia
• 1837 Alexander Pushkin, Russian poet and author (born 1799) Wikipedia
• 1891 Sofia Kovalevskaya, Russian-Swedish mathematician and physicist (born 1850) Wikipedia
• 1912 Joseph Lister, 1st Baron Lister, English surgeon and academic (born 1827) Wikipedia
• 1918 Ernesto Teodoro Moneta, Italian soldier and journalist, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1833) Wikipedia
• 1918 Abdul Hamid II, Ottoman sultan (born 1842) Wikipedia
• 1923 Wilhelm Röntgen, German physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1845) Wikipedia
• 1939 Pope Pius XI (born 1857) Wikipedia
• 2000 Jim Varney, American actor, comedian and writer (born 1949) Wikipedia
• 2005 Arthur Miller, American actor, playwright, and author (born 1915) Wikipedia
• 2014 Shirley Temple, American actress and diplomat (born 1928) Wikipedia

Holidays and observances

• Christian feast day: Austrebertha Wikipedia
• Christian feast day: Charalambos Wikipedia
• Christian feast day: Blessed Eusebia Palomino Yenes Wikipedia
• Christian feast day: José Sánchez del Río Wikipedia
• Christian feast day: Scholastica Wikipedia
• Christian feast day: February 10 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics) Wikipedia
• Feast of St. Paul's Shipwreck (Malta) Wikipedia
• Fenkil Day(commemoration of the Second Battle of Massawa) (Eritrea) Wikipedia
• Kurdish Authors Union Day (Iraqi Kurdistan) Wikipedia
• National Memorial Day of the Exiles and Foibe (Italy) Wikipedia
• Arabian Leopard Day Wikipedia

The events, births, deaths and observances above are from the English Wikipedia article “February 10” and the articles it links to (authors and history), retrieved 2026-10-09 through the Wikimedia “On this day” feed. They are licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0; this selection is shared under the same licence. We picked the 26 events, 22 births and 14 deaths with the widest coverage across Wikipedia's language editions (counted from Wikidata) and sorted them by year; the wording is unchanged apart from removing references to pictures.