On This Day: February 10th

Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom marries Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha.

Napoleonic Wars: The Battle of Champaubert ends in French victory over the Russians and the Prussians.

French and Indian War: The Treaty of Paris ends the war and France cedes Quebec to Great Britain.

Huilliches in Chiloé rebel against Spanish encomenderos.

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.

Vasco da Gama sets sail from Lisbon, Portugal, on his second voyage to India.

Byzantine Emperor Manuel II Palaiologos marries Helena Dragaš, daughter of the Serbian Prince Constantine Dragaš. She is crowned as empress the following day.

The St Scholastica Day riot breaks out in Oxford, England, leaving 63 scholars and perhaps 30 locals dead in two days.

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

The Siege of Baghdad ends with the surrender of the last Abbasid caliph to Hulegu Khan, a prince of the Mongol Empire.