Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/February 10
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This is a list of selected February 10 anniversaries that appears on the "On this day" section of the Main Page. To suggest a new item, in most cases you can be bold and edit this page. Please read the selected anniversaries guidelines before making your edit. However, if your addition may be controversial, or on a day that is or soon will be on the Main Page, please post your suggestion on the talk page instead.
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- 1567 – After an explosion destroyed the house in Kirk o' Field, Edinburgh where he was staying, the strangled body of Henry Stuart, Lord Darnley, the King consort of Scotland, was found in a nearby orchard.
- 1763 – Britain and Spain partitioned New France by the Treaty of Paris, which ended the French and Indian War and the Seven Years' War, and markedly reduced the size of the French colonial empire.
- 1840 – Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha married Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom at the Chapel Royal.
- 1996 – Deep Blue defeated Garry Kasparov in a game of chess, the first game won by a chess-playing computer against a reigning International Grandmaster and World Chess Champion under chess tournament conditions.
- 2008 – A fire (pictured) destroys South Korea's first national treasure, Namdaemun.
More events: February 9 – February 10 – February 11
