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On February 10, 1258: The Siege of Baghdad ends with the surrender of the last Abbasid caliph to Hulegu Khan, a prince of the Mongol Empire.

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Featured moment · 1258

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

The Siege of Baghdad, also known as the Sack of Baghdad, took place in early 1258. A large army commanded by Hulegu, a prince of the Mongol Empire, attacked the historic capital of the Abbasid Caliphate after a series of provocations from its ruler, caliph al-Musta'sim. Within a few weeks, Baghdad fell and was sacked by the Mongol army—al-Musta'sim was killed alongside hundreds of thousands of his subjects.

People

Born on February 10

Antonio Arena 2009– Italian footballer (born 2009)
Sergio Camello 2001– Spanish footballer (born 2001)
María Carlé 2000– Argentine tennis player (born 2000)
Yara Shahidi 2000– American actress and producer (born 2000)
Tiffany Espensen 1999– American actress (born 1999)
Josh Jackson 1997– American basketball player (born 1997)
Lilly King 1997– American swimmer (born 1997)
Chloë Grace Moretz 1997– American actress (born 1997)
Nadia Podoroska 1997– Argentine tennis player (born 1997)
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Josh Rosen 1997– American football player (born 1997)
Adam Armstrong 1997– English footballer (born 1997)
Alexandar Georgiev 1996– Russian ice hockey player (born 1996)
Emanuel Mammana 1996– Argentine footballer (born 1996)
Sterling Brown 1995– American basketball player (born 1995)
Bobby Portis 1995– American basketball player (born 1995)
Carolane Soucisse 1995– Canadian-Irish ice dancer (born 1995)
Lexi Thompson 1995– American professional golfer (born 1995)
Naby Keïta 1995– Guinean footballer (born 1995)

People

Died on February 10

Jose de Venecia Jr. Filipino politician (1936–2026)
Peter Tuiasosopo American football player and actor (1963–2025)
AKA South African rapper (1988–2023)
Olsen Filipaina NZ international rugby league footballer (1957–2022)
Larry Flynt American publisher (1942–2021)
Carmen Argenziano American actor (1943–2019)
Jan-Michael Vincent American actor (1944–2019)
Mike Ilitch American businessman (1929–2017)
Fatima Surayya Bajia Pakistani writer
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Naseer Aruri Palestinian professor and author (1934–2015)
Karl Josef Becker German Catholic theologian (1928-2015)
Deng Liqun Chinese politician (1915–2015)
Stuart Hall Jamaican-British Marxist sociologist, cultural theorist, and activist (1932–2014)
Shirley Temple American actress and diplomat (1928–2014)
W. Watts Biggers American novelist
David Hartman American-Israeli philosopher (1931–2013)
Lloyd Morrison New Zealand investment banker (1957–2012)
Jeffrey Zaslow American author, and newspaper columnist (1958–2012)

Timeline

Every February 10 on record

  1. 1258 The Siege of Baghdad ends with the surrender of the last Abbasid caliph to Hulegu Khan, a prince of the Mongol Empire.

    Mongol conquest of the Abbasid Caliphate (1258)

    The Siege of Baghdad, also known as the Sack of Baghdad, took place in early 1258. A large army commanded by Hulegu, a prince of the Mongol Empire, attacked the historic capital of the Abbasid Caliphate after a series of provocations from its ruler, caliph al-Musta'sim. Within a few weeks, Baghdad fell and was sacked by the Mongol army—al-Musta'sim was killed alongside hundreds of thousands of his subjects.

  2. 1306 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.

    Town in Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland

    Dumfries is a market town and former royal burgh in Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland, near the mouth of the River Nith on the Solway Firth, 25 miles (40 km) from the Anglo-Scottish border. Dumfries is the county town of the historic county of Dumfriesshire.

  3. 1355 The St Scholastica Day riot breaks out in Oxford, England, leaving 63 scholars and perhaps 30 locals dead in two days.

    1355 riot in Oxford, England

    The St Scholastica Day riot began in Oxford, England, on 10 February 1355, the feast day of St Scholastica. The disturbance began when two students from the University of Oxford complained about the quality of wine served to them in the Swindlestock Tavern, which stood at the crossroads now known as Carfax, in the centre of the town. The students quarrelled with the taverner; the argument quickly escalated to blows.

  4. 1392 Byzantine Emperor Manuel II Palaiologos marries Helena Dragaš, daughter of the Serbian Prince Constantine Dragaš. She is crowned as empress the following day.

    Byzantine emperor from 1391 to 1425

    Manuel II Palaiologos or Palaeologus was Byzantine emperor from 1391 to 1425. Shortly before his death he was tonsured a monk and received the name Matthaios (Ματθαίος). Manuel was a vassal of the Ottoman Empire, which sometimes threatened to capture his territory outright.

  5. 1502 Vasco da Gama sets sail from Lisbon, Portugal, on his second voyage to India.

    Portuguese explorer (c. 1460s – 1524)

    Vasco da Gama was a Portuguese mariner, explorer and nobleman. His discovery of the first direct maritime route between Europe and India via the Cape of Good Hope and across the Indian Ocean from Malindi in Kenya to Kozhikode was to open up European exploration of, and commerce with, India, and is considered a landmark event and a turning point in world history.

  6. 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.
  7. 1712 Huilliches in Chiloé rebel against Spanish encomenderos.
  8. 1763 French and Indian War: The Treaty of Paris ends the war and France cedes Quebec to Great Britain.
  9. 1814 Napoleonic Wars: The Battle of Champaubert ends in French victory over the Russians and the Prussians.
  10. 1840 Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom marries Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha.
  11. 1846 First Anglo-Sikh War: Battle of Sobraon: British defeat Sikhs in the final battle of the war.
  12. 1861 Jefferson Davis is notified by telegraph that he has been chosen as provisional President of the Confederate States of America.
  13. 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.
  14. 1906 HMS Dreadnought, the first of a revolutionary new breed of battleships, is christened.
  15. 1920 Józef Haller de Hallenburg performs the symbolic wedding of Poland to the sea, celebrating restitution of Polish access to open sea.
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  1. 1920 About 75% of the population in Zone I votes to join Denmark in the 1920 Schleswig plebiscites.
  2. 1923 Texas Tech University is founded as Texas Technological College in Lubbock, Texas.
  3. 1930 The Việt Nam Quốc Dân Đảng launches the failed Yên Bái mutiny in hope of overthrowing French protectorate over Vietnam.
  4. 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.
  5. 1936 Second Italo-Abyssinian War: Italian troops launch the Battle of Amba Aradam against Ethiopian defenders.
  6. 1939 Spanish Civil War: The Nationalists conclude their conquest of Catalonia and seal the border with France.
  7. 1940 The Soviet Union begins mass deportations of Polish citizens from occupied eastern Poland to Siberia.
  8. 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.
  9. 1947 The Paris Peace Treaties are signed by Italy, Romania, Hungary, Bulgaria, Finland and the Allies of World War II.
  10. 1954 U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower warns against United States intervention in Vietnam.
  11. 1962 Cold War: Captured American U2 spy-plane pilot Gary Powers is exchanged for captured Soviet spy Rudolf Abel.
  12. 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.
  13. 1967 The 25th Amendment to the United States Constitution is ratified.
  14. 1972 Ras Al Khaimah joins the United Arab Emirates, now making up seven emirates.
  15. 1984 Kenyan soldiers kill an estimated 5,000 ethnic Somali Kenyans in the Wagalla massacre.

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