A Daily Dose of History (10 Feb 2024) Today's historical events:

• Mongol invasions: Baghdad falls to the Mongols, bringing the Islamic Golden Age to an end.
• 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 St Scholastica Day riot breaks out in Oxford, England, leaving 63 scholars and perhaps 30 locals dead in two days.
• Vasco da Gama sets sail from Lisbon, Portugal, on his second voyage to India.
• 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.
• French and Indian War: The Treaty of Paris ends the war and France cedes Quebec to Great Britain.
• Napoleonic Wars: The Battle of Champaubert ends in French victory over the Russians and the Prussians.
• Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom marries Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha.
• First Anglo-Sikh War: Battle of Sobraon: British defeat Sikhs in the final battle of the war.
• Jefferson Davis is notified by telegraph that he has been chosen as provisional President of the Confederate States of America.

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