Year 1616
British ambassador Sir Thomas Roe visited Ajmer at the court of Mughal ruler Jahangir.
FEBRUARY 10
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10 February: What Happened On This Day in History
Curated historical timeline of momentous political pacts, freedom struggle uprisings, constitutional developments, scientific breakthroughs, and prominent birthdays recorded on 10 February.
Year 1763
End of French-Indian War by Treaty of Paris.
Year 1818
Third and final battle between the British and Marathas was fought at Rampur.
Year 1846
The British defeated the Sikhs at the Battle of Sobraon.
Year 1918
Soviet leader Lian Trotsky announced that Russia withdrew from World War I.
Year 1929
J. R. D. Tata became the first authorized Indian pilot.
Year 1931
The Indian capital shifted from Kolkata to New Delhi.
Year 1933
German dictator Hitler announced the end of Marxism.
Year 1949
Vinayak Savarkar was acquitted of the Gandhi assassination charge.
Year 1502
Vasco da Gama sets sail from Lisbon, Portugal, on his second voyage to India.
Year 1763
French and Indian War: The Treaty of Paris ends the war and France cedes Quebec to Great Britain.
Year 2013
Thirty-six people are killed and 39 others are injured in a stampede in Allahabad, India, during the Kumbh Mela festival.
Born 1803
Jagannath Shankarsheth Murkute, an Indian philanthropist and educationalist.
Born 1894
Harold Macmillan, the former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
Born 1910
Durga Bhagwat, an Indian scholar, socialist, and writer.
Born 1945
Rajesh Pilot, an Indian politician.
Born 1946
Sarah Joseph, an Indian novelist and short story writer in Malayalam.
Born 1970
Kumar Vishwas, an Indian Hindi poet, politician, and lecturer.
Born 1995
Carolane Soucisse, Canadian ice dancer
Born 1996
Emanuel Mammana, Argentinian footballer
Born 1997
Lilly King, American swimmer
Born 1997
Chloë Grace Moretz, American actress
Born 1997
Nadia Podoroska, Argentinian tennis player
Born 2000
Yara Shahidi, American actress and model
Died 1865
Heinrich Friedrich Emil Lenz, a Russian physicist.
Died 1912
Joseph Lister, a British surgeon and a pioneer of antiseptic surgery.
Died 1923
Wilhelm Röntgen, a German mechanical engineer and physicist.
Died 1953
N. Ayyangar Gopalaswami Ayyangar, Member of the Drafting Committee of the Constitution of India.
Died 1957
Laura Ingalls Wilder, an American writer.
Died 2016
Fatima Surayya Bajia, Indian-Pakistani author and playwright (b. 1930)
Died 2017
Mike Ilitch, American businessman (b. 1929)
Died 2019
Carmen Argenziano, American actor (b. 1943)
Died 2019
Jan-Michael Vincent, American actor (b. 1944)