Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/February 10
- 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.
- 1962 – "Rudolf Abel", a Soviet spy arrested by the FBI, was exchanged for Gary Powers, the pilot of a U.S. Air Force spy plane shot down in the U-2 Incident two years earlier.
- 1996 – Deep Blue defeated Garry Kasparov (pictured) 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.
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