Like today, February 10, 2022


1258: Baghdad is occupied by the Mongols and the Abbasid Caliphate is destroyed. 1306 – Robert Bruce assassinates John Commin in Dumfries, triggering the Scottish Revolution for independence. 1335: On the day of the feast of St. Scholastic, episodes break out in Oxford between students and locals. Cause, the quality of the beer in a pub and the offensive comments of some students about the locals. The riots will end the next day with 63 students dead and 30 civilians. 1634: “And yet it moves!”, Whispers Galileo, while a few minutes earlier, kneeling before the examiners, old and helpless, he renounces his theory as heretical and erroneous and accepts that the earth is motionless and flat. 1763: The Treaty of Paris ends the war and France cedes the province of Quebec to Great Britain. 1828: During the Greek Revolution of 1821, Ibrahim destroys Tripoli. 1846 – Battle of Sobraon takes place. The British defeat the Sikhs in the last battle of the First World War between the two sides. 1904: The Russo-Japanese War breaks out in the disputed territories of Korea and Manchuria. 1936: The […]
Source: News Beast

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