Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/February 10

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  HMAS Melbourne
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  Prince Albert, consort of Queen Victoria
• The fire at Namdaemun in 2008
  The fire at Namdaemun in 2008
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  HMS Dreadnought

• 1258 – Hulagu Khan and the Mongols sacked and burned Baghdad, a cultural and commercial centre of the Islamic world at the time, ending the rule of the Abbasid caliphate.
• 1840 – Prince AlbertofSaxe-Coburg-Gotha married Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom at the Chapel Royal, becoming prince-consort.
• 1862 – American Civil War: A Union naval flotilla destroyed the bulk of the Confederate Mosquito Fleet in the Battle of Elizabeth City on the Pasquotank RiverinNorth Carolina.
• 1906 – The Royal Navy battleship HMS Dreadnought was launched, representing such a marked advance in naval technology that her name came to be associated with an entire generation of battleships.
• 1930 – The Viet Nam Quoc Dan Dang launched the failed Yên Bái mutiny in the hope of ending French colonial rule in Vietnam.
• 1939 – Spanish Civil War: The Nationalists concluded their conquest of Catalonia and sealed the border with France.
• 1962 – Roy Lichtenstein's first solo exhibition opened, and it included Look Mickey, which featured his first employment of Ben-Day dots, speech balloons and comic imagery sourcing, all of which he is now known for.
• 1964 – The Royal Australian Navy aircraft carrier HMAS Melbourne collided with and sank the destroyer HMAS VoyagerinJervis Bay, Australia, killing 82 of Voyager's personnel.
• 2008 – The Namdaemun gate in Seoul, the first of South Korea's National Treasures, was severely damaged by arson.

February 10: Ash Wednesday in Western Christianity (2016); Feast of Saint Paul's Shipwreck in Malta

• 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, France, and Spain signed the Treaty of Paris to end the Seven Years' War, significantly reducing the size of the French colonial empire while at the same time marking the beginning of an extensive period of British dominance outside of Europe.
• 1936 – Second Italo-Abyssinian War: The Battle of Amba Aradam began, ending nine days later in a decisive tactical victory for Italy and the neutralisation of almost the entire Ethiopian army as a fighting force.
• 1962 – "Rudolf Abel" (pictured on stamp), a Soviet spy arrested by the FBI, was exchanged for Gary Powers, the pilot of the CIA spy plane that had been shot down over Soviet airspace two years earlier.
• 2009 – The first accidental hypervelocity collision between two intact satellitesinlow Earth orbit took place when Iridium 33 and Kosmos-2251 collided and destroyed each other.