What happened on 10 February?

9 events from the Ever-When timeline, ranked by how much they mattered.

1. 1763 Treaty of Paris ends the Seven Years' War France cedes Canada and abandons its ambitions in India (keeping only trading posts); Britain becomes the dominant colonial power.
2. 1949 Death of a Salesman Arthur Miller's tragedy of Willy Loman; benchmark of post-war American drama.
3. 1519 Cortés sails in defiance of orders With Cuba's governor rescinding his commission even as the ships load, Hernán Cortés puts to sea anyway — eleven ships, five hundred men, sixteen horses, and no legal authority wha
4. 1846 Anglo-Sikh War (Sobraon) British defeat the Sikh army at Sobraon, ending the First Anglo-Sikh War; Punjab annexed after the second war in 1849.
5. 1840 Marriage of Victoria and Albert Queen Victoria marries Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha; partnership shapes the early Victorian era.
6. 1906 HMS Dreadnought launched Britain's all-big-gun battleship makes every other warship obsolete overnight, fuelling the Anglo-German naval arms race.
7. 1898 Born: Bertolt Brecht German playwright of The Threepenny Opera; inventor of epic theatre.
8. 1814 Napoleon's Six Days' Campaign Outnumbered five to one in the fields of Champagne, Napoleon wins four battles in six days with an army of teenagers — the 'Marie-Louises' — mauling Blücher's army corps by corps.
9. 1567 Murder of Lord Darnley Henry Stuart, Lord Darnley — husband of Mary, Queen of Scots — is found strangled after an explosion at Kirk o' Field in Edinburgh. Suspicion falls on the Earl of Bothwell and on M