Historical Events on February 10.

1.  1616, 10th Feb: British ambassador Sir Thomas Roe visited Ajmer at the court of Mughal ruler Jahangir.

2.  1763, 10th Feb: End of French-Indian War by Treaty of Paris.

3.  1818, 10th Feb: Third and final battle between the British and Marathas fought at Rampur.

4.  1846, 10th Feb: The British defeated the Sikhs at the Battle of Sobraon.

5.  1918, 10th Feb: Soviet leader Lian Trotsky announced that Russia withdrawing from World War I.

6.  1929, 10th Feb: J. R. D. Tata became the first authorized Indian pilot.

7.  1931, 10th Feb: The Indian capital shifted from Kolkata to New Delhi.

8.  1933, 10th Feb: German dictator Hitler announced the end of Marxism.

9.  1949, 10th Feb: Vinayak Savarkar acquitted of the Gandhi assassination charge.

Famous Birthdays & Birth Anniversaries on February 10.

1.  1803: Jagannath Shankarsheth Murkute, an Indian philanthropist and educationalist.

2.  1894: Harold Macmillan, the former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.

3.  1910: Durga Bhagwat, an Indian scholar, socialist, and writer.

4.  1945: Rajesh Pilot, an Indian politician.

5.  1946: Sarah Joseph, an Indian novelist and short story writer in Malayalam. 

6.  1970: Kumar Vishwas, an Indian Hindi poet, politician, and a lecturer.

Death Anniversaries of famous people on February 10.

1.  1865: Heinrich Friedrich Emil Lenz, a Russian physicist.

2.  1912: Joseph Lister, a British surgeon and a pioneer of antiseptic surgery.

3.  1923: Wilhelm Röntgen, a German mechanical engineer and physicist.

4.  1953: N. Ayyangar Gopalaswami Ayyangar, Member of the Drafting Committee of the Constitution of India.

5.  1957: Laura Ingalls Wilder, an American writer.

10-February-1691

Job Charnock established the first English factory in Calcutta.

10-February-1803

Jagannath Sunkerseth, great social worker, education lover and one of the sculptors of modern Mumbai, was born.

10-February-1806

Father Kuriakose Elias Chavara, freedom fighter and social reformer, was born at Kainakary , Kerala.

10-February-1846

British forces under Hugh Gough defeated Sikhs in the Battle of Sobrahan in India.

10-February-1859

General Horsford defeats Begum of Oude & Nana Sahib in Indian mutiny.

10-February-1897

Sannidhanam Suryanarayana Sastry, educationist and writer, was born at Chiriwada, (A.P).

10-February-1902

Hemraj, politician, was born at Dera Gopipur, (H.P.).

10-February-1910

Smt. Durga Bhagwat, veteran Marathi writer, was born.

10-February-1916

Revolutionary Sohanlal Pathak hanged.

10-February-1921

Mahatma Gandhi inaugurated Kashi Vidya Peeth.

10-February-1921

Wilhelm Conrad Von Roentgen, professor and nobel prize winner, passed away.

10-February-1926

Rajmata Krishna Kumari, social worker, was born at Dharangadhra.

10-February-1927

Dashrathi (Dashrathi Krishnamacharya), famous Telgu poet, was born.

10-February-1930

Shrikant Kirloskar, director of 'Kirloskar Udyog Samuh', was born.

10-February-1931

Capital of India shifted from Old Delhi to New Delhi, formal inauguration of New Delhi City took place.

10-February-1943

Gandhi begins hunger strike to protest imprisonment. This strike lasted for 21 days till March 3.

10-February-1944

Japanese troops take the Ngakyedauk Pass, cutting off the 7th Indian Division at Sinzweya, Burma.

10-February-1946

Gandhiji revives 'Harijan' and allied group of weekly journals.

10-February-1949

Pune University' established.

10-February-1957

Pranab Pankaj Roy, cricketer (son of Pankaj, Indian batsman 1982), was born in Calcutta.

10-February-1961

P. L. Deshpande played first solo drama 'Batatyachi Chawl'.

10-February-1979

Itanagar was declared as capital of Arunachal Pradesh.

10-February-1982

K. R. Meher-Homji, cricket wicket keeper (one Test, one catch, no stumps), passed away.

10-February-1986

Pope John Paul II ends visit to India.

10-February-1990

Saroj Mukherjee, WB's CPI(M) secretary, died.

10-February-1992

Andaman and Nicobar Islands opened for foreign travellers.

10-February-1995

PM appoints Madhavrao Scindia as Human Resource Minister, Pranab Mukherjee as External Minister, Buta Singh as Civil Supplies, Ajit Singh as Food, and P. Chidambaram as Commerce Minister.

10-February-1999

P. Gopi Chand (A.P.) and Aparna Popat (Karnataka) won the men's and women's singles titles respectively in the National badminton championship in Delhi.