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10 February| 10 February 1763 | UK, France, Spain, Cuba, India, America, Philippines [treaties] | The Treaty of Paris between Britain, France, and Spain ends the Seven Years' War. By its terms, Britain secures Canada, Nova Scotia, Cape Breton, St Vincent, Tobago, Dominica, Grenada, Senegal, and Minorca from France. France regains Martinique, Guadeloupe, St Lucia, Gorée, and the French settlements in India, and is guaranteed fishing rights off Newfoundland. Spain acquires Louisiana from France, and cedes Florida to Britain in exchange for the restoration of Cuba and the Philippines. | | 10 February 1824 | Peru [administration] | The South American revolutionary leader Simón Bolívar is proclaimed emperor of Peru. | | 10 February 1890 | USA [law and government] | The US government opens 11 million acres of South Dakota land, formerly under the possession of the Sioux, to settlement. | | 10 February 1894 | England [births and deaths] | Harold Macmillan, British politician, Conservative prime minister 1957–63, born in London, England (–1986). | | 10 February 1898 | Germany [births and deaths] | Bertolt Brecht, German poet and playwright, born in Augsburg, Germany (–1956). | | 10 February 1906 | United Kingdom [ships and shipping] | The British battleship HMS Dreadnought is launched at Portsmouth, England. Its massive armament (10 30 cm/12 in guns and 24 12-pounder guns) makes all other warships obsolete and its name becomes a generic term for battleships with large-calibre armament. | | 10 February 1947 | France, Italy, Greece, Yugoslavia, Romania, USSR, Bulgaria, Hungary, Finland [treaties] | By a treaty signed in Paris, France, Italy loses the Dodecanese Islands to Greece and border territories to France and Yugoslavia; Romania loses Bessarabia and North Bukovina to the USSR but regains Transylvania; Bulgaria retains South Dobrudja; Hungary regains its 1938 frontiers; and Finland cedes Petsamo (now Pechenga) to the USSR. | | 10 February 1985 | South Africa [political events] | The imprisoned African National Congress (ANC) leader Nelson Mandela refuses the South African government's offer of freedom, conditional on his renunciation of violence as a means to political change in the country. | | 10 February 2005 | USA [births and deaths] | Arthur Miller, prolific US prize-winning playwright, most famous for Death of a Salesman and The Crucible, dies in Roxbury, Connecticut (89). | | 10–26 February 2006 | Italy [Olympic Games] | The 20th Winter Olympic Games are held in Turin, Italy, attended by 2,573 competitors representing 80 National Olympic Committees. Germany wins 11 gold medals, the USA and Austria each win 9, Russia wins 8, and Sweden and Canada each win 7. Great Britain wins one silver medal in the women's bob skeleton event. |
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