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Fall of Baghdad: Mongol Invasion 1258 (+ 11 more historical events on this day!)
A Daily Dose of History (10 Feb 2025)
Today's historical events:
Mongol invasions: Baghdad falls to the Mongols, bringing the Islamic Golden Age to an end.
In front of the high altar of Greyfriars Church in Dumfries, Robert the Bruce murders John Comyn, sparking the revolution in the Wars of Scottish Independence.
The St Scholastica Day riot breaks out in Oxford, England, leaving 63 scholars and perhaps 30 locals dead in two days.
Vasco da Gama sets sail from Lisbon, Portugal, on his second voyage to India.
Lord Darnley, second husband of Mary, Queen of Scots, is found strangled following an…
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