Template:On this day - February 10

Gaspar de Zúñiga Acevedo y Velasco

• 1519 – From the island of Cuba, Hernán Cortés and Pedro de Alvarado set out for Yucatán (Gulf of Mexico) with an expedition of 600 men under the orders of Diego Velázquez de Cuéllar (Governor of Cuba).
• 1606 – Death of Gaspar de Zúñiga Acevedo y Velasco, 9th Viceroy of New Spain and 10th Viceroy of Peru (b. 1560).
• 1622 – In Madrid, the King fines the Marquises of Cañete 3,000 ducats and banishes them from the city for having mistreated some servants.
• 1763 – The Treaty of Paris is signed in Paris, ending the Seven Years' War, by which France and Spain suffer territorial losses in favor of the Kingdom of Great Britain.
• 1798 – Death of Juan Pablo Vizcardo, supposed author of the widely circulated "Carta a los españoles americanos", published posthumously, in which he urged the Hispanic Americans to become independent from the Spanish Crown (b. 1748).
• 1805 – In Spain, King Charles IV abolishes bullfights by Royal Decree.
• 1821 – In Mexico, the Embrace of Acatempan takes place between Agustín de Iturbide and Vicente Guerrero, sealing peace between the viceregal and the insurgent troops.
• 1862 – France, Spain and the United Kingdom sign with the Mexican President Benito Juárez the Convention of La Soledad, by which the military action of the three powers in Mexico was suspended. The Treaty was later broken by France, starting the Second French Intervention.
• 1874 – On the Atlantic coast of the Province of Buenos Aires (Argentina), the town of Mar del Plata is founded.
• 1914 – In Ecuador, government forces seize the town of Esmeraldas, which had joined the uprising in support of Colonel Carlos Concha Torres.
• 1958 – In Morocco, the conversion of Spanish currency into Moroccan francs begins; 10 francs equal 1 peseta.
• 1966 – In Spain, the Royal Spanish Academy accepts new words, such as alunizar (to land on the Moon), audiovisual and historicismo.
• 1992 – Death of Father Llanos, the Red Priest, Spanish Jesuit priest (b. 1906).
• 1995 – During the Cenepa War, the Air Force of Ecuador shoots down two aircraft of the Air Force of Peru.
• 2013 – Death of Eugenio Trías, Spanish philosopher, considered the most important thinker writing in Spanish since Ortega y Gasset (b. 1942).
• 2023 – Death of Carlos Saura, Spanish film director, photographer and writer (b. 1932).