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February 2 in history

239 sourced entries recorded on February 2, from 450 CE to 2024 CE. Every line is quoted from the revision it came from.

Events

  • 506King Alaric II issues the "Lex Romana Visigothorum" or Breviary of Alaric, an abstract of Roman laws and imperial decrees, compiled by a commission appointed to provide a law code for Alaric's Roman subjects. The "Lex Romana" will be the standard for justice in the Visigothic realm.source
  • 871Franco-Lombard forces, aided by a Croatian fleet (of Sclaveni), led by Emperor Louis II, capture Bari, capital of the Emirate of Bari in Southern Italy.source
  • 880Battle of Lüneburg Heath: King Louis III is defeated by the Norse Great Heathen Army at Lüneburg Heath. The Saxons are routed in a snowstorm; many drown in the river or are captured during the retreat.source
  • 962King Otto I (the Great) is crowned Holy Roman Emperor by Pope John XII at the Old St. Peter's Basilica, ending Rome's feudal anarchy. Otto's wife Adelaide is anointed as empress; the East Frankish Kingdom and the Kingdom of Italy are unified into a common realm, called the Roman Empire.source
  • 1033Emperor Conrad II (the Elder) holds an assembly at the Abbey of Payerne and is crowned King of Burgundy. He claims dominion over the Kingdom of Burgundy which is incorporated into the Holy Roman Empire.source
  • 1074Treaty of Gerstungen: King Henry IV is forced to restore the peace with Duke Otto of Nordheim (one of the Saxon leaders of the Saxon Rebellion). He signs a treaty in Gerstungen Castle, on the River Werra in Thuringia (modern Germany).source
  • 1091King William II of England invades western Normandy with a large army. His brothers, Henry and Robert Curthose, mobilize mercenary forces to resist him during a siege at Mont-Saint-Michel. Under terms of the Treaty of Caen, estates on the Cotentin Peninsula of Normandy are surrendered to William, matters being concluded in August.source
  • 1106A comet (the Great Comet of 1106) is seen and reported by several civilisations around the world. Lasting for 40 days, the comet grows steadily in brightness until finally fading away.source
  • 1141The Anarchy in the Kingdom of England – Battle of Lincoln: Robert, 1st Earl of Gloucester and Empress Matilda wrest control of the throne of England from King Stephen, who is captured and imprisoned.source
  • 1207Terra Mariana (or Medieval Livonia), comprising modern-day Estonia and Latvia, is established as a principality of the Holy Roman Empire. During its existence there is a constant struggle over supremacy between the lands ruled by the Teutonic Order, the secular German nobility, and the citizens of the Hanseatic towns of Riga and Reval.source
  • 1223End of the 5 month-long precipitation in Ireland According to the Annals of Loch Cé.source
  • 1223Ireland enjoys its first dry day in almost five months, as rains that had started on September 14 halt by the celebration of the Purification of St. Mary, as noted by The Annals of Loch Se.source
  • 1309At Avignon, Pope Clement V begins the investigation and posthumous trial of the late Pope Boniface VIII, who was accused of heresy and sodomy after his death in 1303, in papers circulated by Guillaume de Nogaret.source
  • 1347The Byzantine civil war of 1341–1347 between John VI Kantakouzenos and the regency for John V Palaiologos ends with Kantakouzenos entering Constantinople.source
  • 1348Battle of Strėva: the Teutonic Order secure a victory over the Grand Duchy of Lithuania. Sources tell of a blow to Lithuanian leadership, one that the Teutonic Order could not fully make use of due to the Black Death.source
  • 1383The Doge of Genoa agrees to release King James I of Cyprus from captivity in return for an agreement that the King's son, Janus, will become the new prisoner.source
  • 1388Queen Margaret I of Denmark is proclaimed the Queen of Norway after the death of her son, Olav IV Haakonsson.source
  • 1428The Catalonia earthquake takes place in the Catalonian region of Spain during Candlemas, estimated later at 6.5 magnitude, with extreme damage to the city of Roussillon and to the village of Queralbs. The quake collapses a church in Puigcerdà, killing more than 100 people, and 1,000 overall.source
  • 1435The Kingdom of Naples passes to René of Anjou.source
  • 1435The French-born René of Anjou becomes King of Naples upon the death of his predecessor queen Joanna II of Naples.source
  • 1438The Unio Trium Nationum pact is established in Transylvania.source
  • 1461After the "sun dog" (parhelion) weather phenomenon in England gives the illusion of three suns rising at dawn, Edward, Earl of March, leads the Yorkists to victory over the Lancastrians in battle at the Battle of Mortimer's Cross. Edward convinces his frightened troops that the three sunrises represents the Holy Trinity and divine support for the Yorkist cause. The Lancastrians, led by Owen Tudor and his son Jasper Tudor, Earl of Pembroke, are defeated, and Owen Tudor is taken prisoner and executed.source
  • 1487Acting on rumors of a rebellion in England, led by a person posing as Edward Plantagenet, 17th Earl of Warwick, King Henry VII convenes a meeting of the Privy Council at Sheen Palace in Richmond, to discuss a response to the situation. The first measure is to bring Edward, son of the last Earl of Warwick, out of imprisonment at the Tower of London and to parade him through London to dispel the rumors.source
  • 1488Prince James, Duke of Rothesay, the 15-year-old son of King James III of Scotland and heir to the throne, leaves his residence at Stirling Castle and joins a rebellion against his father. Prince James sides with the Earl of Angus and the Earl of Argyll in the rebellion, which ultimately leads to the King's death.source
  • 1489Isabella of Aragon, daughter of King Alfonso II of Naples, marries Gian Galeazzo Sforza, Duke of Milan, as part of a closer alliance of Naples and Milan in Italy.source
  • 1491At Stettin (now Szczecin in Poland) Bogislaw X, Duke of Pomerania, marries Anna Jagiellon, daughter of King Casimir IV.source
  • 1508During the Glinski rebellion, Lithuanian noble Mykolas Glinskis attacks Grodno (now in Belarus) and decapitates Jan Zabrzeziński, the top ally of Grand Duke Alexander.source
  • 1515Creation of the Count of Vimioso title of nobility.source
  • 1518In Valladolid in Spain, Frenchman Jean Sauvage, Chancellor of Burgundy is appointed by Spain's Prince Charles as the Chief Judge of the Cortes of Valladolid. The choice of a foreigner is resented by the members of the court and Sauvage is replaced at the Cortes by the Spanish Bishop Pedro Ruiz de la Mota.source
  • 1518Jean Sauvage, Chancellor of Burgundy is appointed Chief Judge of the Cortes of Valladolid.source
  • 1521The Nydala Abbey Bloodbath take place in Nydala Abbey.source
  • 1529The Örebro Synod provides the theological foundation of the Swedish Reformation, following the economic foundation of it, after the Reduction of Gustav I of Sweden.source
  • 1534Sweden joins the Count's Feud to support the Danish throne claimant Christian against the Lübeck -supported Christian II.source
  • 1536Spanish conquistador Pedro de Mendoza founds Buenos Aires in what is now Argentina.source
  • 1542Battle of Baçente: The Portuguese under Cristóvão da Gama capture a Muslim-occupied hillfort in northern Ethiopia.source
  • 1548On Candlemas day in Scotland, during the Rough Wooing War with England, the Byllye Castle near Auchencrow is captured by a force of 11 English soldiers led by Thomas Carlile, and becomes a garrison for English troops.source
  • 1552The office of Ulster King of Arms and Principal Herald of Ireland is established (based at Dublin Castle) by King Edward VI.source
  • 1553Hugh Goodacre is consecrated as Archbishop of Armagh (Church of Ireland) and John Bale as Bishop of Ossory.source
  • 1555The Diet of Augsburg begins.source
  • 1558The University of Jena is founded in Thuringia, Germany.source
  • 1573The Wanli Era begins in Ming dynasty China on the first New Year after 9-year-old Zhu Yijun ascends the throne.source
  • 1584(6th waning moon of the Magha, BE 2126) In what is now Thailand, Prince Naresuan, the Uparaja of the Ayutthaya Kingdom and the son of King Mahathammarachathirat carries out the orders of Burma's King Nanda Bayin, and leads an army to suppress a rebellion by the Viceroy of the Ava Kingdom, Thado Minsaw. Arriving in April, Naresuan learns that King Nanda has ordered Naresuan to be assassinated, and begins his own rebellion against Burma, the Burmese–Siamese War.source
  • 1593Battle of Piątek: Polish forces led by Janusz Ostrogski are victorious.source
  • 1594England's Admiral Richard Hawkins and the crew of the ship HMS Dainty become the first Europeans to see the Falkland Islands.source
  • 1602February 2 (Candlemas night) – In London, the first known production of William Shakespeare's comedy Twelfth Night takes place.source
  • 1614Iran's Safavid dynasty Emperor, Abbas the Great, carries out the execution of his oldest son, Crown Prince Mohammad Baqer Mirza, on suspicion that his son is planning to kill him.source
  • 1615Sir Thomas Roe sets out to become the first ambassador from the court of the King of England to the Mughal Emperor Jahangir, departing from Tilbury Hope on the ship Lyon under the command of captain Christopher Newport.source
  • 1626King Charles I of England is crowned, but without his wife, Henrietta Maria, who declines to participate in a non-Catholic ceremony.source
  • 1644Prince of Transylvania George I Rákóczi invades Hungary to aid Sweden against the Habsburgs.source
  • 1645Battle of Inverlochy: The Scottish Covenanters are defeated by Montrose.source
  • 1653New Amsterdam (now New York City) received municipal rights by a charter from New Netherland Governor Peter Stuyvesant.source
  • 1659Jan van Riebeeck produces the first South African wine, at the Cape of Good Hope.source
  • 1664Jesuit missionary Johann Grueber arrives in Rome after a 214-day journey that had started in Beijing, proving that commerce can be had between Europe and Asia by land rather than ship.source
  • 1672The Barony of Brahetrolleborg is established by Birgitte Trolle from the manors of af Brahetrolleborg, Sølyst, Egneborg, Høbbet and Brændegård.source
  • 1681In India, the Mughal Empire city of Burhanpur (now in the Indian state of Madhya Pradesh) is sacked and looted by troops of the Maratha Empire on orders of the Maratha emperor, the Chhatrapati Sambhaji. General Hambirrao Mohite began the pillaging three days earlier.source
  • 17031703 Apennine earthquakes: The magnitude 6.7 L'Aquila earthquake affects Central Italy, with a maximum Mercalli intensity of X (Extreme). In the final large event (an example of Coulomb stress transfer), damage occurs as far distant as Rome, with landslides, liquefaction, slope failures and at least 2,500 deaths.source
  • 1706Swedish victory in the Battle of Fraustadt.source
  • 1714Nicholas Rowe's tragedy Jane Shore premieres at the Drury Lane Theatre in London and is a popular success.source
  • 1725J. S. Bach leads the first performance of his chorale cantata Mit Fried und Freud ich fahr dahin, BWV 125, based on Luther's paraphrase of the Nunc dimittis.source
  • 1727Johann Sebastian Bach's solo cantata, Ich habe genug, BWV 82, premieres in Leipzig.source
  • 1757At Versailles in France, representatives of the Russian Empire and the Austrian Empire enter into an alliance against Prussia, with each nation pledging 80,000 troops. Other clauses to the treaty, not disclosed to the public, commit Austria to pay Russia one million rubles per year during the war to pay for the expenses of 24,000 of the Russian troops, and two million rubles upon the conquest of Silesia (a Prussian province that had been seized from Austria in 1746).source
  • 1757At Versailles, representatives of the Russian Empire and the Austrian Empire enter into an alliance against Prussia.source
  • 1781The Articles of Confederation are ratified by Maryland, the 13th and final state to do so.source
  • 1781Ethan Allen receives a further proposal from Col. Robinson; but sends both to Congress, with a request for the recognition of Vermont. Premising loyalty to Congress, he maintains that Vermont may properly treat with Great Britain, to prevent being subjected to another State, by the authority of a Government which Vermonters have helped to establish.source
  • 1786In a speech before The Asiatic Society in Calcutta, Sir William Jones notes the formal resemblances between Latin, Greek, and Sanskrit, laying the foundation for comparative linguistics and Indo-European studies.source
  • 1787Arthur St. Clair of Pennsylvania is chosen as the new President of the Congress of the Confederation.source
  • 1797Siege of Mantua: Field marshal Dagobert von Wurmser surrenders the fortress city to the French; only 16,000 men of the garrison are capable of marching out as prisoners of war.source
  • 1803Charles Grimes discovered the Yarra River.source
  • 1808William Paterson sails to Sydney from Port Dalrymple, Van Diemen's Land to take over the administration of New South Wales following the removal of Bligh.source
  • 1808French troops occupy Papal States (Vatican).source
  • 1819The Supreme Court under John Marshall rules in favor of Dartmouth College in the famous Dartmouth College v. Woodward case, allowing Dartmouth to keep its charter and remain a private institution.source
  • 1821Cinderloo Uprising: Shropshire Yeomanry fire on a crowd of miners striking over a pay cut in the Coalbrookdale Coalfield, killing three.source
  • 1831Pope Gregory XVI succeeds Pope Pius VIII, as the 254th pope.source
  • 1848Mexican–American War: Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo – Mexico cedes virtually all of what becomes the Southwestern United States to the U.S. The unincorporated California Territory becomes a provisional official possession; it is never organized by the United States Congress as a territory, but directly passes the requirements for statehood in 1850.source
  • 1848Mexican–American War: The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo is signed, ending the war and ceding to the United States virtually all of what is today the southwest of that country.source
  • 1848John Henry Newman founds the first Oratory in the English-speaking world, when he establishes the Birmingham Oratory at 'Maryvale', Old Oscott, England.source
  • 1856Dallas, Texas, is incorporated as a city.source
  • 1859Miguel Miramón (1832–1867) becomes Conservative interim President of Mexico.source
  • 1862The first railway is opened in New Zealand, by the Dun Mountain Copper Mining Company.source
  • 1867Mines across the Charleroi coalfield closed by strikes.source
  • 1869Lord Lisgar replaces Viscount Monck of Ballytrammon as Governor Generalsource
  • 1870It is revealed that the famed Cardiff Giant in the U.S. is just carved gypsum and not the petrified remains of a human.source
  • 1870The Cardiff Giant is proven a hoax.source
  • 1870The Seven Brothers (Seitsemän veljestä), a novel by Finnish author Aleksis Kivi, is published first time in several thin booklets.source
  • 1872The government of the United Kingdom buys a number of forts on the Gold Coast, from the Netherlands.source
  • 1876Third Carlist War (Spain): Battle of Montejurra – The new commander General Fernando Primo de Rivera marches on the remaining Carlist stronghold at Estella, where he meets a force of about 1,600 men under General Carlos Calderón, at nearby Montejurra. After a courageous and costly defence, Calderón is forced to withdraw.source
  • 1876The National League of Professional Base Ball Clubs is formed at a meeting in Chicago; it replaces the National Association of Professional Base Ball Players. Morgan Bulkeley of the Hartford Dark Blues is selected as the league's first president.source
  • 1878Greece declares war on the Ottoman Empire.source
  • 1878Alois Lubecki makes the first telephone call in the country, between Dunedin and Milton. Later in the year the first public demonstration of the telephone is made with a call between Blenheim and Nelson.source
  • 1880The first successful shipment of frozen mutton from Australia arrives in London, aboard the SS Strathleven.source
  • 1880The first electric streetlight is installed in Wabash, Indiana.source
  • 1882A cyclone causes considerable damage to the town of Cardwell, Queensland.source
  • 1887The first Groundhog Day is observed in Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania.source
  • 1887In Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania, the first Groundhog Day is observed.source
  • 1897The Treaty of Washington between Venezuela and the United Kingdom is signed, towards the end of the Venezuelan crisis of 1895.source
  • 1897Despite the guarantees given by the Great Powers on the Ottoman sovereignty over Crete, Colonel Timoleon Vassos unilaterally proclaimed the union of the island with Greece. The Powers reacted by demanding that the Greek Prime Minister Theodoros Deligiannis immediately withdraw Greek forces from the island in exchange for a statute of autonomy. The demand was rejected, and on 7 February the first full-scale battle between Greeks and Turks occurred, when the Greek expeditionary force in Crete defeated a 4,000-strong Ottoman force at the Battle of Livadeia, Crete. The bold action of the Greeks excites popular admiration in Italy and sympathy with the Cretan Christians.source
  • 1897Clara Brett Martin becomes the first woman to practise law in Ontario.source
  • 1899The participants in the Australian Premiers' Conference agree that Australia's capital (Canberra) should be located between Sydney and Melbourne.source
  • 1899Halfdan Egedius, painter and illustrator (born 1877)source
  • 1899The Tsar of Russia donates $500,000 for the relief of famine suffered by peasants in the Empire.source
  • 1900The Daily Bulletin (now Manila Bulletin) is established as the second oldest existing English language newspaper.source
  • 1901The State funeral of Queen Victoria, held at St George's Chapel, Windsor Castle, UK, is attended by many European royals, including Kaiser Wilhelm II and Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria.source
  • 1906Prime Minister Alessandro Fortis resigns.source
  • 1909The Paris Film Congress opens. It is an attempt to create a cartel of leading European producers similar to the MPPC in the United States.source
  • 1910A coal mine explosion at the Palau mine at Las Esperanzas in the State of Coahuila in Mexico kills 68 miners.source
  • 1913New York City's Grand Central Terminal, having been rebuilt, reopens as the world's largest train station.source
  • 1916Submarine HMS J4 is launched at Pembroke Dock.source
  • 1918Cape – Kootjieskolk to Calvinia, 43 mi 47 ch.source
  • 1918The Brighton tornado, the strongest storms ever recorded in Melbourne, strike the suburb of Brighton, killing two people.source
  • 1920Estonian War of Independence: The Tartu Peace Treaty is signed, ending the war and recognizing the independence of both the Republic of Estonia and the Russian Socialist Federative Soviet Republic.source
  • 1920Treaty of Tartu which gave Estonia recognition by Soviet Russia.source
  • 1921Nicolae Bretan's opera Luceafărul is first performed at Romanian National Opera, Cluj-Napoca.source
  • 1922Bethlen, and most of his Christian National Union Party (KNEP) joins the National Smallholders and Agricultural Labourers Party (OKGFP) and form the Christian Agricultural Labourers, Smallholders and Civic Party, commonly known as the Unity Party.source
  • 1926Spelling of the town of Carnarvon changed to Caernarvon (modern-day Caernarfon); the county makes the same change on 1 July.source
  • 1932A general World Disarmament Conference begins in Geneva. The principal issue at the conference is the demand made by Germany for Gleichberechtigung ("equality of status" i.e. abolishing Part V of the Treaty of Versailles, which had disarmed Germany) and the French demand for sécurité ("security" i.e. maintaining Part V).source
  • 1932The Reconstruction Finance Corporation begins operations in Washington, D.C.source
  • 1935A trade agreement between the United States and Brazil is signed in Washington, D.C.source
  • 1937January 31 – February 2: The 25th Congress of the Polish Socialist Party takes place in Radom. Four people die in a rail crash near Mikołów,source
  • 1940February 2–11 – Scheduled dates for the 1940 Winter Olympics in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany, cancelled in November 1939 due to WWII (originally allocated to Sapporo, Japan).source
  • 1943WWII: In Russia, the Battle of Stalingrad comes to an end, with the surrender of the German 6th Army.source
  • 1944The first issue of Human Events is published in Washington, D.C.source
  • 1948Luxembourg Airlines Company makes its first flight, from Luxembourg – Findel to Paris – Le Bourget.source
  • 1951February 1–2 – The 1951 Nepalese revolution leads to agreement for a democratic constitution.source
  • 1952Groundhog Day tropical storm forms just north of Cuba, moving northeast. The storm makes landfall in southern Florida the next day as a gale-force storm and transitions to a tropical storm over the Atlantic (only Atlantic tropical storm on record in February).source
  • 1957President Iskander Mirza of Pakistan lays the foundation-stone of the Guddu Barrage across the Indus River, near Sukkur.source
  • 1958The Falcons aerobatic team of the Pakistan Air Force led by Wg Cdr Mitty Masud set a world record performing a 16 aircraft diamond loop in F-86 Sabres. 30,000 people are in attendance including President Iskandar Ali Mirza, General Ayub Khan, Air Marshal Asghar Khan, Air Commodore Nur Khan, C-in-C Turkish Air Force Hamdullah Suphi Göker, Chief of the Iraqi Air Force Abdul Kadhim Abaddi, Chief of the Imperial Iranian Air Force and Chief Guest King Zahir Shah in whose honor the performance has been organized.source
  • 1959Nine ski hikers mysteriously perish in the northern Ural Mountains in the Dyatlov Pass incident and are all found dead a few weeks later.source
  • 1962Germany in the Eurovision Song Contest 1962source
  • 1962Shlomo Hestrin (born 1914), Canadian-born Israeli biochemist.source
  • 1963Operation Coldstore was mounted to stop communist influence, resulting in 113 people being arrested.source
  • 1964January 29 – February 9 – The 1964 Winter Olympics are held in Innsbruck, Austria.source
  • 1969Dana International, Israeli singer.source
  • 1972A bomb explodes at the British Yacht Club in West Berlin, killing Irwin Beelitz, a German boat builder. The West German militant group June 2 Movement claims responsibility, announcing its support of the Provisional Irish Republican Army.source
  • 1977The Congress Party of India, led by Indira Gandhi, splits with Jagjivan Ram and other senior leaders, forming Congress for Democracy. This party later merges with the Janata Party.source
  • 1978the Reunion Tower opens in Dallas Texas.source
  • 1980Abscam: FBI personnel target members of the Congress of the United States in a sting operation.source
  • 1982The Hama massacre begins in Syria.source
  • 1983Giovanni Vigliotto goes on trial on charges of polygamy involving 105 women.source
  • 1985Sopormetal, a company supplying brazing materials, silver and copper brazing solders, is founded.source
  • 1989Soviet–Afghan War: The last Soviet Union armoured column leaves Kabul, ending nine years of military occupation since 1979.source
  • 1989An ailing State President Pieter Willem Botha steps down from the leadership of the National Party, but remains state president.source
  • 1990Bucharest Military Court pronounces judgment in the trial of four of Ceaușescu's close collaborators – Manea Mănescu, Tudor Postelnicu, Emil Bobu, and Ion Dincă: life imprisonment and total confiscation of personal property.source
  • 1996The Maritime and Port Authority of Singapore is formed from a merger between the Marine Department (under the then Ministry of Communications), National Maritime Board and the Regulatory departments of the former Port of Singapore Authority (PSA). This helps to streamline maritime operations.source
  • 19971997 Liechtenstein general election: The Patriotic Union remains the largest party and wins a majority of 13 seats in the Landtag.source
  • 1998All ferry routes from Jordan Road Ferry Pier were open.source
  • 1998Cebu Pacific Flight 387 crashes into a mountain, this crash marked deadliest aviation accident in Philippines until 2000.source
  • 2007The IPCC publishes its fourth assessment report, having concluded that global climate change is "very likely" to have a predominantly human cause.source
  • 2007Citizens' Movement for Democracy and Development establishedsource
  • 2011The army in Mauritania destroy a car packed with explosives outside the capital Nouakchott, killing three people suspected of being members of al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb.source
  • 2011The Sudanese government, in its first official reaction after preliminary results were announced indicating a landslide vote in favor of Southern Sudan's independence, agrees to accept the results; Vice-President Ali Osman Taha says the government intends "to pursue a policy of good neighbourly relations with the south".source
  • 2015A shootout between the Lesotho Defence Force and two former bodyguards of Prime Minister Tom Thabane, leaves one bystander killed and three wounded.source
  • 2015Iran's Fajr satellite is successfully placed in the orbit.source
  • 2020Jennifer Lopez wows the crowd by wearing a costume featuring the flag of Puerto Rico during her half-time appearance at the Super Bowl LIV.source
  • 2021Riga is confirmed as the sole host of the 2021 IIHF Ice Hockey World Championship after Minsk withdraws from the running.source
  • 2022Tonga enters a nationwide lockdown after the country reported its first locally transmitted COVID-19 cases.source
  • 2023The European Central Bank and Bank of England raise their interest rates by 0.5 percentage points to combat inflation, one day after the US Federal Reserve raises its federal funds rate by 0.25 percentage points.source
  • 2023February 1 – February 11: 2022 FIFA Club World Cup in Morocco.source
  • 2024King Tupou VI withdraws confidence from Prime Minister Siaosi Sovaleni, removing his Armed Forces portfolio, and dismisses foreign minister Fekitamoeloa ʻUtoikamanu.source
  • 2024Economy minister and concurrent deputy prime minister Alejandro Gil Fernández is dismissed by First Secretary Miguel Díaz-Canel amid an ongoing economic crisis. Díaz-Canel subsequently announces a criminal investigation against Gil for unspecified offenses.source
  • 2024Lesotho at the 2024 World Aquatics Championships: Lesotho competes in Doha, Qatar with one athlete in swimming. No medals are won.source

Births

  • 450Justin I, Byzantine Emperor (died 527)source
  • 1132William of Norwich, English martyr (died 1144)source
  • 1208James I ("the Conqueror"), king of Aragon (died 1276)source
  • 1264Sancha of Portugal, Portuguese princess (died 1279)source
  • 1282Maud Chaworth, English noblewoman (died 1322)source
  • 1286Joan de Geneville, English noblewoman (died 1356)source
  • 1426Eleanor of Navarre, queen regnant of Navarre (died 1479)source
  • 1443Elisabeth of Bavaria, Electress of Saxony (died 1484)source
  • 1455King John of Denmark, Norway, and Sweden (died 1513)source
  • 1457Peter Martyr d'Anghiera, Italo-Spanish historian and diplomat (died 1526)source
  • 1467Columba of Rieti, Italian Dominican tertiary Religious Sister (died 1501)source
  • 1494Bona Sforza, queen of Sigismund I of Poland (died 1557)source
  • 1502Damião de Góis, Portuguese philosopher (died 1574)source
  • 1506René de Birague, French cardinal and chancellor (died 1583)source
  • 1509John of Leiden, Dutch Anabaptist leader (died 1536)source
  • 1516Girolamo Zanchi, Italian theologian (died 1590)source
  • 1517Gotthard Kettler, Duke of Courland and Semigallia (died 1587)source
  • 1518Godfried van Mierlo, Dutch Dominican friar and bishop (died 1587)source
  • 1526Konstanty Wasyl Ostrogski, Polish noble (died 1608)source
  • 1533Shimazu Yoshihisa, Japanese samurai (died 1611)source
  • 1536Piotr Skarga, Polish writer (died 1612)source
  • 1551Nicolaus Reimers, German astronomer (died 1600)source
  • 1576Alix Le Clerc, French Canoness Regular and foundress (died 1622)source
  • 1585Hamnet Shakespeare, William Shakespeare's only son (died 1596)source
  • 1585Judith Quiney, William Shakespeare's youngest daughter (died 1662)source
  • 1588Georg II of Fleckenstein-Dagstuhl, German nobleman (died 1644)source
  • 1600Gabriel Naudé, French librarian and scholar (died 1653)source
  • 1611Ulrik of Denmark, Danish prince-bishop (died 1633)source
  • 1611Ulrik of Denmark, Prince of Denmark (died 1633 in Poland)source
  • 1650Nell Gwyn, English actress and royal mistress (died 1687)source
  • 1651February 2 or 1950 – William Phips, first royal governor of the Province of Massachusetts Bay (died 1695)source
  • 1695William Borlase, English antiquarian, geologist and naturalist (died 1772)source
  • 1699Hugh MacDonald, Roman Catholic bishop, Vicar Apostolic of the Highland District of Scotland 1731–1773 (died 1773)source
  • 1711Wenzel Anton, Prince of Kaunitz-Rietberg, Austrian diplomat and chancellor (died 1794)source
  • 1745Hannah More, English religious writer, Romantic poet and philanthropist (died 1833)source
  • 1748Adam Weishaupt, German founder of the Order of the Illuminati (died 1811)source
  • 1754Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord, French politician (died 1838)source
  • 1803Albert Sidney Johnston, American Confederate general (died 1862)source
  • 1829William Stanley, British inventor, engineer (died 1909)source
  • 1846Francis Marion Smith, American borax magnate (died 1931)source
  • 1882James Joyce, Irish author (died 1941)source
  • 1889Jean de Lattre de Tassigny, French general, posthumous Marshal of France (died 1952)source
  • 1905Ayn Rand, Russian-born American author, philosopher (The Fountainhead) (died 1982)source
  • 1926Lia Laats, actress (died 2004)source
  • 1952Park Geun Hye, President of South Koreasource
  • 1962Mustapha Moussa (Algerian boxer)source
  • 1964Goodluck Nanah Opiah, politician and former speaker of the Imo State House of Assembly, Nigeria.source
  • 1977Shakira, Colombian singer-songwriter and musiciansource

Deaths

  • 619Laurence, Archbishop of Canterburysource
  • 880Bruno, duke of Saxonysource
  • 1062Atenulf I, Lombard noblemansource
  • 1124Bořivoj II, Duke of Bohemia (born c. 1064)source
  • 1209Alfonso II, Count of Provence ("Berenguer"), Spanish nobleman and knight (born 1180)source
  • 1211Adelaide of Meissen, duchess of Bohemiasource
  • 1237Joan, Lady of Wales, English princesssource
  • 1250Erik Eriksson, king of Sweden (born 1216)source
  • 1250King Erik Eriksson of Sweden dies. The ten-year-old Valdemar, the eldest son of Birger Jarl, is elected King of Sweden, and becomes the first king from the House of Bjälbo.source
  • 1347Thomas Bek, Bishop of Lincoln (born 1282)source
  • 1348Narimantas, Christian Lithuanian prince of Pinsk (Battle of Strėva)source
  • 1353Anne of Bavaria, queen consort of Bohemia (born 1329)source
  • 1416Racek Kobyla of Dvorce, Bohemian Hetman and Burgrave.source
  • 1435Queen Joanna II of Naples (born 1371)source
  • 1446Vittorino da Feltre, Italian humanist (born 1378)source
  • 1449Ibn Hajar al-Asqalani, Islamic scholar (born 1372)source
  • 1461Owen Tudor, Welsh founder of the Tudor dynasty (executed)source
  • 1512Hatuey, Puerto Rican Taíno chiefsource
  • 1521The Nydala Abbey Bloodbath takes place at Nydala Abbey, Sweden; the abbot and many monks are murdered by Danes.source
  • 1529Baldassare Castiglione, Italian writer and diplomat (born 1478)source
  • 1550Sir Francis Bryan, courtier, diplomat and lawyer (born c.1490)source
  • 1594Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina, Italian composer (born 1525)source
  • 1714John Sharp, English Archbishop of Yorkshire (born 1643)source
  • 1769Pope Clement XIII (born 1693)source
  • 1769Pope Clement XIII dies, the night before preparing an order to dissolve the Jesuits.source
  • 1812Isaac Titsingh, Dutch scholar, merchant-trader and ambassador (born 1745)source
  • 1836Madame Mère (Letizia Ramolino Bonaparte) mother of Napoleon I (born 1749)source
  • 1907Dmitri Mendeleev, Russian chemist (born 1834)source
  • 1919Julius Kuperjanov, Estonian military commander (born 1894)source
  • 1970Bertrand Russell, British logician and philosopher, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature (born 1872)source
  • 2014Philip Seymour Hoffman, 46, American actor (Capote, Magnolia, Doubt), Oscar winner (2006), acute mixed drug intoxication.source