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February 24 in history

218 sourced entries recorded on February 24, from 484 CE to 2024 CE. Every line is quoted from the revision it came from.

Events

  • 484King Huneric passes the Edict of 484, a law banning Catholicism within the Vandal Kingdom. A few weeks later, King Huneric removes Catholic bishops from their offices and banishes some to Corsica. A few are martyred, including former proconsul Victorian along with Frumentius and other merchants. They are killed at Hadrumetum after refusing to become Arians.source
  • 1209The Franciscan Order is founded by the Italian priest Francis of Assisi. He and 11 of his followers journey to Rome where he receives approval of his rule from Pope Innocent III. Franciscan friars can not own any possessions of any kind. They wander and preach among the people, helping the poor and the sick. They support themselves by working and by begging for food, but they are forbidden to accept money either for work or as alms. The Franciscans work at first in Umbria and then in the rest of Italy. The impact of these street preachers and especially of their founder is immense, so that within 10 years they number some 5,000 followers.source
  • 1303Battle of Roslin: Scottish forces (some 8,000 men) led by John Comyn III "the Red" and Simon Fraser ambush and defeat an English scouting party under John Segrave at Roslin. During the battle, the Scots attack the English camp, capturing Segrave and several other nobles. But a second English brigade manages to rescue Segrave in a pitched battle. Later, the English army is again defeated, according to sources they lose between 28,000 and 30,000 men.source
  • 1310A group of 12 Scottish Catholic bishops, including William Sinclair, Bishop of Dunkeld, swear fealty to Robert the Bruce, King of Scotland.source
  • 1310twelve Scottish bishops swear fealty to King Robert the Brucesource
  • 1368King Edward III of England summons the English Parliament to meet at Westminster on May 1.source
  • 1371The English Parliament opens its session at Westminster.source
  • 1377In southern India, Harihara II succeeds Bukka Raya I, as ruler of the Vijayanagara Empire at its capital, Vijayanagara (now Hampi in Karnataka state).source
  • 1386Elizabeth of Bosnia, the mother of the overthrown Queen Mary of Hungary and Croatia, arranges the assassination of Charles III of Naples, the ruler of Hungary, Naples, Achaea and Croatia, with the result that Mary is reinstated as Queen of Hungary and Croatia; Charles' son, Ladislaus, becomes King of Naples; and a period of interregnum begins in Achaea, lasting until 1396. The rule of Achaea is sought by numerous pretenders, none of whom can be considered to have reigned.source
  • 1389Queen Margaret of Norway and Denmark defeats Albert, King of Sweden in battle and becomes ruler of all three kingdoms. Albert is deposed from the Swedish throne and taken prisoner.source
  • 1409Traveling in Valencia in Aragon, Father Joan Gilabert Jofré, known as "Padre Jofré", witnesses a mentally ill man being beaten by two young attackers. After rescuing the victim, Jofré resolves to create the Hospital dels Ignoscents, the world's first psychiatric hospital.source
  • 1417An envoy of the Sultan of the Ottoman Empire, identified in Italian records as "Chamitzi", arrives in the Republic of Venice to demand the release of Ottoman soldiers who had been taken as prisoners of war during the conflict between Venice and the Ottomans. The release of each nation's prisoners of war is unresolved and hinders peace negotiations.source
  • 1425King Henry VI of England summons the English Parliament, ordering the members to assemble on April 30 at Westminster.source
  • 1441The Republic of Venice annexes the seigniory of Ravenna, ending the da Polenta Dynasty.source
  • 1455Alexăndrel of Moldavia retakes the position of Prince of Moldavia after forcing out Petru Aron.source
  • 1457King Charles VIII of Sweden is declared deposed after fleeing from Stockholm to Danzig following a rebellion. The Archbishop of Sweden, Jöns Bengtsson Oxenstierna, and statesman Erik Axelsson Tott become co-regents of Sweden. The coup leaders then offer the throne to Christian I, King of Denmark and Norway.source
  • 1471In what is now south Vietnam, the Champa–Dai Viet War begins when the Dai Viet Emperor Lê Thánh Tông sends 500 warships to block the Champa Kingdom's Bay of Sa Ky, while another 30,000 troops block all entrances to the capital city of Vijaya at what is now the Quảng Ngãi Province. The Me Can citadel in Quang Na falls two days later and the Vietnamese advance.source
  • 1484King James III of Scotland gives royal assent to numerous acts passed by the Scottish Parliament, including the Defence of the Realm Act 1483 (summoning the members of the nobility to come defend Scotland); the Duke of Albany Act, an arrest warrant for all person who made treasonable assistance to the King's rebellious brother, Alexander, Duke of Albany; and the two Barratry Acts, prohibiting "the having of mone furth of the Realme" (the exportation of money out of the realm) to the Court of Rome.source
  • 1496King Henry VII of England signs the commercial treaty Intercursus Magnus with Venice, Florence, and the cities of the Hanseatic League and the Netherlands.source
  • 1510In Rome, Pope Julius II revokes the interdict, imposed on the Republic of Venice in 1509.source
  • 1525Battle of Pavia: German and Spanish forces under Charles de Lannoy and the Marquis of Pescara defeat the French army, and capture Francis I of France, after his horse is wounded by Cesare Hercolani. While Francis is imprisoned in Lombardy and then transferred to Madrid, the first attempts to form a Franco-Ottoman alliance with Suleiman the Magnificent against the Habsburg Empire are made.source
  • 1525The French army is defeated in the Battle of Pavia, this was the decisive engagement of the Italian War of 1521–26.source
  • 1527The seven articles of the Schleitheim Confession are formally adopted by the Mennonite Anabaptist Christians at Schleitheim in the Canton of Schaffhausen in Switzerland.source
  • 1527Ferdinand of the House of Habsburg is formally crowned as King of Bohemia at Pressburg (now Bratislava in Slovakia).source
  • 1530Charles V is crowned emperor in Bologna, by Pope Clement VII.source
  • 1532William Warham, the 81-year-old Roman Catholic Archbishop of Canterbury, publicly declares that he is disassociating himself from all acts of the English Parliament that are prejudicial to papal authority.source
  • 1538Treaty of Nagyvárad: Peace is declared between Ferdinand I, future Holy Roman Emperor and the Ottoman Empire. John Zápolya is recognized as King of Hungary (Eastern Hungarian Kingdom), while Ferdinand retains the northern and western parts of the Kingdom, and is recognized as heir to the throne.source
  • 1552The privileges of the Hanseatic League are abolished in England.source
  • 1557Delegates from Sweden, Finland and Russia arrive at Novgorod to negotiate a treaty to end the war between the two empires.source
  • 1566In one of the first gun assassinations in Japanese (if not world) history, Mimura Iechika, the daimyō (warlord) of the Bitchū Province, is shot dead by two brothers (Endo Matajiro and Yoshijiro), sent by his rival Ukita Naoie.source
  • 1566Wedding of Jean Gordon and James Hepburn, 4th Earl of Bothwell.source
  • 1582February 24 (Julian) (March 6 Gregorian) – Pope Gregory XIII proclaims the Gregorian calendar, to come into effect in October. Under the order, the date on the Julian calendar will be advanced by 10 days in order to synchronize the calendar date back to the equinoxes and solstices, since the gap has been increasing by one day every 100 years since the 6th century and is 10 days off schedule.source
  • 1597The last battle of the Cudgel War is fought on the Santavuori Hill in Ilmajoki, Ostrobothnia.source
  • 1597End of the Cudgel War.source
  • 1604At Linköping in Sweden, the Riksdag declares that Sigismund, Grand Duke of Lithuania and King of Poland, who has been absent for five years, has effectively abdicated as King of Sweden, and recognizes Karl, Duke of Södermanland, as the new monarch.source
  • 1606Commercial treaty between France and England signed in Paris.source
  • 1607Claudio Monteverdi's L'Orfeo, the earliest fully developed opera in the modern-day repertoire, premieres at the Ducal Palace of Mantua.source
  • 1610English courtier Thomas Roe sets out on an expedition to The Guianas and Amazon River.source
  • 1613King Anaukpetlun of Burma blockades the Portuguese port at Syriam with 80 warships and 3,000 men, then sets about to tunnel into the city.source
  • 1616A commission of Roman Catholic theologians, the "Qualifiers," reports that the idea that the Sun is stationary is "foolish and absurd in philosophy, and formally heretical since it explicitly contradicts in many places the sense of Holy Scripture...".source
  • 1634By this date, the Paulaner Brewery is established in Munich, by Minim friars.source
  • 1647Thomas Bushell surrenders the Bristol Channel island of Lundy, the last remaining Royalist territory of England, to the Parliamentarians.source
  • 1684A treaty is signed between European German colonists in Brandenburg-Prussia, and the African chiefs in what is now Ghana to permit the German colonists to build a second fort on the Brandenburger Gold Coast, and the fortress of Dorotheenschanze is built. The area is now the Ghanaian city of Akwida.source
  • 1692the Treaty of Limerick is ratified.source
  • 1711Thomas Cary, after declaring himself Governor of North Carolina, sails an armed brigantine up the Chowan River, to attack Governor Hyde's forces fortified at Colonel Thomas Pollock's plantation. The attack fails, and Cary's forces retreat.source
  • 1711Rinaldo by George Frideric Handel, the first Italian opera written for the London stage, premieres at the Queen's Theatre, Haymarket.source
  • 1711premiere of Rinaldo by George Frideric Handel, the first Italian opera written for the London stage, at the Queen's Theatre, Haymarket.source
  • 1716execution of the Jacobite leaders James Radclyffe, 3rd Earl of Derwentwater, and William Gordon, 6th Viscount of Kenmure in London.source
  • 1716Peter Jansen Wessel was ennobled, and given the noble family name Tordenskiold.source
  • 1720Battle of Nassau: Spanish forces assault the British settlement of Nassau, Bahamas at the end of the War of the Quadruple Alliance.source
  • 1729February 24 (February 13 O.S.) – In the city of Resht in Persia, Russian and Afghani leaders sign a peace treaty, with General Vasily Levashev for Russia and Muhammad Saidal Khan for Afghanistan.source
  • 1739Battle of Karnal: The army of Iranian ruler Nader Shah defeats the forces of the Mughal emperor of India, Muhammad Shah.source
  • 1760February 21–26 – Seven Years' War: Battle of Carrickfergus in the north of Ireland – A force of French troops, under the command of privateer François Thurot, captures and holds the town and castle of Carrickfergus before retiring; the force is defeated (and Thurot killed) in the naval Battle of Bishops Court in the Irish Sea on February 28.source
  • 1768With Russian troops occupying the nation, opposition legislators of the national legislature having been deported, the government of Poland signs a treaty virtually turning the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth into a protectorate of the Russian Empire.source
  • 1773Decision of the council reorganizing recovery of the poll tax on the bourgeoisie of Paris. Rents are recorded by Intendant Bertier de Sauvigny and the tax is calculated proportionally; the tax yield increases from 850,000 livres to 1,400,000 livres.source
  • 1774The Province of Massachusetts Bay House of Representatives votes, 92 to 8, to impeach Superior Court Chief Justice Peter Oliver, but Provincial Governor Thomas Hutchinson refuses to allow the trial to proceed.source
  • 1784The Captivity of Mangalorean Catholics at Seringapatam begins.source
  • 1791First Bank of the United States chartered for 20 years, with headquarters in Philadelphia.source
  • 1803Marbury v. Madison: The Supreme Court of the United States establishes the principle of judicial review.source
  • 1809The Theatre Royal, Drury Lane in London is destroyed by fire.source
  • 1812Prussia and France sign the Treaty of Paris, a military alliance.source
  • 1815Having completed the purchase of 200 acres for the mission site at Rangihoua, Marsden leaves for Port Jackson accompanied by chiefs Te Morenga and Te Pehi(Tupe).source
  • 1821Army of the Three Guarantees formedsource
  • 1822The first Swaminarayan temple, Kalupur Swaminarayan Mandir at Ahmedabad in the British Raj, is inaugurated.source
  • 1826The Treaty of Yandabo ends the First Anglo-Burmese War. Britain gains Assam, Manipur, Rakhine and Tanintharyi.source
  • 1838U.S. Representatives William J. Graves of Kentucky and Jonathan Cilley of Maine face each other in a duel with rifles at 80 yards near Bladensburg, Maryland. On the third attempt, Congressman Cilley is fatally wounded and bleeds to death.source
  • 1839William Otis receives a U.S. patent for the steam shovel.source
  • 1842The Bay of Islands Observer begins publishing. The newspaper publishes its last issue on 27 October 1842.source
  • 1846February 20–March 3 – Kraków uprising: Polish nationalists stage an uprising in the Free City of Kraków; it is suppressed by forces of the Austrian Empire, supported by peasants.source
  • 1848Louis Philippe I, King of the French, abdicates in favour of his grandson, Prince Philippe, Count of Paris (who is proclaimed as Louis Philippe II but not accepted by the people), and flees to England after days of revolution in Paris. The French Second Republic is later proclaimed by Alphonse de Lamartine, in the name of the provisional government elected by the Chamber, under the pressure of the mob.source
  • 1863Arizona is organized as a United States territory.source
  • 1868Impeachment of Andrew Johnson: Three days after his action to dismiss United States Secretary of War Edwin M. Stanton, the United States House of Representatives votes 126–47 in favor of a resolution to impeach Andrew Johnson, President of the United States, the first of three Presidents to be impeached by the full House. Johnson is later acquitted by the United States Senate.source
  • 1868The first parade to have floats takes place at Mardi Gras in New Orleans.source
  • 1871The Danish Women's Society is founded to promote women's rights in Denmark; on December 15 it adopts the style Dansk Kvindesamfund.source
  • 1874February 24–25 – Third Carlist War: First Battle of Somorrostro – Determined to raise the siege of Bilbao by the Pretender Don Carlos VII, Republican commander Marshal Francisco Serrano sends General Domingo Moriones with a relief force of 14,000 men. Carlists, under General Nicolás Ollo, entrenched at Somorrostro outside Bilbao, drive back a courageous assault by General Fernando Primo de Rivera and then the entire Republican army. The republicans lose 1,200 men, and Moriones loses his nerve, demanding reinforcements and a replacement for himself. Moriones's men entrench and wait.source
  • 1875The SS Gothenburg sinks off Australia's east coast with the loss of approximately 102 lives, including a number of high-profile civil servants and dignitaries.source
  • 1875The SS Gothenburg strikes Old Reef off Ayr, Queensland and sinks with the loss of 102 lives.source
  • 1876The first stage production of the verse-play Peer Gynt by Henrik Ibsen premieres, with incidental music by Edvard Grieg, in Christiania (modern-day Oslo), Norway.source
  • 1878Anti-Russian demonstrations occur in Hyde Park, London.source
  • 1880The SS Columbia, which will be the first outside usage of Thomas Edison's incandescent light bulb, is launched at the Delaware River Iron Ship Building and Engine Works of John Roach & Sons in Chester, Pennsylvania.source
  • 1881February 24 (February 12 Old Style) – Qing dynasty China signs the Treaty of Saint Petersburg with the Russian Empire providing for the return to China of the eastern part of the Ili Basin.source
  • 1881Zeng Jize and the Russian representative concluded the Treaty of Saint Petersburg.source
  • 1886At Raukleiv’s first Siljordsskirendet, Johannes Nordgården falls at a 27 m world record, and Olaf Bergland later sets the official record at 25.5 m.source
  • 1887The first international telephone line in Europe is opened to the public between Brussels and Paris.source
  • 1887The first international telephone line in Europe is opened to the public between Brussels and Parissource
  • 1890Chicago is selected to host the World's Columbian Exposition.source
  • 1891The constitution of the First Brazilian Republic is promulgated.source
  • 1891A new constitution is adopted by a Constitutional Congress.source
  • 1893The American University is established by an Act of Congress, in Washington, D.C.source
  • 1895The first rebellions of the Cuban War of Independence break out.source
  • 1901The Expointer agricultural show is launched in Porto Alegre.source
  • 1907The Austrian Lloyd steamship Imperatrix, from Trieste to Bombay, is wrecked on Cape of Crete and sinks; 137 lives are lost.source
  • 1912Battle of Beirut: Italy makes a surprise attack on the Ottoman port of Beirut, when the cruiser Giuseppe Garibaldi and the gunboat Volturno bombard the harbour, killing 97 sailors and civilians.source
  • 1912Battle of Beirut: Italy launches a surprise attack on the Ottoman port of Beirut; the cruiser Giuseppe Garibaldi and the gunboat Volturno bombard the harbour, killing 97 sailors and civilians. As a result of the battle all Ottoman naval forces in the region were annihilated, thus ensuring the approaches to the Suez Canal were open to the Italians. The Ottoman naval presence at Beirut was completely annihilated and casualties on the Ottoman side were heavy. The Italian navy gained complete naval dominance of the southern Mediterranean for the rest of the war.source
  • 1912The TSS Earnslaw launched at Kingston on Lake Wakatipu.source
  • 1917Walter Hines Page, United States ambassador to the United Kingdom, is shown the intercepted Zimmermann Telegram, in which Germany offers to give the American Southwest back to Mexico, if Mexico will take sides with Germany when the United States declares war on Germany.source
  • 1917WWI: United States ambassador to the United Kingdom, Walter H. Page, is shown the intercepted Zimmermann Telegram, in which Germany offers to give the American Southwest back to Mexico if Mexico declares war on the United States.source
  • 1917World War I: United States ambassador to the United Kingdom, Walter H. Page, is shown the intercepted Zimmermann Telegram, in which Germany offers to give Texas, Arizona, and New Mexico back to Mexico if Mexico declares war on the United States.source
  • 1918February 19–25 – WWI: The Imperial Russian Navy evacuates Tallinn through thick ice, over the Gulf of Finland.source
  • 1920Adolf Hitler presents his National Socialist Program in Munich to the German Workers' Party (Deutsche Arbeiterpartei), which renames itself as the Nazi Party (Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei).source
  • 1920Nikolayevsk Incident: Realizing that he is outnumbered and far from reinforcement, the commander of the Japanese garrison allows Yakov Triapitsyn's troops to enter the town of Nikolayevsk-on-Amur under a flag of truce.source
  • 1920February 12–24 – Conference of London: Leaders of the United Kingdom, France and Italy meet to discuss the partitioning of the Ottoman Empire.source
  • 1925The rebels captured Elazığsource
  • 1938election sees National Front winning 63 seats and all the opposition winning 17 seats.source
  • 1938A nylon bristle toothbrush becomes the first commercial product to be made with nylon yarn.source
  • 1942Propaganda: The Voice of America begins broadcasting.source
  • 1942Internment of Japanese Canadians is ordered.source
  • 1942Struma disaster: MV Struma, carrying Jewish refugees from Axis-allied Romania to British-administered Palestine, is torpedoed and sunk by Soviet submarine Shch-213 in the Black Sea, killing about 791 men, women and children, with only 1 survivor.source
  • 1942MV Struma, carrying Jewish refugees from Axis-allied Romania to Palestine, is torpedoed and sunk by the Soviet submarine Shch-213, killing at least 768 civilians, and possibly as many as 791, of whom 785 were Jews.source
  • 1949Razi Barkai, Israeli media personality.source
  • 1951The establishment of Yilan County Council.source
  • 1952February 14–25 – The Winter Olympics are held in Oslo, Norway.source
  • 1955The Baghdad Pact (CENTO), originally known as Middle East Treaty Organization (METO), is signed between Iraq and Turkey.source
  • 1956February 14–25 – The 20th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union is held in Moscow.source
  • 1958In Cuba, Fidel Castro's Radio Rebelde begins broadcasting from Sierra Maestra.source
  • 1966A coup led by the police and military of Ghana raises the National Liberation Council to power while president Kwame Nkrumah is abroad.source
  • 1967Moscow forbids its satellite states to form diplomatic relations with West Germany.source
  • 1968Vietnam War: The Tet Offensive is halted; South Vietnam recaptures Huế.source
  • 1969The Mariner 6 Mars probe is launched from the United States.source
  • 1969Far Eastern Air Transport Flight 104 crash landed in Tainan.source
  • 1972February 21–28 – U.S. President Richard Nixon makes an unprecedented 8-day visit to the People's Republic of China and meets with Mao Zedong.source
  • 1972A fire at the Pirani Building (now the Andraus Building), leaves 16 dead and 330 injured in São Paulo, making it one of the biggest tragedies in the city's history.source
  • 1980The shekel replaces the Israeli pound.source
  • 1981A powerful Ms magnitude earthquake hits Athens, killing 22 people, injuring 400 people and destroying several buildings and 4,000 houses, mostly in Corinth and the nearby towns of Loutraki, Kiato and Xylokastro.source
  • 1981The 6.7 Ms Gulf of Corinth earthquake shook the area with a maximum Mercalli intensity of VIII (Severe), killing 22, injuring 400, and causing $812 million in damage.source
  • 1982In South Africa, 22 National Party MPs, led by Andries Treurnicht, vote for no confidence in P. W. Botha.source
  • 1984Luxembourgish is declared to be the 'national language' of Luxembourg, and one of the three official languages, alongside French and German.source
  • 19851985 North Korean local electionssource
  • 1989The Satanic Verses controversy: Iran places a $3,000,000 bounty on the head of The Satanic Verses author Salman Rushdie.source
  • 1989United Airlines Flight 811, a Boeing 747, suffers uncontrolled decompression after leaving Honolulu International Airport; nine passengers are blown out of the cabin to their deaths.source
  • 1989Singing Revolution: After 44 years, the Estonian flag is raised at the Pikk Hermann tower in Tallinn.source
  • 1989The state funeral of Emperor Shōwa (Hirohito) in Tokyo is attended by leaders and representatives of 160 nations.source
  • 1994In Gloucester, England, local police begin excavations at 25 Cromwell Street, the home of Fred West, a suspect in multiple murders. On February 28, he and his wife are arrested.source
  • 1996Cuban fighter jets shoot down two American aircraft belonging to the Cuban exile group Brothers to the Rescue. Cuban officials assert that they invaded Cuban airspace.source
  • 2000February 23–March 7 – Mayon volcano in Albay erupts, with the most violent occurred, February 28 – March 1; its status is raised to the highest, Alert Level 5, on February 24 due to its hazardous explosions with pyroclastic and lahar flows that affected parts of the province, with several thousands evacuated even outside identified danger zones.source
  • 20032003 Bachu earthquake: A 6.8 Mwearthquake strikes in Xinjiang, killing 257 people.source
  • 2004The Rotterdam Convention comes into force.source
  • 2005Thousands greet Abdullahi Yusuf Ahmed and Mohammed Ghedi, leaders of the exiled Somali government, when they begin a week-long tour in the country. They led a delegation that studies a possibility to finally relocate the government from Kenya to Somalia.source
  • 2014The McDonnell Douglas DC-10 operates its last passenger flight, signaling the end to a bygone era of aviation.source
  • 2015The Uherský Brod shootingsource
  • 2019the 2019 Tour du Rwanda begins.source
  • 2020The Pakatan Harapan coalition government of Malaysia collapses and is replaced by the Perikatan Nasional coalition. Muhyiddin Yassin becomes the eighth Prime Minister of Malaysia on March 1.source
  • 2021COVID-19 pandemic: the COVAX vaccine-sharing initiative delivers its first vaccines, delivering 600,000 doses for healthcare workers in Ghana.source
  • 2022February 21 – February 24 – Russian President Vladimir Putin signs a decree declaring the Luhansk People's Republic and Donetsk People's Republic as independent from Ukraine, and, despite international condemnation and sanctions, launched the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine; at dawn on 24 February missiles strike Kyiv. Ukraine severs diplomatic relations with Russia, followed by the Federated States of Micronesia on 25 February.source
  • 2022The Dow Jones, Nasdaq, and S&P 500 fall sharply in response to Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine. Oil prices exceed $100 a barrel for the first time since 2014.source
  • 2023Gambian president Adama Barrow appoints Muhammad B.S. Jallow as the country's new vice-president after the previous one, Badara Joof, died last month in India.source
  • 20232023 Vaimauga 3 by-electionsource
  • 2024At a summit in Abuja, ECOWAS lifts sanctions on Niger, however still wanting the release of Mohamed Bazoum and his family.source

Births

  • 1103Toba, emperor of Japan (died 1156)source
  • 1122Wanyan Liang, Chinese emperor (died 1161)source
  • 1166Al-Mansur Abdallah, Zaidi imam (died 1217)source
  • 1304Ibn Battuta, Moroccan scholar and explorer (died 1369)source
  • 1413Louis, Duke of Savoy (died 1465)source
  • 1463Giovanni Pico della Mirandola, Italian philosopher (died 1494)source
  • 1500Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor (died 1558)source
  • 1535Eléanor de Roye, noblewoman (d.1564)source
  • 1536Pope Clement VIII (died 1605)source
  • 1547Don John of Austria, military leader (died 1578)source
  • 1557Mathias, Holy Roman Emperor (died 1619)source
  • 1567Jindřich Matyáš Thurn, Swedish general (died 1640)source
  • 1567Jindřich Matyáš Thurn, Swedish general (died 1640)source
  • 1604Arcangela Tarabotti, born Elena Tarabotti, Venetian nun and feminist (died 1652)source
  • 1611February 24? (bapt. March 4) – William Dobson, English portrait painter (died 1646)source
  • 1613Mattia Preti, Italian painter (died 1699)source
  • 1619Charles Le Brun, French painter and art theorist (died 1690)source
  • 1619Robert Aske, merchant in the City of London (died 1689)source
  • 1622Johannes Clauberg, German theologian and philosopher (died 1665)source
  • 1660John Murray, 1st Duke of Atholl (died 1724)source
  • 1664February 24 (baptized) – Thomas Newcomen, English inventor (died 1729)source
  • 1687Isham Randolph of Dungeness, American planter (died 1742)source
  • 1697Bernhard Siegfried Albinus, German anatomist (died 1770)source
  • 1709Jacques de Vaucanson, French inventor of mechanical automata (died 1782)source
  • 1722John Burgoyne, British army officer, playwright and politician (died 1792)source
  • 1772William H. Crawford, American politician, judge (died 1834)source
  • 1810(in England): William Mason, architect.source
  • 1831Leo von Caprivi, Chancellor of Germany (died 1899)source
  • 1836Winslow Homer, American painter (died 1910)source
  • 1843Teófilo Braga, Portuguese writer, playwright and politician (died 1924)source
  • 1843Teófilo Braga, playwright and politician (died 1924)source
  • 1938Manuel de Novas (died 2009), poet and composersource
  • 1948Jayalalithaa, Indian politician, film actress (died 2016)source
  • 1955Steve Jobs, American businessman and founder of Apple Computer (died 2011)source
  • 1956Judith Butler, American philosophersource
  • 1977Floyd Mayweather Jr., American boxing championsource

Deaths

  • 616Æthelberht, king (bretwalda) of Kentsource
  • 616Æthelberht, the first Christian Anglo-Saxon king, dies in Kent after a 26-year reign. He is succeeded by his pagan son, Eadbald, who promptly marries his stepmother Emma, in accordance with pre-Christian custom.source
  • 951Liu Yun, Chinese governor (jiedushi)source
  • 1018Borrell, bishop of Vic (Spain)source
  • 1114Thomas II, archbishop of Yorksource
  • 1240Egidia de Lacy, Lady of Connacht, Norman noblewomansource
  • 1496Eberhard I, Duke of Württemberg (born 1445)source
  • 1525Louis II de la Trémoille, French military leader (born 1460) — in action at the Battle of Paviasource
  • 1525Richard de la Pole, last Yorkist claimant to the English throne (born 1480) — in action at the Battle of Paviasource
  • 1525Bartolomeo Fanfulla, Italian mercenary (born 1477) — in action at the Battle of Paviasource
  • 1525Galéas de Saint-Séverin, French-Italian condottiere (born 1460s)source
  • 1525Louis II de la Trémoille, French general (born 1460)source
  • 1525Guillaume Gouffier, French army commander (born 1488)source
  • 1530Properzia de' Rossi, Italian Renaissance sculptor (born c. 1490)source
  • 1563François, Duke of Guise, French soldier and politician (shot) (born 1519)source
  • 1580Henry FitzAlan, 19th Earl of Arundel, English nobleman (born 1511)source
  • 1588Johann Weyer, Dutch physician and occultist (born 1515)source
  • 1645Philip VII, Count of Waldeck-Wildungen (1638–1645) (born 1613)source
  • 1680The German Duchy of Saxe-Coburg is divided by treaty among the sons of the late Ernest I, Duke of Saxe-Gotha, who had died in 1675. The oldest son, Frederick, receives Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg. The rest is divided among Albert (Duke of Saxe-Coburg); Bernhard (Saxe-Meiningen); Henry (Saxe-Römhild); Christian (Saxe-Eisenberg); Ernest (Saxe-Hildburghausen); and John Ernest (Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld).source
  • 1685Archduchess Isabella Clara of Austria, Austrian archduchess (born 1629)source
  • 1689Elsa Elisabeth Brahe, duchess (born 1632)source
  • 1704Marc-Antoine Charpentier, French composer (born 1643)source
  • 1714Edmund Andros, English governor in North America (born 1637)source
  • 1716Jacobite leaders James Radclyffe, 3rd Earl of Derwentwater and William Gordon, 6th Viscount of Kenmure are executed in London.source
  • 1721John Sheffield, 1st Duke of Buckingham and Normanby, English statesman and poet (born 1648)source
  • 1769Johan von Mangelsen, military officer and businessperson (born 1694).source
  • 1777King Joseph I of Portugal (born 1714)source
  • 1777King Joseph I of Portugal dies, and is succeeded by his daughter Maria I of Portugal, and his brother and son-in-law Peter III of Portugal.source
  • 1799Georg Christoph Lichtenberg, German scientist, satirist, and Anglophile (born 1742)source
  • 1810Henry Cavendish, British scientist (born 1731)source
  • 1815Robert Fulton, American inventor (born 1765)source
  • 1899Emil Welti, politician (born 1825)source
  • 1943February 23–24 – Cavan Orphanage Fire: 35 girls and a cook from St Joseph's Orphanage, an industrial school at Cavan, Ireland, are killed in a fire in their dormitories. A subsequent inquiry absolves the Poor Clares of blame.source
  • 1953Gerd von Rundstedt, German field marshal (born 1875)source