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February 25 in history

227 sourced entries recorded on February 25, from 515 BCE to 2025 CE. Every line is quoted from the revision it came from.

Events

  • 515 BCEThe Second Temple in Jerusalem is completed.source
  • 138Emperor Hadrian makes Antoninus Pius his successor, on condition that he adopt Marcus Aurelius and Lucius Verus.source
  • 493Odoacer surrenders Ravenna after a 3-year siege, and agrees to a mediated peace with Theodoric the Great, who steadily consolidates his rule and provides security for the local population. His achievement is to manage the transformation of Italy from being the center of a fractured Roman Empire to a successful and independent Ostrogothic Kingdom.source
  • 520Epiphanius is elected patriarch of Constantinople by Byzantine Emperor Justin I.source
  • 529Kʼan Joy Chitam I becomes the new ruler of the Mayan city-state of Palenque what is now the state of Chiapas in southern Mexico, ending an interregnum of a little over four years, and reigns until his death in 565.source
  • 628Khosrau II, the last great king of the Sasanian Empire, is overthrown by his son Kavadh II.source
  • 1025(23 Dhu l-Hijja 415 AH) In the Fatimid Caliphate, Badr al-Dawla Nafidh leads a group of Egyptian soldiers and white slave soldiers from Cairo to end a black slave rebellion in the famine-stricken Egyptian capital, Fustat.source
  • 1123Japan's Emperor Toba abdicates in favor of his 3-year-old son Sutoku after a 16-year reign. The retired Emperor Shirakawa rules as regent during Toba's minority.source
  • 1212The Treaty of Pont-à-Vendin is signed at Pont-à-Vendin between king Philip II of France and Ferdinand, Count of Flanders and Joan, Countess of Flanders. The treaty cedes the two captured towns of Saint-Omer and Aire-sur-la-Lys to France.source
  • 1216Pope Innocent III confirms union of the vacant episcopal see of the Bishop of Glendalough with that of the Archbishop of Dublin (Henry de Loundres).source
  • 1226(Karoku 2, 27th day of 1st month) In Japan, 8-year-old Kujō Yoritsune is raised to the status of the Shōgun Fujiwara no Yoritsune of the Kamakura shogunate by the Emperor Go-Horikawa, but the power over the Imperial military remains with the regent Hōjō Yoshitoki.source
  • 1255Battle of Montebruno: Guelph forces under Thomas II of Savoy invade the Ghibelline territory of Asti (located in the Piedmont region), but he is defeated by the Astigiani army, led by William VII, at Garzigliana (Northern Italy). Thomas retreats and takes refuge in Turin; however, he is later captured by the Ghibellines.source
  • 1299Sultan Alauddin Khalji orders the army (some 35,000 men) to prepare for the march to Gujarat. One part of the army under Nusrat Khan starts its march from Delhi. Another part, led by Ulugh Khan, marches from Sindh and attacks Jaisalmer along the way. When the army returns from raiding Gujarat, Mongol soldiers stage a mutiny over payment of khums (one-fifth of the share of loot). The mutiny is crushed, the mutineer families in Delhi are punished and executed.source
  • 1308Edward II is crowned at Westminster Abbey under the guidance of Henry Woodlock, bishop of Winchester. During the ceremony, Piers Gaveston is given the honour of carrying the crown. At the banquet that followed, Edward spends more time with Gaveston than with his wife Isabella of France. Isabella's family, who have travelled with her from France, leave to report back to Philip IV of Edward's favouritism for Gaveston over Isabella. As part of the coronation, Edward swears an oath to uphold "the rightful laws and customs which the community of the realm shall have chosen".source
  • 1323The Earl of Carlisle is arrested at Carlisle Castle by the Castle's warden, Anthony de Lucy, on charges of treason and turned over to the custody of King Edward II of England.source
  • 1336The Kenmu Restoration ends and the Muromachi period begins in Japan; start of the Nanboku-chō period.source
  • 1336Rather than be taken captive by the Teutonic Knights, 4,000 defenders of Pilėnai, Lithuania commit mass suicide.source
  • 1382The English Parliament adjourns after a seession of almost four months that had started on 30-day session that began on November 3. Among the laws given royal assent by King Richard II are the Treason Act 1381, the Forcible Entry Act 1381 and the confirmations of the liberty of the church, prohibition of the exportation of gold or silver without permission, and setting of price ceilings on wine.source
  • 1441Elizabeth of Luxembourg, widow of the late King Albert of Hungary presents the Crown of St. Stephen to Frederick, King of Germany and invites him to take the throne, although Hungary's nobles had elected King Władysław III of Poland as King Laszlo of Hungary.source
  • 1445The English Parliament is opened by King Henry VI. On the first day, the House of Commons elects William Burley as its Speaker.source
  • 1456The Treaty of Yazhelbitsy is signed between the Grand Principality of Moscow (led by Grand Prince Vasily II) and the Novgorod Republic (governed by Vasily Shuisky) with Vasily II becoming the Prince of Novgorod.source
  • 1456Richard, Duke of York is dismissed as Lord Protector, effectively regent for the King, for the second time.source
  • 1456As King Henry VI of England recovers from a three-month bout with mental illness, Richard Plantagenet, Duke of York steps down as Protector of the Realm and the King resumes his duties. The Duke of York had served as regent since November 19, and had previously been Lord Protector for 10 months during 1454 and 1455.source
  • 1516In his capacity as Lord of Ireland, Henry VIII opens the first of six assemblies of parliament during his reign of the Parliament of Ireland at Dublin. The parliament holds three sessions, ending on October 2, when it is dismissed.source
  • 1523Battle of al-Shihr on the Arabian Peninsula (in what is now Yemen): Troops from Portugal fight against the Kathiri Sultanate, ruled by the Emir Mutran bin Mansur. After a battle of one day, the Portuguese sack the capital, Al-Shihr, and establish a port on the Indian Ocean.source
  • 1526The Battle of Hisar Firoza is fought in what is now the Indian state of Haryana, between the Mughal Empire (whose army is led by Prince Humayun) and the Delhi Sultanate, led by Hamid Khan. Humayun, in his first command, leads the Mughals to victory.source
  • 1550(10th day of 2nd month of Tenbun 19) In Oita, Ōita Prefecture, an attack within the Ōtomo clan of Japanese samurai takes place after clan leader Ōtomo Yoshikazu seeks to disinherit his oldest son and to make his third son, Ōtomo Shioichimaru, as his designated successor. Supporters of the oldest son, Ōtomo Yoshishige, invade Yoshikazu's home and kill Shioichimaru and four other family members.source
  • 1570Pope Pius V excommunicated Queen Elizabeth I of England with the papal bull Regnans in Excelsis.source
  • 1591Poet Edmund Spenser is granted an annual pension of 50 pounds sterling by Queen Elizabeth I of England in recognition of his publication of The Faerie Queen. The pension is paid in quarterly installments of 12s. 10d. on March 25, June 24, September 29 and December 25.source
  • 1595The Goa state archives are established at the city of Panaji in Portuguese India (now India's Goa state) by historian Diogo do Couto.source
  • 1601The Earl of Essex becomes the first of the Essex's Rebellion participants to be executed. He is beheaded at Tower Hill. His co-conspirator, the Earl of Southampton, sentenced to death, but Queen Elizabeth commutes his penalty to life imprisonment; Southampton will be released two years later.source
  • 1603Dutch–Portuguese War: the Portuguese ship Santa Catarina is seized by Dutch East India Company ships off Singapore.source
  • 1605Admiral Steven van der Hagen leads a fleet of ships for the Dutch East India Company and makes the first capture of land for the Netherlands in what will become the Dutch East Indies, and later Indonesia. Hagen's men capture the Portuguese citadel of Forte Amboino and the rest of Ambon Island, and make it the capital of the Dutch possessions in Asia.source
  • 1623Thirty Years' War: Duke Maximilian I of Bavaria becomes Elector of the Electorate of the Palatinate.source
  • 1633Arrest of Charles de L'Aubespine, Keeper of the Seals of France; he is imprisoned at Angoulême. On the same day his friend François de Rochechouart, chevalier de Jars, is imprisoned in the Bastille.source
  • 1634Rebel Scots and Irish soldiers assassinate Bohemian military leader Albrecht von Wallenstein at Cheb.source
  • 1667During the Second Anglo-Dutch War, a Dutch Navy force commanded by Admiral Abraham Crijnssen arrives at the English colony of Surinam in South America and sails up the Suriname River to Fort Willoughby (later Fort Zeelandia at Paramaribo). Bombardment of the fort begins the next day, and its commander, William Byam surrenders, effectively giving control of Surinam to the Dutch Republic. The cession is confirmed with the signing of the Peace of Breda on July 31.source
  • 1667During the Second Anglo-Dutch War, a Dutch Navy force commanded by Admiral Abraham Crijnssen arrives at the English South American colony of Surinam and sails up the Suriname River to Fort Willoughby (Paramaribo). Bombardment of the fort begins the next day, and its commander, William Byam surrenders, effectively giving control of Surinam to the Dutch Republic.source
  • 1672Willem, Prince of Orange, the 21-year-old Stadtholder of Gelderland and Utrecht, is approved by the States General of the Dutch Republic to command the Dutch States Army for the impending war with England.source
  • 1672Willem, Prince of Orange, the 21-year-old Stadtholder of Gelderland and Utrecht and future King William III of England, is approved by the States General of the Dutch Republic to command the Dutch States Army for the impending war with England. On 4 July he is appointed Stadtholder of Holland and Zeeland.source
  • 1672February 25 (6 March N.S.) – John O'Molony is consecrated as Roman Catholic Bishop of Killaloe in Paris.source
  • 1675Netherlands scientist Christiaan Huygens files drawings of his invention of the balance spring, the key component to the accuracy of portable clocks and pocket watches, in a letter to the Journal des Sçavants.source
  • 1705George Frideric Handel's opera Nero premieres in Hamburg.source
  • 1713Frederick William I of Prussia begins his reign.source
  • 1729James Oglethorpe M.P. begins service as the Chairman of the Gaols Committee to investigate the conditions of Britain's gaols and prisons after the death in Fleet Prison of his friend, Robert Castell. The Oglethorpe Committee's report propels him to notability and marks a start to British penal reforms.source
  • 1729James Oglethorpe, a member of the British House of Commons, begins service as the Chairman of the Gaols Committee to investigate the conditions of Britain's jails and prisons after the death in Fleet Prison of his friend, Robert Castell. The Oglethorpe Committee's report propels Oglethorpe to fame and leads to the beginning of British penal reforms.source
  • 1732John Stackhouse is appointed by the British East India Company as the new President of the Bengal Presidency and serves for seven years.source
  • 1754Guatemalan Sergeant Major Melchor de Mencos y Varón departs the city of Santiago de los Caballeros de Guatemala with an infantry battalion to fight British pirates that are reportedly disembarking on the coasts of Petén (modern-day Belize), and sacking the nearby towns.source
  • 175511-year-old David Allan begins to study painting at the new Foulis Academy in Glasgow.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
  • 1790North Carolina cedes its western territories (modern day Tennessee) to the federal government.source
  • 1793George Washington holds the first Cabinet meeting as President of the United States.source
  • 1797William Tate surrenders to the British at Fishguard.source
  • 1798John Hunter names Bass Strait in honour of George Bass.source
  • 1803A major redistribution of territorial sovereignty within the Holy Roman Empire is enacted, via an act known as the Reichsdeputationshauptschluss.source
  • 1803A major redistribution of territorial sovereignty within the Holy Roman Empire is enacted via an act known as the Reichsdeputationshauptschluss.source
  • 1806The Lady Nelson leaves Port Jackson to return Te Pahi and his sons to the Bay of Islands. Te Pahi has been given bricks and a frame for a European house, and other goods. During the journey Te Pahi becomes ill and is nursed by ex-convict George Bruce.source
  • 1809Battle of Valls: Spanish forces are defeated in Catalonia by Marshal Laurent de Gouvion Saint-Cyr.source
  • 1831Battle of Olszynka Grochowska (Grochów): Polish rebel forces divide a Russian army.source
  • 1832The first railway charter in Canada is issued for the Champlain and St. Lawrence Railroad.source
  • 1836Samuel Colt receives a United States patent for the Colt revolver, the first revolving barrel multishot firearms.source
  • 1837Thomas Davenport obtains the first United States patent on an electric motor.source
  • 1837In Philadelphia, the Institute for Colored Youth (ICY) is founded, as the first institution for the higher education of black people in the United States.source
  • 1841Circular from the Minister of Finances Georges Humann to prefects requiring a general census of property in every commune for a door and window tax. This leads to criticism in the press and unrest in cities across the country from 7 July to 10 September.source
  • 1843Paulet Affair: Lord George Paulet occupies the Kingdom of Hawaii in the name of Great Britain.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
  • 1847State University of Iowa is founded in Iowa City, Iowa.source
  • 1852HMS Birkenhead sinks near Cape Town, British Cape Colony. Only 193 of the 643 on board survive, after troops stand firm on the deck so as not to overwhelm the lifeboats containing women and children.source
  • 1852HMS Birkenhead sinks near Cape Town, British Cape Colony. Only 193 of the 643 on board survive, after troops stand firm on the deck so as not to overwhelm the lifeboats containing women and children.source
  • 1855The steamship Morna is wrecked off North Bishop Rock, with the loss of 21 lives.source
  • 1860£11,000 collected at church doors in Dublin to finance the Pope's defence against the Risorgimento in Italy; £80,000 collected nationwide (the equivalent of several millions of modern-day Euros).source
  • 1863William Thomson enthroned as Archbishop of York.source
  • 1864The first Northern prisoners arrive at the Confederate prison at Andersonville, Georgia (the 500 prisoners had left Richmond, Virginia, seven days before).source
  • 1869The Iron and Steel Institute is formed in London.source
  • 1870Hiram Rhodes Revels, a Republican from Mississippi, is sworn into the United States Senate, becoming the first African American to sit in the U.S. Congress.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 Seamen's Association of 1856's new building in Christianshavn is inaugurated.source
  • 1875The majority of the Yavapai (Wipukyipai) and Tonto Apache (Dil Zhéé) tribes are forced by the United States Cavalry, under command of Brigadier General George Crook, to walk at gunpoint from Arizona's Verde Valley, to the San Carlos Apache Indian Reservation, 180 miles to the southeast. The two tribes are not allowed to return to the Verde Valley until 1900.source
  • 1875The majority of the Yavapai (Wipukyipai) and Tonto Apache (Dil Zhéé) tribes are forced by the U.S. Cavalry under command of Brigadier General George Crook to walk at gunpoint from the Arizona's Verde Valley to the San Carlos Apache Indian Reservation, 180 miles to the southeast. The two tribes are not allowed to return to the Verde Valley until 1900.source
  • 1880The Resurgam, an early mechanically-powered submarine, sinks off Rhyl.source
  • 1881Phoenix, Arizona, is incorporated.source
  • 1882John Price becomes the first Welsh footballer to score a hat-trick in an international match, when he produces four of the goals in a 7–1 win against Ireland.source
  • 1889The landmark court decision in the case of The Moorcock establishes the concept of implied terms in English contract law.source
  • 1889The landmark court decision in the case of The Moorcock establishes the concept of implied terms in English contract law.source
  • 1897Commune of Providencia is established.source
  • 1901U.S. Steel is incorporated by industrialist J. P. Morgan, as the first billion-dollar corporation.source
  • 1901U.S. Steel, the first billion-dollar corporation and at some time the world's largest producer of steel, is incorporated by industrialist J. P. Morgan.source
  • 1909Mahatma Gandhi is arrested at Volksrust for failure to produce a registration certificate and is sentenced to 3 months imprisonment.source
  • 1915Armenian genocide: The Ottoman Empire transfers Armenians from its armed forces to unarmed Ottoman labour battalions.source
  • 1917At a national congress of the Italian Socialist Party (PSI) in Rome the division between reformists and hard-liners increases; only the approval of an agenda proposed by Costantino Lazzari manages to avoid fracture.source
  • 1918February 19–25 – WWI: The Imperial Russian Navy evacuates Tallinn through thick ice, over the Gulf of Finland.source
  • 1919Oregon places a one cent per US gallon (0.26¢/liter) tax on gasoline, becoming the first U.S. state to levy a gasoline tax.source
  • 1921Red Army invasion of Georgia: The Red Army enters the Georgian capital Tbilisi and occupies the country, installing a new government and proclaiming the Georgian Soviet Republic.source
  • 1921Elizabeth Fedde, Lutheran Deaconess who established the Norwegian Relief Society (born 1850)source
  • 1925Art Gillham records (for Columbia Records) the first Western Electric masters to be commercially released.source
  • 1925Adolf Hitler makes his first public appearance since being released from prisonsource
  • 1928Charles Jenkins Laboratories of Washington, D.C., becomes the first holder of a television license from the Federal Radio Commission.source
  • 1932Adolf Hitler obtains German citizenship by naturalization, opening the opportunity for him to run in the 1932 German presidential election.source
  • 1933Arminda de Jesus is burned for witchcraft in Soalhães, Portugal.source
  • 1934Mahatma Gandhi visits Udupi.source
  • 1937Hergé's Tintin adventure The Broken Ear (L'Oreille cassée) concludes serialization in the Belgian weekly newspaper supplement Le Petit Vingtième, and soon afterwards is published as a book in black and white.source
  • 1941The occupied Netherlands starts the first popular uprising in Europe against the Axis powers, the "February strike" against German deportation of Jews in Amsterdam and surroundings.source
  • 1941British submarine HMS Upright attacks an Italian convoy, sinking the cruiser Armando Diaz off Tunisia.source
  • 1942"Battle of Los Angeles": Over 1,400 AA shells are fired at an unidentified, slow-moving object (probably a meteorological balloon) in the skies over Los Angeles. The appearance of the object triggers an immediate wartime blackout over most of Southern California, with thousands of air raid wardens being deployed throughout the city. At least 5 deaths are related to the incident. Despite the several-hour barrages no planes are downed.source
  • 1947The German state of Prussia is officially abolished, by the Allied Control Council.source
  • 1947John C. Hennessy Jr. brings the first Volkswagen Beetle to the United States. He purchased the 1946 automobile from the U.S. Army Post Exchange in Frankfurt, Germany, while serving in the U.S. Army. The Beetle is shipped from Bremerhaven, arriving in New York this day.source
  • 1947Hachikō Line derailment: The worst-ever train accident in Japan kills 184 people.source
  • 1947Hachikō Line derailmentsource
  • 19481948 Czechoslovak coup d'état: Edvard Beneš, President of Czechoslovakia, cedes control of the country to the Communist Party, a day celebrated by that regime as "Victorious February" (Vítězný únor; Víťazný Február) until November 1989.source
  • 1948The United Nations Economic and Social Council creates, under resolution 106 five regional economic commissions, whose objective is to help and collaborate with the governments of the respective territories in the investigation and analysis of regional and national economic issues. One of the five regional economic commissions was the Economic Commission for Latin America (in 1984 it was extended to the Caribbean), whose headquarters will be located in the city of Santiago.source
  • 1951The first Pan American Games open in Buenos Aires.source
  • 1952The Parícutin active volcano in Michoacán, west central Mexico, ceases its discontinuous eruption after spewing forth a gigaton of lava, and burying San Juan Parangaricutiro.source
  • 1952February 14–25 – The Winter Olympics are held in Oslo, Norway.source
  • 1954Lt. Col. Gamal Abdel Nasser becomes premier of Egypt.source
  • 1956February 14–25 – The 20th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union is held in Moscow.source
  • 1956Nikita Khrushchev attacks the veneration of Joseph Stalin, in a speech "On the Cult of Personality and Its Consequences", at a secret session concluding the 20th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. This is not officially made public in the Soviet Union at this time but becomes known in the West in June.source
  • 1956Jacob Levitzki (born 1904), Russian (Ukraine)-born Israeli mathematician.source
  • 1956Nikita Khrushchev makes the speech On the Cult of Personality and Its Consequences at the 20th Congress of the CPSU.source
  • 1958Bertrand Russell launches the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament in the United Kingdom, initiated at a meeting called by Canon John Collins on January 15. The campaign peace symbol has been launched on 21 February by Gerald Holtom. Protests will focus on the Atomic Weapons Research Establishment at Aldermaston.source
  • 1961Germany in the Eurovision Song Contest 1961source
  • 1964Cassius Clay (later Muhammad Ali) beats Sonny Liston in Miami Beach, Florida, and is crowned the heavyweight champion of the world.source
  • 1967Britain's second Polaris missile submarine, HMS Renown, is launched.source
  • 1968Incumbent President Makarios III won the presidential elections with 96.3% of the vote. Voter turnout was 93.5%.source
  • 1971A partial solar eclipse is visible from Europe, Africa and Asia, and is the 18th solar eclipse of Solar Saros 149.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
  • 1975Establishment of Bangladesh Krishak Sramik Awami League (BAKSAL) led by Mujib as the single legitimate political party.source
  • 1978The first Legislative Assembly election is held in Arunachal Pradesh, India.source
  • 1980A coup in Suriname ousts the government of Henck Arron; leaders Dési Bouterse and Roy Horb replace it with a National Military Council.source
  • 1982The European Court of Human Rights rules that teachers who cane, belt or tawse children against the wishes of their parents are in breach of the Human Rights Convention.source
  • 1984The League of Communists in the Netherlands is established after a rift in the Communist Party of the Netherlandssource
  • 1985Tears for Fears release their second studio album, Songs from the Big Chair, which includes the hit singles "Shout" and "Everybody Wants to Rule the World."source
  • 1986People Power Revolution: President Ferdinand Marcos of the Philippines is ousted from power and goes into exile in Hawaii after 20 years of dictatorial rule; Corazon Aquino becomes the first Filipino woman president and forms an interim government with Salvador Laurel becoming her Vice-president and Prime Minister.source
  • 1986A three-day riot begins in Cairo, Egypt when around 25,000 conscripts of the Central Security Forces (CSF), staged protests in and around the city. Three luxury hotels, several nightclubs, restaurants and cars were looted and burned in the tourist districts near the Pyramids over several days. The riot became known as the Egyptian Conscripts Riot. At least 25 people died during the first day in Cairo, and an estimated 8,000 people, mostly conscripts in regions outside the city, were killed in total.source
  • 1986The 27th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union opens in Moscow. The General Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev introduces the keywords of his mandate to the audience: Glasnost and Perestroika.source
  • 1987The U.S. Supreme Court rules in United States v. Paradise that affirmative action is lawful if the organization in question has a history of pervasive racial discrimination in hiring practices; in this case, police departments in the state of Alabama. Justice William J. Brennan, Jr. rules that the government is "justified by a compelling governmental interest in eradicating the Department's pervasive, systematic, and obstinate discriminatory exclusion of blacks."source
  • 1987Beginning of the Phosphorite War protest movement in the Estonian SSR.source
  • 1987The Central Bank of Brazil decides to intervene in banks in the states of Maranhão, Ceará, Mato Grosso, Rio de Janeiro and Santa Catarina.source
  • 1988The constitution of the Sixth Republic of Korea comes into effect.source
  • 1990The Sandinistas are defeated in the Nicaraguan elections, with Violeta Chamorro elected as the new president of Nicaragua (the first elected woman president in the Americas), replacing Daniel Ortega.source
  • 1992February 25–26 – 613 Azerbaijani civilians are massacred in Khojaly.source
  • 1994Israeli Kahanist Baruch Goldstein opens fire inside the Cave of the Patriarchs in the West Bank; he kills 29 Muslims before worshippers beat him to death.source
  • 1994Cave of the Patriarchs massacre: Israeli Kahanist Baruch Goldstein opens fire inside the Cave of the Patriarchs, Hebron, in the West Bank; he kills 29 Muslims.source
  • 1995The Amazon Cooperation Treaty Organization (ACTO) (Organización del Tratado de Cooperación Amazónica [OTCA]) is formed.source
  • 1996Ashkelon bus station bombing: Killing two Israelis. Hamas claims responsibility for the bombing.source
  • 1998Alaska v. Native Village of Venetie Tribal Government: The SCOTUS rules against the Neets'aii Gwich'in Indian nation, who had been levying taxes on non-natives in order to fund a local airstrip; the Court ruled that only the federal and state governments may collect taxes.source
  • 1999A legionellosis outbreak occurs in Bovenkarspel.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
  • 2002Good Morning Afghanistan begins broadcasting over radio in Dari and Pashto, establishing a national news source for Afghanistan.source
  • 2004Libya's Foreign Minister, Abdulrahman Shalgam, issues a statement reaffirming its acceptance of culpability for the 1988 bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, after the Prime Minister Shukri Ghanem, in an interview for the BBC, claimed Libya had "bought peace" with the $2.7bn compensation payments, but had not accepted guilt.source
  • 2005Halcyonair airline establishedsource
  • 2009Nigeria and Algeria began talks in Abuja about completing a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU). The agreement would implement the Trans Sahara Gas Pipeline, which will transport gas from Nigeria to be delivered to Mediterranean and European gas markets. The gas line will also pass through Niger and Algeria.source
  • 2013Park Geun-hye becomes the first woman to become the president of South Korea.source
  • 2016Voters in Jamaica go to the polls for a general election, with the Jamaican Labour Party, led by Andrew Holness, winning a narrow victory.source
  • 2021The Armenian military calls for prime minister Nikol Pashinyan to resign. Pashinyan accuses the military of attempting a coup d'état.source
  • 2021Morocco is one of four countries added to the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) list of places that are only partially in compliance with international efforts against financing terrorism and money laundering.source
  • 2025An Antonov An-26 of the Sudanese Air Force crashes in a residential area, near the Wadi Seidna Air Base. All 17 occupants onboard and 29 people on the ground died.source

Births

  • 449Liu Ziye, emperor of the Liu Song dynasty (died 466)source
  • 1259Infanta Branca of Portugal, daughter of King Afonso III of Portugal and Urraca of Castile (died 1321)source
  • 1337Wenceslaus I, Duke of Luxembourg, Czech Duke of Luxembourg (died 1383)source
  • 1473Al-Mutawakkil Yahya Sharaf ad-Din, Imam of the Zaidi state in Yemen (died 1555)source
  • 1475Edward Plantagenet, 17th Earl of Warwick, last male member of the House of York (died 1499)source
  • 1540Henry Howard, 1st Earl of Northampton, English aristocrat and courtier (died 1614)source
  • 1543Sharaf Khan Bidlisi, Emir of Bitlis (died 1603)source
  • 1591Friedrich von Spee, German Jesuit and poet (died 1635)source
  • 1643Sultan Ahmed II of the Ottoman Empire (died 1695)source
  • 1651Quirinus Kuhlmann, German Baroque poet and mystic (died 1689)source
  • 1670Maria Margarethe Kirch, German astronomer (died 1720)source
  • 1682Giovanni Battista Morgagni, Italian anatomist (died 1771)source
  • 1683Jakob Benzelius, Archbishop of Uppsala in the Church of Sweden (died 1747)source
  • 1707Carlo Goldoni, Italian playwright (died 1793)source
  • 1711John Perceval, 2nd Earl of Egmont, British politician with Irish connections (died 1770)source
  • 1728John Wood, the Younger, English architect (died 1782)source
  • 1746Charles Cotesworth Pinckney, American politician and soldier (died 1825)source
  • 1752John Graves Simcoe, first lieutenant governor of Upper Canada (d.1806)source
  • 1778José de San Martín, Argentine general (died 1850)source
  • 1816Matías Ramón Mella, Dominican revolutionary and Founding Father of the Dominican Republic (died 1864)source
  • 1841Pierre-Auguste Renoir, French painter (died 1919)source
  • 1842Karl May, German writer (died 1912)source
  • 1845Sir George Reid, 4th Prime Minister of Australia (died 1918)source
  • 1873Enrico Caruso, Italian tenor (died 1921)source
  • 1906Domingo Ortega. (died 1988)source
  • 1925Eduardo Risso, Olympic rowersource
  • 1943George Harrison, English singer, guitarist (The Beatles) (died 2001)source
  • 1949Ric Flair, American professional wrestlersource
  • 1994Eugenie Bouchard, Canadian tennis playersource
  • 1998Rizky Febian, singer-songwriter, actor, TV presenter.source
  • 2005Arda Güler, Turkish football playersource

Deaths

  • 362Reginos, Greek Orthodox bishop and saintsource
  • 805De Zong, emperor of the Tang Dynasty (born 742)source
  • 805Emperor Dezong of Tang dies after a 25-year reign, in which the fanzhen is controlled by military governors or jiedushi, who often ignore imperial decrees. He is succeeded by his son Shunzong, who becomes ruler of the Tang Dynasty.source
  • 806Tarasios, patriarch of Constantinoplesource
  • 891Fujiwara no Mototsune, Japanese regent (born 836)source
  • 891Fujiwara no Mototsune, a Japanese statesman, dies. In his lifetime, he had forced the resignation of Emperor Yōzei and become head of the Fujiwara clan.source
  • 944Lin Ding, Chinese official and chancellorsource
  • 1018Arnulf II, archbishop of Milansource
  • 1100Gerland, bishop of Agrigentosource
  • 1179Adelelm, English Lord High Treasurersource
  • 1220Albert II, margrave of Brandenburg (born 1177)source
  • 1246Dafydd ap Llywelyn, Welsh prince (born 1212)source
  • 1247Henry IV, duke of Limburg (House of Limburg)source
  • 1248Bolesław I of Masovia, Polish prince (born 1208)source
  • 1336Margiris, Duke of Samogitiasource
  • 1495Sultan Cem, pretender to the Ottoman throne (born 1459)source
  • 1522William Lilye, English classical scholar (born c. 1468)source
  • 1536Tyrolean Anabaptist leader Jacob Hutter, founder of the Hutterites, is burned at the stake in Innsbruck for heresy.source
  • 1547Vittoria Colonna, marchioness of Pescara (born 1490)source
  • 1558Eleanor of Austria, Queen of Portugal and France (born 1498)source
  • 1600Sebastian de Aparicio, Spanish colonial industrialist, Roman Catholic priest and blessed in Mexico (born 1502)source
  • 1601Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex, English politician (born 1566)source
  • 1634Albrecht von Wallenstein, Bohemian general (assassinated) (born 1583)source
  • 1655Daniel Heinsius, Flemish scholar (born 1580)source
  • 1682Alessandro Stradella, Italian composer (born 1639)source
  • 1713King Frederick I of Prussia (born 1657)source
  • 1723Sir Christopher Wren, English architect, astronomer and mathematician (born 1632)source
  • 1723Sir Christopher Wren, architect, astronomer and mathematician (born 1632)source
  • 1756Eliza Haywood, English actress, writer (born 1693)source
  • 1774Knud Leem, linguist (born 1697).source
  • 1786Thomas Wright, British astronomer (born 1711)source
  • 1805Thomas Pownall, English colonial statesman (born 1722)source
  • 1831Friedrich Maximilian Klinger, German dramatist and novelist, originator of Sturm und Drang (born 1752)source
  • 1854Ann Walker, English landowner and philanthropist (born 1803)source
  • 1899In an accident at Grove Hill, Harrow, London, England, Edwin Sewell becomes the world's first driver of a petrol-driven vehicle to be killed; his passenger, Major James Richer, dies of injuries three days later.source
  • 1919Oskari Suutala, politician (born 1887)source
  • 1922Henri Désiré Landru, French serial killer (executed) (born 1869)source
  • 1972Syed Muhammed Taifoor, historian and writer (born 1885)source
  • 2001Sir Donald Bradman, 92, Australian cricketer, pneumonia.source
  • 2009Soldiers of Bangladeshi border security force Bangladesh Rifles (BDR) mutiny and take the commanding army officers and their families hostages at the force's headquarters in Pilkhana, Dhaka. 57 army officers are killed along with 17 civilians by the mutineers.source