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February 28 in history

215 sourced entries recorded on February 28, from 202 BCE to 2025 CE. Every line is quoted from the revision it came from.

Events

  • 202 BCELiu Bang declares himself Supreme Emperor of China, officially beginning the Han dynasty.source
  • 256Papyrus Oxyrhynchus 3035, a warrant for the arrest of a Christian, is written.source
  • 870The Fourth Council of Constantinople ends. The Bulgarians are granted an autocephalous archbishopric. with its seat in the capital of Pliska.source
  • 1246Siege of Jaén: Castilian forces, led by King Ferdinand III (the Saint), manage to take the city of Jaén from the Andalucians. In a combined assault with the knights of the Order of Santiago, the city is handed over by Sultan Muhammad I, who accepts Ferdinand's overlordship in exchange for a 20-year truce. The Emirate of Granada becomes a vassal state of the Kingdom of Castile.source
  • 1301Second Mongol invasion of Burma: Five weeks after beginning the siege of Myinsaing with no success, the Mongol invaders launch a major assault, but the Burmese defenders continue their defense for 12 days, leading to a truce.source
  • 1305The 52nd English Parliament assembles.source
  • 1326Frederick the Fair becomes the sole Duke of Austria upon the death of his younger brother, Leopold I of the House of Habsburg.source
  • 1367King Enrique II of Castile sends a letter of challenge to Edward, the Black Prince of England, who has already crossed the Pyrenees into Spain with 27,000 troops, daring him to help King Pedro to reclaim the Castilian throne, prompting Edward to organize an army and invade Spain.source
  • 1379In what is now part of Kazakhstan and Russia, Tulak Khan of Borjigin is confirmed by the Beylerbey Mamai of the Golden Horde, with the approval of the ruler Tokhtamysh, after Mamai arranges the assassination of Tulak's cousin, the former khan.source
  • 1394Richard II of England grants Geoffrey Chaucer 20 pounds a year for life, for his services as a diplomat and Clerk of The King's Works.source
  • 1412The University of St Andrews in Scotland is granted a charter of privilege by the local bishop.source
  • 1453René of Anjou, the Duke of Lorraine since 1431 and former King of Naples, turns control of the Duchy of Lorraine to his son, Jean II, Duke of Calabria.source
  • 1465In the Catalan Civil War, the Battle of Calaf is fought and Pedro V, the self-proclaimed King of Aragon, is defeated near Barcelona by the legitimate King, Juan II.source
  • 1474The Treaty of Utrecht puts an end to the Anglo-Hanseatic War, restoring the status quo that had existed before the war, with the Kingdom of England and the states of the Hanseatic League agreeing to respect each other's trading rights.source
  • 1476In the Swiss Canton of Vaud, after a seven-day siege, Charles the Bold, Duke of Burgundy, obtains the surrender of Swiss Confederacy troops at the garrsion of the village of Grandson (originally Grancione). The surrender had been obtained by the promises of Charles that the lives of the 412 Swiss defenders would be spared if they gave up, but Charles orders that they be executed anyway. Some are hanged, while others are drowned in Lake Neuchâtel over a period of four hours.source
  • 1482The village of Alhama de Granada in Spain is taken by Christian forces, starting the Granada War to expel the Moors from the Iberian Peninsula.source
  • 1488Choe Bu (1454-1504), the Korean Commissioner of Registers for the island of Cheju, shipwrecks on the south east coast of China in Taizhou, Zhejiang.source
  • 1508Louis V becomes the new prince elector of the Palatinate upon the death of his father, Philip.source
  • 1522The Viscount of Lautrec, leader of the French Army, spares the Italian residents of Treviglio from his plan of vengeance for their earlier resistance to the French troops, apparently after witnessing a miracle of seeing a fresco of the Virgin Mary shed tears.source
  • 1522The Viscount of Lautrec, leader of the French Army, spares the Italian residents of Treviglio, apparently after witnessing a miracle of seeing a fresco of the Virgin Mary shed tears.source
  • 1568French Huguenots begin the Siege of Chartres, but fail to take the walled city after 15 days.source
  • 1572In what is now the Rajasthan state in India, Maharana Pratap is crowned as the new Rana of Mewar at the Kingdom's capital at Udaipur after the death of his father, Udai Singh II.source
  • 1579The seizure in September by Willem IV van den Bergh, of the Boxmeer Castle in September in the Netherlands is condemned by the other Dutch members of the Union of Utrecht.source
  • 1580Three Jesuit priests from Portuguese Goa, including Rodolfo Acquaviva, arrive in Agra on the mainland of India as guests of the Mughal Emperor, Akbar the Great, who is curious about Christianity. The Emperor grants land to the Jesuit fathers for the building of the first Roman Catholic Church in the Mughal Empire.source
  • 1624A decree is issued in Norway making it illegal for Jesuits or Roman Catholic monks to be harbored in the country.source
  • 1624A decree made it explicitly illegal for Jesuits and monks to appear in the country.source
  • 1624A decree made it explicitly illegal for Jesuits and monks to appear in the country, with death penalty as a consequence for offenders.source
  • 1633Pierre Séguier becomes Keeper of the Seals of France (until 1650).source
  • 1638The Scottish National Covenant is signed in Edinburgh, Scotland, in opposition to changes to the Church of Scotland proposed by King Charles I.source
  • 1645English Civil War: The Uxbridge armistice talks fail.source
  • 1646Roger Scott is tried in Massachusetts for sleeping in church.source
  • 1651Philip IV prohibits the dissemination or defence of the doctrines condemned by Pope Urban VIII in the 1642 bull In eminentisource
  • 1677During the Franco-Dutch War, the Siege of Valenciennes by the French Army begins in the Spanish Netherlands (modern-day Belgium). The city surrenders on March 17.source
  • 1688The French opera David et Jonathas, composed by Marc-Antoine Charpentier, is performed for the first time.source
  • 1691An annular solar eclipse is visible across the Philippines, North Borneo and eastern Sumatra.source
  • 1704Establishment of the first school open to African-Americans in New York City by Frenchman Elias Neau.source
  • 1710February 28 (Swedish calendar) February 27 (Julian). March 10 (Gregorian) – Battle of Helsingborg: Fourteen thousand Danish invaders, under Jørgen Rantzau, are decisively defeated by an equally large Swedish army, under Magnus Stenbock.source
  • 1714(February 17 old style) Russia's Tsar Peter the Great issues a decree requiring compulsory education in mathematics for children of government officials and nobility, applying to children between the ages of 10 and 15 years old.source
  • 1717February 26–March 6 – What becomes the northeastern United States is paralyzed by a series of blizzards that bury the region.source
  • 1719Farrukhsiyar, the Mughal Emperor of India since 1713, is deposed by the Sayyid brothers, who install Rafi ud-Darajat in his place. In prison, Farrukhsiyar is strangled by assassins on April 19.source
  • 1728Battle of Palkhed: Maratha Peshwa Bajirao I defeats the first Nizam of Hyderabad, Nizam-ul-Mulk.source
  • 1730Vitus Bering returns to the Russian capital of Saint Petersburg after completing the First Kamchatka expedition.source
  • 1749Henry Fielding's comic novel The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling is published in London. Also this year, Fielding becomes magistrate at Bow Street, and first enlists the help of the Bow Street Runners, an early police force (eight men at first).source
  • 1784John Wesley ordains ministers for the Methodist Church in the United States.source
  • 1784John Wesley charters the Methodist Church.source
  • 1787A charter is granted, establishing the institution which will become the University of Pittsburgh.source
  • 1793d'Entrecasteaux expedition leaves Tasmania towards the Friendly Islands, continuing the search for La Pérouse.source
  • 1810The convict ship Ann (second ship of the name), Captain Charles Clarke, arrives in Port Jackson with Samuel Marsden, William Hall, John King, and Ruatara. Ruatara stays with Marsden twice over the next 18 months, his attempt to reach New Zealand having failed. The news of the Boyd massacre delays Marsden's plans for a mission in New Zealand until 1814.source
  • 1817One Goudie and others petition for a monopoly of navigation of Lake Champlain, in Canada, as like U.S. monopolists injure Canadian Commerce, by trading into Canada.source
  • 1821Congress of Laibach formally comes to an end. However the leading participants remain as fresh uprisings break out in Northern Italy and Greece.source
  • 1822Spare- og Laanekassen i Marstal, a savings bank on the island of Ørø, is founded by a group of local residents.source
  • 1823José de la Riva Agüero is sworn as the first president of Peru following a coup against the government of José de la Mar. He only rules 115 days.source
  • 1823Johnson v. McIntosh decided in the Marshall Court, a landmark Supreme Court decision relating to enduring aboriginal title and tribal sovereignty in the United States.source
  • 1827The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad is incorporated, becoming the first railroad in the United States offering commercial transportation of both people and freight.source
  • 1827The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad is incorporated, becoming the first railroad in America offering commercial transportation of both people and freight.source
  • 1832Charles Darwin and the crew of HMS Beagle arrive at South America for the first time.source
  • 1838The Provincial Assembly is installed in Pará.source
  • 1844The "Peacemaker", the largest naval gun in the world, explodes during a demonstration aboard the USS Princeton on the Potomac River, killing six, including Secretary of State Abel P. Upshur and Secretary of the Navy Thomas Walker Gilmer.source
  • 1844A gun on the USS Princeton explodes while the boat is on a Potomac River cruise, killing U.S. Secretary of State Abel Upshur, U.S. Secretary of the Navy Thomas Walker Gilmer and four other people. President John Tyler is below decks and is uninjured.source
  • 1845The United States Congress approves the annexation of Texas.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
  • 1849Regular steamboat service from the west to the east coast of the United States begins, with the arrival of the SS California in San Francisco Bay. The California leaves New York Harbor on October 6, 1848, rounds Cape Horn at the tip of South America, and arrives at San Francisco after the 4-month, 21-day journey.source
  • 1849Regular steamboat service from the west to the east coast of the United States begins with the arrival of the SS California in San Francisco Bay. The California leaves New York Harbor on October 6, 1848, rounds Cape Horn at the tip of South America, and arrives at San Francisco, California after a 4-month-21-day journey.source
  • 1850The University of Utah opens in Salt Lake City.source
  • 1851Formation of an Anti-Transportation League from anti-transportation organisations in Victoria and Tasmania.source
  • 1854The Black Warrior Affair: A ship destined for New York City is detained in Havana, Cuba (under Spanish control at the time). The incident strains U.S.–Spanish relations.source
  • 1855Society of the Holy Cross (SSC) established as an association of Anglo-Catholic priests with a mission to the urban poor under the mastership of Charles Lowder.source
  • 1856Charles Canning, 1st Earl Canning became Governor-General of India (till 21 March 1862)source
  • 1860The Artists Rifles is established, as the 38th Middlesex (Artists) Rifle Volunteer Corps, with headquarters at Burlington House in London.source
  • 1867The United States Congress forbids taxpayer funding of diplomatic envoys to the Holy See (Vatican), begun in 1848, and breaks off relations. Funding resumes, along with relations, in 1984.source
  • 1870The Bulgarian Exarchate is established, by decree of Sultan Abdülaziz of the Ottoman Empire.source
  • 1874at the conclusion of one of the longest cases ever heard in an English court, the defendant in the Tichborne case is convicted of perjury and his counsel, Edward Kenealy, is disbarred.source
  • 1876Third Carlist War: The Carlist forces do not succeed, and the promises are never fulfilled. The Carlist pretender Carlos, Duke of Madrid, goes into exile in France, bringing the conflict to an end after four years.source
  • 1877University of Manitoba founded.source
  • 1878Mississippi State University is created by the Mississippi Legislature (under the name The Agricultural and Mechanical College of the State of Mississippi).source
  • 1883The first vaudeville theater is opened, in Boston, Massachusetts.source
  • 1885February concludes without having a full moon.source
  • 1889Gustava Kielland, author and missionary (born 1800)source
  • 1890The steamship RMS Quetta sinks off Cape York Peninsula, killing 133source
  • 1893USS Indiana, the first battleship in the United States Navy comparable to other nation's battleships of the time, is launched.source
  • 1894Prime Minister Crispi reveals the "evidence" for a widespread conspiracy in parliament: the so-called "International Treaty of Bisacquino", signed by the French Government, the Czar of Russia, Giuseppe De Felice Giuffrida, the anarchists and the Vatican, with the goal to detach Sicily from the rest of the country and put it under a Franco-Russian protectorate. The Radical deputy Felice Cavallotti ridicules the conspiracy of Crispi.source
  • 1904S.L. Benfica, one of the biggest Association Football clubs in Portugal, is founded as Sport Lisboa.source
  • 1904Establishment of S.L. Benficasource
  • 1905Jane Stanford, the co-founder with her husband Leland of Stanford University, is fatally poisoned while visiting the Moana Hotel in Hawaii.source
  • 1913Dikken Zwilgmeyer, writer (born 1853).source
  • 1914The Autonomous Republic of Northern Epirus is proclaimed by ethnic Greeks.source
  • 1921The Kronstadt rebellion is initiated by sailors of the Soviet Navy's Baltic Fleet.source
  • 1921A fascist squad devastates the Camera del lavoro in Triest. Shortly afterwards the Milanese branch of the socialist newspaper Avanti! is burned down.source
  • 1922The Unilateral Declaration of Egyptian Independence by the United Kingdom ends its protectorate over Egypt, and grants the country nominal independence, reserving control of military and diplomatic matters.source
  • 1925The 1925 Charlevoix–Kamouraska earthquake strikes northeastern North America.source
  • 1930Sir C V Raman Received Nobel Prize in Physics.source
  • 1933English cricket team in Australia in 1932–33: The England cricket team wins The Ashes using the controversial bodyline tactic.source
  • 1937Population census in Northern Ireland.source
  • 1945The opening of Central Library of Dornogovi Province.source
  • 1947In Taiwan, civil disorder is put down, with large loss of civilian lives.source
  • 1947Start of February 28 Incident in Taiwansource
  • 1947February 28 incident in Taiwansource
  • 1948The 2nd Congress of the Communist Party of India convenes in Calcutta.source
  • 1948Adoption of United Nations Security Council Resolution 40 and United Nations Security Council Resolution 41 at the United Nations Security Councilsource
  • 1950An airport is opened at Eilat.source
  • 1951Pakistan's first recorded census after gaining its independence from British India concludes.source
  • 1953Greece, Turkey, and Yugoslavia sign the Balkan Pact.source
  • 1953James Watson and Francis Crick of Britain's University of Cambridge announce their discovery of the structure of the DNA molecule.source
  • 1953Near Bayt Jibrin: IDF execute five smugglers from the Gaza Strip.source
  • 195528 February – 1 March – Operation Black Arrow: An IDF operation carried out in Gaza (then under Egyptian control) from 28 February through 1 March 1955. The operation is aimed at the Egyptian army. 38 Egyptian and eight Israeli soldiers are killed during the operation and 30 Egyptians and thirteen Israelis are wounded. According to the Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser, this operation was the main motivation for Egypt's major arms deal with Czechoslovakia in 1955.source
  • 1956the three employers’ organization, Confindustria, Confcommercio and Confagricoltura constitute a coordination committee, Confintesa.source
  • 1958Prestonsburg bus disaster: One of the worst school bus accidents in U.S. history occurs in Kentucky when a school bus hits a truck and falls into a river, resulting in 27 deaths, 26 of them schoolchildren. Twenty-two others are rescued.source
  • 1959At 1:49 PST, Discoverer 1 was launched from Vandenberg Air Force Base to serve as a "north–south polar satellite". The launch was actually the first of the Project CORONA reconnaissance satellites used by the CIA to spy on the Soviet Union. The first launch, and the next 11, were failures. A declassified CIA report concluded that "Today, most people believe the DISCOVERER I landed somewhere near the South Pole."source
  • 1969The 1969 Portugal earthquake hits Portugal, Spain and Morocco.source
  • 1971Evel Knievel sets a world record and jumps 19 cars on a motorbike in Ontario, California.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
  • 1973The Republic of Ireland general election is held. Liam Cosgrave becomes the new Taoiseach.source
  • 1974The British election ended in a hung parliament after the Jeremy Thorpe-led Liberal Party achieves its biggest vote.source
  • 1975In Lomé, Togo, the European Economic Community and 46 African, Caribbean and Pacific countries sign a financial and economic treaty, known as the first Lomé Convention.source
  • 1975The National Liberation Front of Angola (FNLA) approaches the South African Embassy in London and requests 40 to 50 artillery pieces to assist their cause in the Angolan Civil War.source
  • 1975A major tube train crash at Moorgate station, London kills 43 people.source
  • 1976Yahya Petra of Kelantan was installed as the sixth Yang di-Pertuan Agong.source
  • 1976Three people, including a fire officer, are taken to hospital after inhaling fumes from an ammonia leak in Harris Street in the Sydney suburb of Broadway.source
  • 1978Rabbi Shlomo Yosef Zevin (born 1888) Russian (Belarus)-born Orthodox rabbi, founded the Encyclopedia Talmudit.source
  • 1983The final episode of the TV series M*A*S*H, entitled Goodbye, Farewell and Amen, airs on CBS, to a total audience of 121.6 million.source
  • 1985The Provisional Irish Republican Army carries out a mortar attack on the Royal Ulster Constabulary police station at Newry in Northern Ireland. With nine officers dead, it is the highest loss of life for the RUC on a single day.source
  • 1986The Cruzado Plan, an economic plan that establishes a price freeze, is launched. The Brazilian currency is now called the Cruzado, which is equivalent to one thousand Cruzeiros.source
  • 1986Swedish Prime Minister Olof Palme is shot to death on his way home from the cinema in Stockholm, Sweden.source
  • 1987Santa Clara massacre: Armed men break into a house in Santa Clara, Fundación, Magdalena and kidnap a family of 4 and execute them in Puerto Piedra. The perpetrators are never determined.source
  • 1987A Rüppell's vulture chick is hatched at the Milwaukee County Zoo, the first time the animal has been successfully bred in North America.source
  • 1988February 27–29 – Collapse of the Soviet Union: The Sumgait pogrom of Armenians occurs in Sumqayit.source
  • 1988First heart transplant in Turkey (Ankara University)source
  • 1990Final day of the rum ration in the Royal New Zealand Navy, the last in any of the world's navies.source
  • 1992Ownership of the port town of Walvis Bay is transferred from South Africa to Namibia.source
  • 1994Four United States F-16s shoot down four Serbian J-21s over Bosnia and Herzegovina for violation of the Operation Deny Flight and its no-fly zone.source
  • 1997North Hollywood shootout: Two robbers, wearing kevlar body armor, and armed with illegally modified Type 56S rifles with high-capacity magazines and other weapons, injure 20 police officers and civilians in a gun battle. The incident sparks debate on the appropriate firepower for United States patrol officers to have available in similar situations in the future.source
  • 19971997 Turkish military memorandum: As a result of a meeting held by the National Security Council, the Turkish Armed Forces issues a memorandum to adopt more secular criteria. Later on June 18, the Turkish government resigns because of the pressure.source
  • 1998A massacre in Likoshane, FR Yugoslavia starts the Kosovo War.source
  • 1998A study led by Andrew Wakefield is published in The Lancet suggesting an alleged link between MMR vaccine and autism. Now known to be full of data manipulation, the study was instantly controversial and fueled the nascent anti-vaccination movement. Although subsequent large epidemiological research found no link between vaccines and autism, the study contributed – in the following years and decades – to a sharp drop in vaccination rates and the resurgence of measles in several countries. The study, fully retracted in 2010, was later characterised as "perhaps the most damaging medical hoax of the 20th Century".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
  • 2013Benedict XVI resigns as pope, becoming the first to do so since Gregory XII in 1415, and the first to do so voluntarily since Celestine V in 1294.source
  • 2013Acting Monrovia Mayor Mary Broh resigns amidst controversy.source
  • 2014The number of people in the U.S. using mobile devices to access the internet overtook those using desktop computers for the first time, a feat which would be followed globally two years later in 2016.source
  • 2015Early general elections will be held following mediation in the aftermath of the 2014 political crisis.source
  • 2015Lithuania signs a trade agreement to buy liquefied natural gas from the United States in a move aimed at reducing heavy dependence on Russian gas deliveries.source
  • 2019February 27–28 – The 2019 North Korea–United States summit is held in Hanoi, Vietnam. It is the second summit between U.S. President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un.source
  • 2020The Dominican Republic refuses to allow a British cruise ship to dock due to fears of COVID-19. The ship heads to St. Maarten.source
  • 20212021 Salvadoran legislative election: The Nuevas Ideas party wins 56 out of 84 seats in the Legislative Assembly of El Salvador.source
  • 20222022 Russian financial crisis: In an unprecedented move, Switzerland, Monaco, Singapore and South Korea impose unilateral sanctions over Russia including the introduction of export controls and asset freezes.source
  • 2022The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) releases the second part of its Sixth Assessment Report on climate change. It concludes that many impacts are on the verge of becoming "irreversible".source
  • 2022Football governing bodies FIFA and UEFA suspend Russian clubs and national teams from all competitions.source
  • 2023Over 90 Trinidad and Tobago nationals, including at least 56 children, are unlawfully detained in northeast Syria in camps and prisons associated with ISIS.source
  • 2023A train crash in Thessaly, Greece, kills 57 people and injures dozens. The crash leads to nationwide protests and strikes against the condition of Greek railways and their mismanagement.source
  • 2025A meeting between U.S. president Donald Trump and Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy takes place at the White House. Trump and V.P. JD Vance sharply criticise Zelenskyy, raising questions about support for Ukraine, a proposed end to the war, and the country's future in general.source

Births

  • 1119Xi Zong, Chinese emperor (died 1150)source
  • 1155Henry the Young King, son of Henry II (died 1183)source
  • 1261Margaret of Scotland, queen consort of Norway (died 1283)source
  • 1518Francis III of Brittany, Duke of Brittany (died 1536)source
  • 1518Francis III, Duke of Brittany, Duke of Brittany (died 1536)source
  • 1533Michel de Montaigne, French essayist (died 1592)source
  • 1535Cornelius Gemma, Dutch astronomer and astrologer (died 1578)source
  • 1552Joost Bürgi, Swiss clockmaker and mathematician (died 1632)source
  • 1627Aubrey de Vere, 20th Earl of Oxford (died 1703)source
  • 1670Benjamin Wadsworth, American president of Harvard University (died 1737)source
  • 1675Guillaume Delisle, French cartographer (died 1726)source
  • 1683René Antoine Ferchault de Réaumur, French scientist (died 1757)source
  • 1690Alexei Petrovich, Tsarevich of Russia, Russian Tsarevich (died 1718)source
  • 1704Hans Hermann von Katte, Lieutenant of the Prussian Army (died 1730)source
  • 1712Louis-Joseph de Montcalm, French general (died 1759)source
  • 1724George Townshend, 1st Marquess Townshend, British field marshal (died 1807)source
  • 1743René Just Haüy, French "father of modern crystallography" (died 1822)source
  • 1747Justin Morgan, American horse breeder and composer (died 1798)source
  • 1820John Tenniel, English illustrator (died 1914)source
  • 1823Ernest Renan, French philosopher, philologist, historian and writer (died 1892)source
  • 1894Ben Hecht, American playwright, film writer (died 1964)source
  • 1901Linus Pauling, American chemist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry and Peace (died 1994)source
  • 1903Vincente Minnelli, American stage and film director (died 1986)source
  • 1940Mario Andretti, Italian-born American racing driversource
  • 1945Zahir Howaida (died 2012)source
  • 1953Osmo Vänskä, orchestral conductor and musiciansource
  • 1980Kyriaki Papanikolaou, artistic gymnastsource

Deaths

  • 628Khosrau II, king of the Persian Empiresource
  • 911Abu Abdallah al-Shi'i, Muslim Shia missionarysource
  • 1051Humfrid, archbishop of Magdeburgsource
  • 1069Abbad II al-Mu'tadid, Abbadid kingsource
  • 1069King Abbad II al-Mu'tadid dies after a 27-year reign. He is succeeded by his son Al-Mu'tamid ibn Abbad, who becomes the ruler of the Taifa of Seville in Al-Andalus (until 1091).source
  • 1105Raymond IV, French noblemansource
  • 1105Raymond IV dies at his castle of Mons Peregrinus ("Pilgrim's Mountain") near Tripoli. Raymond leaves his 2-year-old son Alfonso I by his third wife, Elvira of Castile, to rule the County of Tripoli. Raymond's nephew William-Jordan, count of Cerdagne, becomes regent over Alfonso. Bertrand, the eldest son of Raymond, inherits the title 'Count of Toulouse'.source
  • 1261Henry III ("the Good"), duke of Brabant (born 1230)source
  • 1292Hugh de Courtenay, English nobleman (born 1251)source
  • 1313John Hastings, English nobleman, knight and peer (born 1262)source
  • 1326Leopold I, Duke of Austria, German nobleman (born 1290)source
  • 1453Isabella, Duchess of Lorraine. (b.1400)source
  • 1510Juan de la Cosa, Spanish cartographer and explorer (born c. 1460)source
  • 1525Cuauhtémoc, last Tlatoani of the Aztec Empire (born c. 1495)source
  • 1525The last Aztec Emperor, Cuauhtémoc, is killed by Hernán Cortés.source
  • 1535Wolter von Plettenberg, Master of the Livonian Order (born 1450)source
  • 1536Francis III, Duke of Brittany, Duke of Brittany (died 1536)source
  • 1551Martin Bucer, German Protestant reformer (born 1491)source
  • 1572Catherine of Austria, Queen of Poland (born 1533)source
  • 1572Maharana Udai Singh, king of Mewar and the founder of the city of Udaipur, (born 1522)source
  • 1616In the aftermath of the 1613–1614 anti-Jewish pogrom called the Fettmilch uprising in Frankfurt, Germany, mob leader Vincenz Fettmilch is beheaded, but the Jews, who had been expelled from the city on August 23, 1614, following the plundering of the Judengasse, can return only as a result of direct intervention by Holy Roman Emperor Matthias. After long negotiations, the Jews are left without any compensation for their plundered belongings.source
  • 1631Regina Basilier, merchant and moneylender.source
  • 1644Guru Har Gobind, the Sixth Sikh Guru (born 1595)source
  • 1648Christian IV, King of Denmark and Norway (born 1577)source
  • 1648King Christian IV dies in his bedchamber at Rosenborg Castle where he has been moved from Frederiksborg Castle upon his own order.source
  • 1648Christian IV, king of Denmark and Norway since 1588 (born 1577).source
  • 1652Arcangela Tarabotti, Venetian nun and feminist (born 1604)source
  • 1713Samuel Whiting Jr., American clergyman 1633–1713 (born 1633)source
  • 1722William Kerr, 2nd Marquess of Lothian, army officer (born 1661)source
  • 1732André Charles Boulle, French cabinet-maker (born 1642)source
  • 1733John Morgan, poet, 45source
  • 1771Johann Michael Lavien, planter (born c. 1717)source
  • 1781Richard Stockton, signatory of the Declaration of Independence (born 1730)source
  • 1788Thomas Cushing, American Continental Congressman (born 1725)source
  • 1799French Revolutionary Wars: Action of 28 February 1799 – British Royal Navy frigate HMS Sybille defeats the French frigate Forte off the mouth of the Hooghly River in the Bay of Bengal, but both captains are killed.source
  • 1916Henry James, American writer (born 1843)source
  • 1955Isak Penttala, politician (born 1883)source
  • 2020Syrian Civil War: NATO expresses solidarity with Turkey after 34 Turkish soldiers were killed in an airstrike by pro-Syrian government forces.source
  • 2021Milan Bandić, 65, Croatian politician, mayor of Zagreb (2000–2002, since 2005), heart attack.source