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February 7 in history

191 sourced entries recorded on February 7, from 199 CE to 2025 CE. Every line is quoted from the revision it came from.

Events

  • 457Leo I, a Thraco-Roman (or Dacian) high-ranking officer, becomes the new emperor of the Eastern Roman Empire, reigning for nearly 20 years. He is first to accept the Byzantine crown from the hands of the patriarch of Constantinople.source
  • 590Pope Pelagius II falls victim to the plague that devastated Rome. He is succeeded by Gregory I, age 50, as the 64th pope, and the first from a monastic background.source
  • 987Bardas Phokas (the Younger) and Bardas Skleros, two members of the military elite, begin a wide-scale rebellion against Emperor Basil II. They overrun Anatolia, and Phokas declares himself Emperor. Basil applies for military assistance from Prince Vladimir the Great, ruler of Kievan Rus', who agrees to help him and sends a Varangian army (6,000 men).source
  • 1301The 16-year-old Prince Edward of Caernarfon, son and heir of King Edward I ("Edward Longshanks"), becomes the first English Prince of Wales and is also granted the royal lands in Wales.source
  • 1312In Scotland, Dungal MacDouall is forced to surrender Dumfries Castle to the forces of King Robert the Bruce. Despite having helped in the murder of King Robert's brothers in 1308, Dungal is allowed to go into exile rather than being put to death.source
  • 1313(12th waxing of Tabaung, 674 ME) In what is now the Mandalay Region of central Myanmar in Asia, Burmese King Thihathu proclaims the Pinya Kingdom, to separate the area from the Myinsaing Kingdom. Thihathu appoints his son, Kyawswa I of Pinya, to replace him as the Viceroy of Pinle in Myinsaing.source
  • 1313Robert the Bruce captures Dumfriessource
  • 1324Siege of Villa di Chiesa: Aragonese forces led by Prince Alfonso ("the Kind") capture the city of Villa di Chiesa due to attrition. The Pisan garrison surrenders after an 8-month siege. It represents the first act of the Aragonese conquest of Sardinia, for the creation of the Kingdom of Sardinia.source
  • 1375In what is Myanmar, King Swa Saw Ke of Ava declares that occupiers from the neighboring Shan State of Möng Mao have been driven out of the kingdom, and a monument is inscribed at the capital, Inwa.source
  • 1384Nicholas Brembre, Lord Mayor of London after defeating John Northampton's bid for re-election, arranges to have Northampton arrested on charges of sedition.source
  • 1403King Henry IV of England marries as his second wife Joan of Navarre, the daughter of King Charles II of Navarre and widow of Duke John IV of Brittany, at Winchester Cathedral.source
  • 1418The Lam Sơn uprising in Chinese-occupied Vietnam begins during the Tết holiday as a group of 18 men led by Lê Lợi begin a nine year rebellion against Ming dynasty China.source
  • 1441Luchuan–Pingmian campaigns: In Ming dynasty China, the Vice Minister of Justice, He Wenyuan, petitions the Imperial Court not to make a second punitive campaign against the kingdom of Möng Mao and its ruler, Si Renfa, arguing that the nation's resources should not be wasted on worthless land. The Minister of War, Wang Ji, joins with General Mu Ang in arguing that Si Renfa should be stopped before he conquers more territory. The Emperor authorizes the second campaign.source
  • 1450John de la Pole, 2nd Duke of Suffolk, marries Lady Margaret Beaufort.source
  • 1464After leading the Ottoman Empire's conquest of his native Bosnia, General Isa-beg Isaković becomes the first Ottoman Governor of Bosnia. The province will remain under Turkish control for more than 400 years until 1878.source
  • 1474The Hungarian town of Varad is attacked by an Ottoman Empire army of 7,000 cavalry, commanded by General Mihaloğlu Ali Bey, and its inhabitants are taken prisoner.source
  • 1497At the public square in Florence, on Shrove Tuesday, followers of the charismatic Dominican friar and evangelist Girolamo Savonarola carry out the first "bonfire of the vanities" and burn thousands of artworks, books, clothing, mirrors, music instruments, playing cards and other objects deemed by them to be a temptation to sin.source
  • 1505During a visit to Windsor Castle as guests of King Henry VII of England, Philip the Handsome, Duke of Burgundy, plays a game of tennis against Thomas Grey, 2nd Marquess of Dorset in the first recorded use of tennis rackets. A year later, a chronicler notes that on the 7th of February, "the kynge of Castelle played w the Rackete and gave the marques xv".source
  • 1522The Pact of Brussels is signed between Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor and his younger brother Archduke Ferdinand, guaranteeing Charles's support of Ferdinand to become the King of the Romans.source
  • 1546John Bathe becomes Principal Solicitor for Ireland.source
  • 1550After a 10-week conclave in Rome to elect a new Pope, Giovanni Maria Ciocchi del Monte, Bishop of Palestrina, is selected on the 61st ballot after Reginald Pole of England falls two votes short of winning. Ciocchi del Monte takes the name Pope Julius III and is crowned the next day, succeeding the late Pope Paul III.source
  • 1564February 7 (11th waning of Tabodwe 925 ME) – Burmese–Siamese War: Invaders from Burma overcome the seaside defenses of the Siamese capital at Ayutthava, capturing the batteries of cannons and a set of ships sent by Portugal to help defend the kingdom.source
  • 1568Members of a Spanish expedition, commanded by Álvaro de Mendaña de Neira, become the first Europeans to see the Solomon Islands, landing at Santa Isabel Island.source
  • 1583In the Netherlands, the Siege of Eindhoven by the Spanish Army begins. The walled city will fall in April.source
  • 1591Pope Gregory XIV, who had succeeded Pope Urban VII in December, appoints Cardinal Marco Antonio Colonna and six other cardinals to a commission to revise the Sixtine Vulgate Latin translation of the Bible, published in 1590 under the editorship of Pope Sixtus V, to which the College of Cardinals has taken exception. The revision of the revision, dubbed the Sixto-Clementine Vulgate, will be completed in 1592 and be the official version used by the Catholic Church until 1979.source
  • 1592George Gordon, 1st Marquess of Huntly, sets fire to Donibristle Castle in Scotland and murders James Stewart, 2nd Earl of Moray.source
  • 1592George Gordon, 1st Marquess of Huntly, sets fire to Donibristle Castle and murders James Stewart, 2nd Earl of Moray.source
  • 1608A peace conference opens at the Binnenhof at The Hague, in the Netherlands, to end a war between the Dutch Republic and the Spanish Netherlands (now Belgium).source
  • 1623France, Savoy and Venice sign the Treaty of Paris, agreeing to cooperate in removing Spanish forces from the strategic Alpine pass of Valtelline.source
  • 1624(January 28, 1623/4 old style) England first colonizes Saint Kitts and Nevis.source
  • 1649The English Parliament rejects a proposal to continue the English monarchy after Oliver Cromwell makes clear that he does not wish to be crowned as King of England.source
  • 1683The opera Giustino by Giovanni Legrenzi and about the life of the Byzantine Emperor Justin, premieres in Venice.source
  • 1684Morocco retakes control of the city of Tangier from England, which had controlled the North African port since 1661. During the five months prior to evacuation of the English from the city, the Governor, Lord Dartmouth had ordered the destruction of the wall around the city, its fortifications and port facilities that had been built by the English during the occupation.source
  • 1687The Arjeplog blasphemy trial begins for Erik Eskilsson and Amund Thorsson, two practitioners of the Sami religion who had resisted Sweden's efforts at their conversion to Christianity. Eskilsson and Thorsson are acquitted of the charges after agreeing to convert to Christianity.source
  • 1687The Arjeplog blasphemy trial begins against Erik Eskilsson and Amund Thorsson for maintaining their practice of Sami shamanism during the Christianization of the Sami. Both were acquitted of all charges after agreeing to convert to Christianity.source
  • 1688Six French Jesuit scientists, Joachim Bouvet, Jean-François Gerbillon, Louis-Daniel Lecomte, Guy Tachard, Claude de Visdelou and the leader, Jean de Fontaney, arrive in Beijing and are welcomed by the Emperor of China, Kangxi.source
  • 1705Twelfth siege of Gibraltar: Marshal René de Froulay de Tessé of the French Army supplements the Spanish forces of the Marquis of Villadarias and seizes control of a strategic fortress, the Round Tower, but the forces retreat after a counterattack kills 200 of their number in the retaking of the Tower.source
  • 1714The Siege of Tönning (a fortress of the Swedish Empire and now located in Germany in the state of Schleswig-Holstein) ends after almost a year, as Danish forces force the surrender of the remaining 1,600 defenders. The fortress is then leveled by the Danes.source
  • 1748The San Gabriel mission project begins with the founding of the first Roman Catholic missions further northward in the Viceroyalty of New Spain, in what is now central Texas. On orders of the Viceroy, Juan Francisco de Güemes, Friar Mariano Marti establish the San Francisco Xavier mission at a location on the San Gabriel River in what is now Milam County. The mission, located northeast of the future site of Austin, Texas, is attacked by 60 Apache Indians on May 2, and San Xavier is abandoned after a few years.source
  • 1774The volunteer fire company of Trenton, New Jersey, predecessor to the paid Trenton Fire Department created in 1892, is founded. In 1905, at 131 years, it claims to be the oldest continuously serving department in the U.S.source
  • 1783The Great Siege of Gibraltar is abandoned.source
  • 1788Sydney is named and founded, in the British colony of New South Wales.source
  • 1795The Eleventh Amendment to the United States Constitution is passed.source
  • 1799Marc Isambard Brunel leaves the United States.source
  • 1799The Jiaqing Emperor of China comes into his full powers on the death of his father, the Qianlong Emperor. He prosecutes corrupt court official Heshen and issues a decree prohibiting the import of opium to China.source
  • 1800A public plebiscite in France confirms Napoleon as First Consul, by a substantial majority.source
  • 1805King Anouvong becomes ruler of Vientiane on the death of his brother Inthavong.source
  • 1807Napoleon leads the forces of the French Empire in an invasion of the Russian Empire, and begins fighting at the Battle of Eylau against Russian and Prussian forces.source
  • 1812The last New Madrid earthquake strikes New Madrid, Missouri, with an estimated moment magnitude of over 8.source
  • 1812The last of four major New Madrid earthquakes strike New Madrid, Missouri, with an estimated moment magnitude of over 8.source
  • 1813Raid on Elizabethtown.source
  • 1817Baltimore becomes the first U.S. city with public street gas lighting.source
  • 1818Hongi Hika leads a second Ngā Puhi campaign against Ngāti Porou. They ravage many villages in the Bay of Plenty before passing East Cape and attacking Ngāti Porou in Hicks Bay.source
  • 1831The Belgian Constitution of 1831 is approved by the National Congress.source
  • 1832The West Australian Legislative Council and Executive Council meet for the first timesource
  • 1837Samuel Marsden arrives in New Zealand on his last visit.source
  • 1842Battle of Debre Tabor: Ras Ali Alula, Regent of the Emperor of Ethiopia, defeats warlord Wube Haile Maryam of Semien.source
  • 1845A drunken visitor smashes the Portland Vase in the British Museum, requiring months of repair work.source
  • 1845In the British Museum, a drunken visitor smashes the Portland Vase which takes months to repair.source
  • 1855The Simoda Agreement was signed between Russian Empire and Japan, which consolidated Russian control over the Kuril Islands.source
  • 1856The Nawab of Oudh, Wajid Ali Shah, is exiled to Metiabruz and the state is annexed by the British East India Company.source
  • 1861François Robyn (Br Hugo in religion) sentenced to death at the Court of assizes in Mons for arson at Scourmont Priory the previous October.source
  • 1863HMS Orpheus sinks while attempting to enter Manukau Harbour in New Zealand, with the loss of 189 lives.source
  • 1863The Sydney-based Royal Navy corvette HMS Orpheus sinks off the coast of New Zealand claiming 189 lives.source
  • 1863HMS Orpheus is wrecked at the entrance to Manukau Harbour with the loss of 189 lives.source
  • 1863HMS Orpheus sinks attempting to enter Manukau Harbour in New Zealand with the loss of 189 lives.source
  • 1866Battle of Abtao: A Spanish naval squadron fights a combined Peruvian-Chilean fleet, at the island of Abtao, in the Chiloé Archipelago of southern Chile.source
  • 1867West Virginia University is established in Morgantown.source
  • 1886February 6–9 – Seattle riot of 1886: Anti-Chinese sentiments result in riots in Seattle, Washington.source
  • 1899Following conviction at court-martial for "conduct unbecoming an officer and a gentleman" arising from his accusations against Major General Nelson A. Miles, U.S. Commissioner General Charles P. Eagan is suspended from duty for six years by President McKinley.source
  • 1899Keiō and Waseda become Japan's first private universities.source
  • 1904The Great Baltimore Fire in Baltimore, Maryland, destroys over 1,500 buildings in 31 hours.source
  • 1905February 4–8: Argentine Revolution of 1905source
  • 1906HMS Dreadnought is launched, sparking a naval race between Britain and Germany.source
  • 1916The Roman Catholic archdiocese of Cardiff is established.source
  • 1924Former president and rebel leader Adolfo de la Huerta escapes by boat to Mérida, Yucatán, after federal troops recapture Veracruz.source
  • 1927An attempted military coup in Lisbon, Portugal, is successfully put down.source
  • 1929The Monetary Act lays down the gold standard for the Romanian leu.source
  • 1933February 6–7 – Officers on the USS Ramapo record a 34-meter high sea wave in the Pacific Ocean.source
  • 19397 February – 17 March – The London Conference at St. James's Palace is held in an attempt to resolve the future of the British Mandate over Palestine. The conference ends without making any progress.source
  • 1940RKO release Walt Disney's second full-length animated film, Pinocchio.source
  • 1940February 2–11 – Scheduled dates for the 1940 Winter Olympics in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany, cancelled in November 1939 due to WWII (originally allocated to Sapporo, Japan).source
  • 1940Walt Disney animated feature film Pinocchio premiere.source
  • 1943WWII: North Atlantic convoy SC 118 is attacked by U-boats, who sink 8 ships.source
  • 1945February 4–11 – WWII: President Franklin D. Roosevelt, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom Winston Churchill and Soviet leader Joseph Stalin hold the Yalta Conference.source
  • 1952New York City announces its first crosswalk devices to be installed.source
  • 1962The United States embargo against Cuba comes into effect, prohibiting all U.S.-related Cuban imports and exports.source
  • 1962The Kennedy Government bans all U.S.-related imports from Cuba and exports to Cuba.source
  • 1962Luisenthal Mine Disaster: A coal mine explosion in Saarland, West Germany, kills 299.source
  • 1964January 29 – February 9 – The 1964 Winter Olympics are held in Innsbruck, Austria.source
  • 1966Lyndon B. Johnson of the United States and Nguyễn Cao Kỳ of South Vietnam convene with other officials in a summit in Honolulu, Hawaii to discuss the course of the Vietnam War.source
  • 1966The Great Fire of Iloilo, Philippines, breaks out in a lumber yard and burns for almost half a day, destroying nearly three-quarters of the City Proper area and causing 50 million pesos in total property damage.source
  • 1967Serious bushfires in southern Tasmania claim 62 lives and destroy 2,642.7 square kilometres (653,025.4 acres) of land.source
  • 1968February 6–18 – The 1968 Winter Olympics are held in Grenoble, France.source
  • 1971Władysław Gomułka is expelled from the Central Council of the Polish Communist Party.source
  • 1972February 3–13 – The 1972 Winter Olympics are held in Sapporo, Japan.source
  • 1976Toronto Maple Leafs star Darryl Sittler scores ten points in one game.source
  • 1977The Soviet Union launches Soyuz 24 (Viktor Gorbatko, Yury Glazkov) to dock with the Salyut 5 space station.source
  • 1978February 5–7 – The Northeastern United States blizzard of 1978 hits the New England region and the New York metropolitan area, killing about 100, and causing over US$520 million in damage.source
  • 1979Iranian Revolution: Supporters of Ayatollah Khomeini take over the Iranian law enforcement, courts, and government administration; the final session of the Iranian National Consultative Assembly is held.source
  • 1979Pluto moves inside Neptune's orbit for the first time since either was known to science.source
  • 1979Nazi criminal Josef Mengele suffers a stroke and drowns while swimming in Bertioga. His remains are found six years later.source
  • 1979Nazi criminal Josef Mengele suffers a fatal stroke and drowns while swimming in Bertioga, Brazil. His remains are found in 1985.source
  • 1982Iraqi club Al-Shorta win the 1982 Arab Club Champions Cup with a 4–2 aggregate win over Al-Nejmeh in the final.source
  • 1983The airfield at Sydenham, Belfast, reopens to commercial flights as Belfast Harbour Airport.source
  • 1984Astronauts Bruce McCandless II and Robert L. Stewart make the first untethered space walk.source
  • 1986The snap presidential election in the Philippines earlier announced by President Ferdinand Marcos is held amidst controversy, that paves the way for a chain of protests, culminating in the People Power Revolution.source
  • 1986Following Lindy Chamberlain's identification of a baby's jacket found near Uluru as being similar to the one worn by her baby Azaria, her case takes a new turn.source
  • 1986Anti-Duvalier protest movement: President Jean-Claude Duvalier ("Baby Doc") flees Haiti, ending 28 years of family rule.source
  • 1989Last public performance by singer Misora Hibari held in Kitakyushu.source
  • 19911991 Haitian coup d'état: Haiti's first democratically elected president, Jean-Bertrand Aristide, is sworn in. He is ousted on September 30 and later reinstated in 1994. In response to the coup and in an effort to encourage the coup leaders to restore democracy, the U.S. expands trade sanctions on Haiti to include all goods except food and medicine on October 29.source
  • 1991André-Joseph Léonard appointed Bishop of Namur by Pope John Paul IIsource
  • 1992The Maastricht Treaty is signed, founding the European Union.source
  • 1993the delimitation treaty between Senegal and Cape Verde was signedsource
  • 1994The Planetarium Negara (National Planetarium) in Kuala Lumpur officially opened.source
  • 1998February 7–22 – The 1998 Winter Olympics are held in Nagano, Japan.source
  • 1999Abdullah II inherits the throne of Jordan, following the death of his father, King Hussein.source
  • 2005A presidential decree on redenomination of the Azerbaijani manat is issued, equating 1 new manat to 5000 old manats.source
  • 2008Prairie International and the Central African Mining and Exploration Company (CAMEC) announced that operations at Mukondo had restarted.source
  • 2009Bushfires in Victoria leave 173 dead in the worst natural disaster in Australia's history.source
  • 2013The Azerbaijan National Aerospace Agency launched its first satellite AzerSat 1 into orbit on 7 February 2013 from Guiana Space Centre in French Guiana at orbital positions 46° East.source
  • 2014A man attempts to hijack a Pegasus Airlines flight from Kharkiv, and demands to be flown to Sochi; the pilots turned off the inflight monitors and landed in Istanbul, Turkey, where the passenger was arrested.source
  • 2014February 7–23 – The XXII Olympic Winter Games are held in Sochi, Russia. Slopestyle events are introduced for the first time.source
  • 2015North Korea test fires a new "ultra-precision" intelligent anti-ship missile which is to be deployed across its navy.source
  • 2016North Korea launches a reconnaissance satellite named Kwangmyŏngsŏng-4 into space, it is condemned internationally as a long-range ballistic missile test.source
  • 2019President Félix Tshisekedi (Democratic Republic of the Congo) and president Denis Sassou Nguesso (Republic of the Congo) meetsource
  • 20192019 Haitian protests: Anti-government protests demanding the resignation of Haitian President Jovenel Moïse begin in several cities across the country.source
  • 2023February 1 – February 11: 2022 FIFA Club World Cup in Morocco.source
  • 2024The barge MV Gulfstream capsizes off the coast of Tobago, producing an oil spill that affects 15 kilometers of the island's coastline and prompting the declaration of a national emergency.source

Births

  • 574Shōtoku, prince and regent of Japan (died 622)source
  • 1102Matilda, Holy Roman Empress (died 1167)source
  • 1449Adriana of Nassau-Siegen, consort of Count Philip I of Hanau-Münzenberg (died 1477)source
  • 1478Thomas More, English statesman and humanist (died 1535)source
  • 1487Queen Dangyeong, Korean royal consort (died 1557)source
  • 1518Johann Funck, German theologian (died 1566)source
  • 1559Catherine de Bourbon, Princess of Navarre and Duchess consort of Lorraine (died 1604)source
  • 1612Thomas Killigrew, English dramatist and theatre manager (died 1683)source
  • 1622Vittoria della Rovere, Italian noble (died 1694)source
  • 1644Nils Bielke, member of the High Council of Sweden, military and politician (died 1716)source
  • 1708Grand Duchess Anna Petrovna of Russia, Elder daughter of Emperor Peter I, the Great of Russia and his wife Empress Catherine I. (died 1728)source
  • 1722Azar Bigdeli, Iranian anthologist and poet (died 1781)source
  • 1726Margaret Fownes-Luttrell, British painter (died 1766)source
  • 1741Henry Fuseli, Swiss painter and writer (died 1825)source
  • 1812Charles Dickens, English novelist (died 1870)source
  • 1867Laura Elizabeth Wilder, née Ingalls, American children's author (died 1957)source
  • 1870Alfred Adler, Austrian psychologist (died 1937)source
  • 1885Hugo Sperrle, German field marshal (died 1953)source
  • 1906Puyi, Last Emperor of China (died 1967)source
  • 1909Hélder Câmara, Catholic archbishop (died 1999)source
  • 1927Raimund Hagelberg, economist and professor (died 2012)source
  • 1988Matthew Stafford, American football playersource
  • 2025Princess Ines, Duchess of Västerbotten.source

Deaths

  • 199Gao Shun, Chinese general and advisorsource
  • 237Chen Qun, Chinese official and politiciansource
  • 318Min of Jin, Chinese emperor (born 300)source
  • 590Pope Pelagius II (born 520)source
  • 999Boleslaus II ("the Pious"), duke of Bohemia (born c.932)source
  • 1045Emperor Go-Suzaku of Japan (born 1009)source
  • 1065Siegfried I, count of Sponheimsource
  • 1072Diarmait mac Máel na mBó, Irish king of Leinstersource
  • 1074Battle of Montesarchio: Prince Pandulf IV, co-ruler of Benevento, is killed while fighting the Normans in southern Italy.source
  • 1074Pandulf IV of Benevento, Lombard princesource
  • 1127Ava (von Göttweig), German poet (born 1060)source
  • 1165Stephen of Armenia, Armenian nobleman (born 1111)source
  • 1259Thomas, Count of Flanderssource
  • 1317Robert de Clermont, French nobleman and prince (born 1256)source
  • 1333Nikko, Japanese priest, founder of Nichiren Shoshu Buddhism (born 1246)source
  • 1520Alfonsina de' Medici, née Orsini, Regent of Florence (born 1472)source
  • 1538Olav Engelbrektsson, Archbishop of Norway (born c. 1480).source
  • 1560Bartolommeo Bandinelli, Florentine sculptor (born 1493)source
  • 1573Hedwig Jagiellon, Electress of Brandenburg (born 1513)source
  • 1592James Stewart, 2nd Earl of Moray (born c.1565)source
  • 1624Cort Aslakssøn, astronomer, theologist and (born 1564)source
  • 1624Cort Aslakssøn, astronomer, theologist and philosopher (born 1564).source
  • 1661Shah Shuja, who was deprived of his claim to the throne of the Mughal Empire by his younger brother Aurangzeb, then fled to Burma, is killed by Indian troops in an attack on his residence at Arakan.source
  • 1706Didrik Muus, priest, painter, copper engraver (born 1633).source
  • 1725Johann Philipp Krieger, German Baroque composer (born 1649)source
  • 1736Stephen Gray, English dyer, astronomer, and scientist (born 1666)source
  • 1750Algernon Seymour, 7th Duke of Somerset (born 1684)source
  • 1756Guaraní War: The leader of the Guaraní rebels, Sepé Tiaraju, is killed in a skirmish with Spanish and Portuguese troops.source
  • 1799Qianlong Emperor of China (born 1711)source
  • 1804William Bingham, American Continental congressman, senator for Pennsylvania (born 1752)source
  • 1823Ann Radcliffe, English writer (born 1764)source
  • 1837Gustav IV Adolf, deposed King of Sweden (born 1778)source
  • 1864Vuk Stefanović Karadžić, Serbian linguist, major reformer of the Serbian language (born 1787)source
  • 1871Princess Leopoldina of Brazil, daughter of Pedro IIsource
  • 1873Sheridan Le Fanu, Irish writer (born 1814)source
  • 1878Pope Pius IX (born 1792)source
  • 1920Alexander Kolchak, Russian naval commander; executed (born 1874)source
  • 1999Hussein I of Jordan, 63, Jordanian monarch, King of Jordan (1952–1999), lymphoma.source
  • 2006February 7–11 people were killed when unidentified assailants attacked a village in the volatile western region of Côte d'Ivoire, 20 km from the town of Guiglo which has seen a series of deadly ethnically motivated clashes in 2005 and violent anti-UN protests in January 2006.source