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The following events took place on February 13. The list is arranged in chronological order.

Found 49 events. Showing 1 - 30.

• 1322

  The central tower of Ely Cathedral falls on the night of 12th–13th.
• 1462

  The Treaty of Westminster is finalised between Edward IV of England and the Scottish Lord of the Isles.
• 1503

  Challenge of Barletta – tournament between 13 Italian and 13 French knights near Barletta.
• 1542

  Catherine Howard, the fifth wife of Henry VIII of England, is executed for adultery.
• 1572

  Elizabeth I of England issues a proclamation which revokes all commissions on account of the frauds which they had fostered.
• 1575

  Henry III of France is crowned at Reims and marries Louise de Lorraine-Vaudémont on the same day.
• 1633

  Galileo Galilei arrives in Rome for his trial before the Inquisition.
• 1660

  With the death of Swedish King Charles X Gustav, the Swedish government begins to seek peace with Sweden’s enemies in the Second Northern War – something that Charles had refused. As his son and successor on the throne, Charles XI, is only four years old, a regency rules Sweden until 1672.
• 1689

  William and Mary are proclaimed co-rulers of England.
• 1692

  Massacre of Glencoe: About 78 Macdonalds at Glen Coe, Scotland are killed early in the morning for not promptly pledging allegiance to the new king, William of Orange.
• 1739

  Battle of Karnal: The army of Iranian ruler Nader Shah defeats the forces of the Mughal emperor of India, Muhammad Shah.
• 1849

  The delegation headed by Metropolitan bishop Andrei Șaguna hands out to the Emperor Franz Joseph I of Austria the General Petition of Romanian leaders in Transylvania, Banat and Bukovina, which demands that the Romanian nation be recognized.
• 1861

  In Gaeta the capitulation of the fortress decreeing the end of the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies is signed.
• 1867

  Work begins on the covering of the Senne, burying Brussels’s primary river and creating the modern central boulevards.
• 1880

  Thomas Edison observes the Edison effect.
• 1881

  The feminist newspaper La Citoyenne is first published in Paris by the activist Hubertine Auclert.
• 1913

  The 13th Dalai Lama proclaims Tibetan independence following a period of domination by Manchu Qing dynasty and initiated a period of almost four decades of independence.
• 1914

  Copyright: In New York City the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers is established to protect the copyrighted musical compositions of its members.
• 1920

  The Negro National League is formed.
• 1931

  New Delhi becomes the capital of British Raj.
• 1934

  The Soviet steamship SS Chelyuskin sinks in the Arctic Ocean.
• 1935

  A jury in Flemington, New Jersey finds Bruno Hauptmann guilty of the 1932 kidnapping and murder of the Lindbergh baby, the son of Charles Lindbergh.
• 1945

  World War II: The siege of Budapest concludes with the unconditional surrender of German and Hungarian forces to the Red Army.
• 1945

  World War II: Royal Air Force bombers are dispatched to Dresden, Germany to attack the city with a massive aerial bombardment.
• 1951

  Korean War: Battle of Chipyong-ni, which represented the “high-water mark” of the Chinese incursion into South Korea, commences.
• 1954

  Frank Selvy becomes the only NCAA Division I basketball player ever to score 100 points in a single game.
• 1955

  Israel obtains four of the seven Dead Sea Scrolls.
• 1960

  With the success of a nuclear test codenamed “Gerboise Bleue”, France becomes the fourth country to possess nuclear weapons.
• 1960

  Black college students stage the first of the Nashville sit-ins at three lunch counters in Nashville, Tennessee.
• 1961

  An allegedly 500,000-year-old rock is discovered near Olancha, California, US, that appears to anachronistically encase a spark plug.

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