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The following events took place on February 3. The list is arranged in chronological order.

Found 54 events. Showing 1 - 30.

• 1112

  Ramon Berenguer III, Count of Barcelona and Douce I, Countess of Provence marry, uniting the fortunes of those two states.
• 1377

  More than 2,000 people of the Italian city of Cesena are killed by the Condottieri (papal armed forces) in the “Cesena Bloodbath”.
• 1451

  Sultan Mehmed II inherits the throne of the Ottoman Empire.
• 1488

  Bartolomeu Dias of Portugal lands in Mossel Bay after rounding the Cape of Good Hope, becoming the first known European to travel so far south.
• 1509

  The Portuguese navy defeats a joint fleet of the Ottoman Empire, the Republic of Venice, the Sultan of Gujarat, the Mamlûk Burji Sultanate of Egypt, the Zamorin of Calicut, and the Republic of Ragusa at the Battle of Diu in Diu, India.
• 1534

  Irish rebel Silken Thomas is executed by the order of Henry VIII in London, England.
• 1637

  Tulip mania collapses in the United Provinces (now the Netherlands) as sellers could no longer find buyers for their bulb contracts.
• 1690

  The colony of Massachusetts issues the first paper money in the Americas.
• 1706

  During the Battle of Fraustadt Swedish forces defeat a superior Saxon-Polish-Russian force by deploying a double envelopment.
• 1781

  American Revolutionary War: British forces seize the Dutch-owned Caribbean island Sint Eustatius.
• 1783

  American Revolutionary War: Spain recognizes United States independence.
• 1787

  Militia led by General Benjamin Lincoln crush the remnants of Shays’ Rebellion in Petersham, Massachusetts.
• 1807

  A British military force, under Brigadier-General Sir Samuel Auchmuty captures the Spanish Empire city of Montevideo, now the capital of Uruguay.
• 1809

  The Territory of Illinois is created by the 10th United States Congress.
• 1813

  José de San Martín defeats a Spanish royalist army at the Battle of San Lorenzo, part of the Argentine War of Independence.
• 1825

  Vendsyssel-Thy, once part of the Jutland peninsula that formed westernmost Denmark, becomes an island after a flood drowns its 1 km wide isthmus.
• 1830

  The London Protocol of 1830 establishes the full independence and sovereignty of Greece from the Ottoman Empire as the final result of the Greek War of Independence.
• 1834

  Wake Forest University is established.
• 1852

  Justo José de Urquiza defeats Juan Manuel de Rosas at the Battle of Caseros.
• 1870

  The Fifteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution is ratified, guaranteeing voting rights to citizens regardless of race.
• 1897

  The Greco-Turkish War breaks out.
• 1900

  Governor of Kentucky William Goebel dies of wound sustained in an assassination attempt three days earlier in Frankfort, Kentucky.
• 1908

  The Panathinaikos athletic club is created
• 1913

  The Sixteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution is ratified, authorizing the Federal government to impose and collect an income tax.
• 1916

  Parliament buildings in Ottawa, Canada burn down.
• 1917

  World War I: The United States breaks off diplomatic relations with Germany a day after the latter announced a new policy of unrestricted submarine warfare.
• 1918

  The Twin Peaks Tunnel in San Francisco, California begins service as the longest streetcar tunnel in the world at 11,920 feet (3,633 meters) long.
• 1930

  Communist Party of Vietnam is founded at a “Unification Conference” held in Kowloon, British Hong Kong.
• 1931

  The Hawke’s Bay earthquake, New Zealand’s worst natural disaster, kills 258.
• 1943

  The SS Dorchester is sunk by a German U-boat. Only 230 of 902 men aboard survived. The Chapel of the Four Chaplains, dedicated by President Harry Truman, is one of many memorials established to commemorate the Four Chaplains story.

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