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February 22 Historical Events

The following events took place on February 22. The list is arranged in chronological order.

Found 51 events. Showing 1 - 30.

  • 705
    Empress Wu Zetian abdicates the throne, restoring the Tang dynasty.
  • 1316
    Battle of Picotin between Ferdinand of Majorca and the forces of Matilda of Hainaut
  • 1371
    Robert II becomes King of Scotland, beginning the Stuart dynasty.
  • 1495
    King Charles VIII of France enters Naples to claim the city’s throne.
  • 1632
    Galileo’s Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems is published.
  • 1651
    St. Peter’s Flood: A storm surge floods the Frisian coast, drowning 15,000 people.
  • 1744
    War of the Austrian Succession: The Battle of Toulon begins.
  • 1797
    The Last Invasion of Britain begins near Fishguard, Wales.
  • 1819
    By the Adams–Onís Treaty, Spain sells Florida to the United States for five million U.S. dollars.
  • 1821
    Greek War of Independence: Alexander Ypsilantis crosses the Prut river at Sculeni into the Danubian Principalities.
  • 1847
    Mexican–American War: The Battle of Buena Vista – 5,000 American troops defeat 15,000 Mexicans.
  • 1848
    The French Revolution of 1848, which would lead to the establishment of the French Second Republic, begins.
  • 1853
    Washington University in St. Louis is founded as Eliot Seminary in St. Louis, Missouri.
  • 1855
    The Pennsylvania State University is founded in State College, Pennsylvania (as the Farmers’ High School of Pennsylvania)
  • 1856
    The United States Republican Party opens its first national meeting in Pittsburgh.
  • 1862
    Jefferson Davis is officially inaugurated for a six-year term as the President of the Confederate States of America in Richmond, Virginia. He was previously inaugurated as a provisional president on February 18, 1861.
  • 1872
    The Prohibition Party holds its first national convention in Columbus, Ohio, nominating James Black as its presidential nominee.
  • 1879
    In Utica, New York, Frank Woolworth opens the first of many of 5 and dime Woolworth stores.
  • 1889
    United States President Grover Cleveland signs a bill admitting North Dakota, South Dakota, Montana and Washington as U.S. states.
  • 1899
    Filipino forces led by General Antonio Luna launch counterattacks for the first time against the American forces during the Philippine–American War. The Filipinos fail to regain Manila from the Americans.
  • 1904
    The United Kingdom sells a meteorological station on the South Orkney Islands to Argentina, the islands are subsequently claimed by the United Kingdom in 1908.
  • 1909
    The sixteen battleships of the Great White Fleet, led by USS Connecticut, return to the United States after a voyage around the world.
  • 1915
    World War I: Germany institutes unrestricted submarine warfare.
  • 1921
    After Russian forces under Baron Roman von Ungern-Sternberg drive the Chinese out, the Bogd Khan is reinstalled as the emperor of Mongolia.
  • 1924
    U.S. President Calvin Coolidge becomes the first President to deliver a radio broadcast from the White House.
  • 1942
    World War II: President Franklin D. Roosevelt orders General Douglas MacArthur out of the Philippines as the Japanese victory becomes inevitable.
  • 1943
    World War II: Members of the White Rose resistance, Sophie Scholl, Hans Scholl, and Christoph Probst are executed in Nazi Germany.
  • 1944
    World War II: American aircraft mistakenly bomb the Dutch towns of Nijmegen, Arnhem, Enschede and Deventer, resulting in 800 dead in Nijmegen alone.
  • 1944
    World War II: The Soviet Red Army recaptures Krivoi Rog.
  • 1948
    Communist revolution in Czechoslovakia.

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