Historical Events
The following events took place on . The list is arranged in chronological order.
Found 58 events. Showing 1 - 30.
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- 202 BCcoronation ceremony of Liu Bang as Emperor Gaozu of Han takes place, initiating four centuries of the Han dynasty’s rule over China.
- 628Khosrau II is executed by Mihr Hormozd under the orders of Kavadh II.
- 870The Fourth Council of Constantinople closes.
- 1246The Siege of Jaén ends in the context of the Spanish Reconquista resulting in the Castilian takeover of the city from the Taifa of Jaen.
- 1525The Aztec king Cuauhtémoc is executed by Hernán Cortés’s forces.
- The Scottish National Covenant is signed in Edinburgh.
- Today is followed by March 1 in Sweden, thus creating the Swedish calendar.
- In the Battle of Helsingborg, 14,000 Danish invaders under Jørgen Rantzau are decisively defeated by an equally sized Swedish force under Magnus Stenbock. This is the last time Swedish and Danish troops meet on Swedish soil.
- John Wesley charters the Methodist Church.
- Cry of Asencio, beginning of the Uruguayan War of Independence
- The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad is incorporated, becoming the first railroad in America offering commercial transportation of both people and freight.
- Robert Nelson, leader of the Patriotes, proclaims the independence of Lower Canada (today Quebec)
- A gun on USS Princeton explodes while the boat is on a Potomac River cruise, killing eight people, including two United States Cabinet members.
- The Battle of the Sacramento River during the Mexican–American War is a decisive victory for the United States leading to the capture of Chihuahua.
- Regular 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, four months 22 days after leaving New York Harbor.
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- Seventy years of Holy See–United States relations are ended by a Congressional ban on federal funding of diplomatic envoys to the Vatican and are not restored until January 10, 1984.
- The Bulgarian Exarchate is established by decree of Sultan Abd-ul-Aziz of the Ottoman Empire.
- One of the longest cases ever heard in an English court ends when the defendant is convicted of perjury for attempting to assume the identity of the heir to the Tichborne baronetcy.
- The first vaudeville theater opens in Boston
- The American Telephone and Telegraph Company is incorporated in New York as the subsidiary of American Bell Telephone. (American Bell would later merge with its subsidiary.)
- The USS Indiana, the lead ship of her class and the first battleship in the United States Navy comparable to foreign battleships of the time, is launched.
- Queen Ranavalona III, the last monarch of Madagascar, is deposed by a French military force.
- The Second Boer War: The 118-day “Siege of Ladysmith” is lifted.
- The Autonomous Republic of Northern Epirus is proclaimed in Gjirokastër, by the Greeks living in southern Albania.
- The United Kingdom ends its protectorate over Egypt through a Unilateral Declaration of Independence.
- The Charlevoix-Kamouraska earthquake strikes northeastern North America.
- C. V. Raman discovers Raman scattering.
- Gleichschaltung: The Reichstag Fire Decree is passed in Germany a day after the Reichstag fire.
- DuPont scientist Wallace Carothers invents nylon.
- The erroneous word “dord” is discovered in the Webster’s New International Dictionary, Second Edition, prompting an investigation.
