February 28 Historical Events

The following events took place on February 28. The list is arranged in chronological order.

Found 58 events. Showing 1 - 30.

• 202 BC
  coronation ceremony of Liu Bang as Emperor Gaozu of Han takes place, initiating four centuries of the Han dynasty’s rule over China.
• 628
  Khosrau II is executed by Mihr Hormozd under the orders of Kavadh II.
• 870
  The Fourth Council of Constantinople closes.
• 1246
  The Siege of Jaén ends in the context of the Spanish Reconquista resulting in the Castilian takeover of the city from the Taifa of Jaen.
• 1525
  The Aztec king Cuauhtémoc is executed by Hernán Cortés’s forces.
• 1638
  The Scottish National Covenant is signed in Edinburgh.
• 1700
  Today is followed by March 1 in Sweden, thus creating the Swedish calendar.
• 1710
  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.
• 1784
  John Wesley charters the Methodist Church.
• 1811
  Cry of Asencio, beginning of the Uruguayan War of Independence
• 1827
  The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad is incorporated, becoming the first railroad in America offering commercial transportation of both people and freight.
• 1838
  Robert Nelson, leader of the Patriotes, proclaims the independence of Lower Canada (today Quebec)
• 1844
  A gun on USS Princeton explodes while the boat is on a Potomac River cruise, killing eight people, including two United States Cabinet members.
• 1847
  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.
• 1849
  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.

• 1867
  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.
• 1870
  The Bulgarian Exarchate is established by decree of Sultan Abd-ul-Aziz of the Ottoman Empire.
• 1874
  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.
• 1883
  The first vaudeville theater opens in Boston
• 1885
  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.)
• 1893
  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.
• 1897
  Queen Ranavalona III, the last monarch of Madagascar, is deposed by a French military force.
• 1900
  The Second Boer War: The 118-day “Siege of Ladysmith” is lifted.
• 1914
  The Autonomous Republic of Northern Epirus is proclaimed in Gjirokastër, by the Greeks living in southern Albania.
• 1922
  The United Kingdom ends its protectorate over Egypt through a Unilateral Declaration of Independence.
• 1925
  The Charlevoix-Kamouraska earthquake strikes northeastern North America.
• 1928
  C. V. Raman discovers Raman scattering.
• 1933
  Gleichschaltung: The Reichstag Fire Decree is passed in Germany a day after the Reichstag fire.
• 1935
  DuPont scientist Wallace Carothers invents nylon.
• 1939
  The erroneous word “dord” is discovered in the Webster’s New International Dictionary, Second Edition, prompting an investigation.