Historical Events in February, Month of February Events
Here is a list of some historical events in February. You can learn What major event happened in February?
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
| February 1, 1865 | President Abraham Lincoln signs the Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution. |
| February 2, 1868 | Pro-Imperial forces capture Osaka Castle from the Tokugawa shogunate and burn it to the ground. |
| February 1, 1895 | Fountains Valley, Pretoria, the oldest nature reserve in Africa, is proclaimed by President Paul Kruger. |
| February 15, 1965 | A new red-and-white maple leaf design is adopted as the flag of Canada, replacing the old Canadian Red Ensign banner. |
| February 23, 1903 | Cuba leases Guantánamo Bay to the United States "in perpetuity". |
| February 13, 2004 | The Harvard |
| February 10, 1967 | The 25th Amendment to the United States Constitution is ratified. |
| February 22, 1495 | King Charles VIII of France enters Naples to claim the city's throne. |
| February 20, 1905 | The U.S. Supreme Court upholds the constitutionality of Massachusetts's mandatory smallpox vaccination program in Jacobson v. Massachusetts. |
| February 27, 1898 | King George I of Greece survives an assassination attempt. |
| February 21, 1934 | Augusto Sandino is executed. |
| February 29, 2016 | At least 40 people are killed and 58 others wounded following a suicide bombing by ISIL at a Shi'ite funeral in the city of Miqdadiyah, Diyala. |
| February 15, 1690 | Constantin Cantemir, Prince of Moldavia, and the Holy Roman Empire sign a secret treaty in Sibiu, stipulating that Moldavia would support the actions led by the House of Habsburg against the Ottoman Empire. |
| February 2, 1922 | Ulysses by James Joyce is published. |
| February 5, 1918 | Stephen W. Thompson shoots down a German airplane; this is the first aerial victory by the U.S. military. |
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