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24/02/0303 - 1st official Roman edict for persecution of Christians issued
16/02/0374 - 9th recorded perihelion passage of Halley's Comet
27/02/0837 - 15th recorded perihelion passage of Halley's Comet
28/02/0870 - 8th Ecumenical council ends in Constantinople
02/02/1461 - 2nd battle of St Alban's-Lancastrian defeat Yorkists
24/02/1530 - 1st imperial coronation by a Pope, Charles V crowned by Clement V
10/02/1535 - 12 nude anabaptists run through Amsterdam streets
27/02/1557 - 1st Russian Embassy opens in London, Russia and US sign trade agreement
11/02/1573 - 1st European, Francis Drake sees the Pacific (from Panama)
05/02/1644 - 1st US livestock branding law passed, by Connecticut
06/02/1651 - -7] Cardinal Mazarin flees Paris
16/02/1659 - 1st known check (œ400) (on display at Westminster Abbey)
20/02/1673 - 1st recorded wine auction held (London)
03/02/1690 - 1st paper money in America issued (colony of Mass)
04/02/1697 - 3 VOC-ships anchor at Dirk-Hartogeiland, Australia
04/02/1699 - 350 rebellious Streltsi executed in Moscow
20/02/1725 - 10 sleeping Indians scalped by whites in NH for œ100/scalp bounty
26/02/1732 - 1st mass celebrated in 1st American Catholic church, Philadelphia
08/02/1735 - 1st opera in US "Flora," opens in Charleston, SC
18/02/1735 - 1st opera performed in America, "Flora," in Charleston, SC
10/02/1749 - 10th (final) volume of Fielding's "Tom Jones" is published
28/02/1749 - 1st edition of Henry Fieldings' "Tom Jones" published
16/02/1751 - 1st publication of Gray's "Elegy Written in a Country Church Yard"
25/02/1751 - 1st performing monkey exhibited in America, NYC (admission 1›)
15/02/1768 - 1st mustard manufactured in America advertised, Philadelphia
20/02/1768 - 1st American chartered fire insurance company opens (Penn)
17/02/1772 - 1st partition of Poland-Russia and Prussia, joined later by Austria
22/02/1775 - 1st US joint stock company (to make cloth) offers shares at œ10
17/02/1776 - 1st volume of Gibbon's "Decline and Fall of Roman Empire" published
22/02/1784 - 1st US ship to trade with China, "Empress of China," sails from NY
04/02/1787 - 1st Anglican bishops of NY and Pennsylvania consecrated in London
01/02/1788 - 1st US steamboat patent issued, by Georgia to Briggs and Longstreet
04/02/1789 - 1st electoral college chooses Washington and Adams as Pres and VP
25/02/1791 - 1st Bank of US chartered
12/02/1793 - 1st US fugitive slave law passed; requires return of escaped slaves
25/02/1793 - 1st cabinet meeting (At George Washington's home)
11/02/1794 - 1st session of US Senate open to the public
14/02/1794 - 1st US textile machinery patent granted, to James Davenport, Phila
07/02/1795 - 11th Amendment to US Constitution ratified, affirms power of states
13/02/1795 - 1st state university in US opens, University of North Carolina
19/02/1797 - 1/3 of papal domain ceded to France
13/02/1799 - 1st US law regulating insurance passed, by Massachusetts
15/02/1799 - 1st US printed ballots authorized, Pennsylvania
25/02/1799 - 1st federal forestry legislation authorizes purchase of timber land
02/02/1802 - 1st leopard exhibited in US, Boston (admission 25›)
25/02/1803 - 1,800 sovereign German states unite into 60 states
18/02/1804 - 1st US land-grant college, Ohio University, Athens Ohio, chartered
21/02/1804 - 1st locomotive, Richard Trevithick's, runs for 1st time, in Wales
24/02/1807 - 17 die and 15 wounded in a crush to witness execution of Holloway, Heggerty and Elizabeth Godfrey in England
01/02/1810 - 1st insurance co managed by blacks (American Insurance Co of Phila)
28/02/1810 - 1st US fire insurance joint-stock company organized, Philadelphia
07/02/1812 - 8.2 earthquake shakes New Madrid, Missouri
23/02/1813 - 1st US raw cotton-to-cloth mill founded in Waltham, Mass
27/02/1813 - 1st federal vaccination legislation enacted
13/02/1816 - -14] Teatro San Carlo in Naples destroyed by fire
05/02/1817 - 1st US gas co incorporated, Baltimore (coal gas for street lights)
17/02/1817 - 1st US city lit by gas (Baltimore)
07/02/1818 - 1st successful US educational magazine "Academician," begins (NYC)
28/02/1819 - 1st public performance of a Schubert song, "Sch„fers Klageleid"
06/02/1820 - 1st organized emigration of blacks back to Africa (NY to Sierra Leone)
27/02/1827 - 1st Mardi Gras celebration in New Orleans
28/02/1827 - 1st commercial railroad in US, Baltimore and Ohio (BandO) chartered
21/02/1828 - 1st American Indian newspaper in US, "Cherokee Phoenix," published
19/02/1831 - 1st practical US coal-burning locomotive makes 1st trial run, Penn
06/02/1832 - 1st appearance of cholera at Edinburgh, Scotland
13/02/1832 - 1st appearance of cholera at London
18/02/1834 - 1st US labor newspaper, "The Man," published, NYC
26/02/1834 - 1st US interstate crime compact (NY-NJ) ratified
24/02/1836 - 3,000 Mexicans attack 182 Texans at Alamo, lasts 13 days
08/02/1837 - 1st VP chosen by Senate, Richard Johnson (Van Buren admin)
25/02/1837 - 1st US electric printing press patented by Thomas Davenport
18/02/1841 - 1st continuous filibuster in US Senate began, lasting until March 11
15/02/1842 - 1st adhesive postage stamps in US (private delivery company), NYC
21/02/1842 - 1st known sewing machine patented in US, John Greenough, Wash DC
28/02/1844 - 12-inch gun aboard USS Princeton explodes
21/02/1846 - 1st US woman telegrapher, Sarah G Bagley, Lowell, Mass
04/02/1847 - 1st US telegraph co established in Maryland
02/02/1848 - 1st ship load of Chinese arrive in SF
26/02/1848 - 2nd French Republic proclaimed
26/02/1848 - 2nd French Republic forms
18/02/1849 - 1st regular steamboat service to California starts (or 02/28)
28/02/1849 - 1st boat load of gold rush prospectors arrives in SF from east coast
11/02/1851 - 1st cricket 1st-class game in Australia, Tasmania v Vic, Launceston
02/02/1852 - 1st British public men's toilet opens (Fleet St London)
11/02/1852 - 1st British public female toilet opens (Bedford Street London)
22/02/1854 - 1st meeting of Republican Party (Michigan)
22/02/1856 - 1st national meeting of Republican Party (Pittsburgh)
24/02/1857 - 1st perforated US postage stamps delivered to govt
11/02/1858 - 1st apparition of Mary to 14-year-old Bernadette of Lourdes France
25/02/1859 - 1st use of "insanity plea" to prove innocence
01/02/1860 - 1st rabbi to open House of Representatives, Morris Raphall of NYC
05/02/1861 - 1st moving picture peep show machine is patented by Samuel Goodale
06/02/1861 - 1st meeting of Provisional Congress of Confederate States of America
13/02/1861 - 1st military action to result in Congressional Medal of Honor, AZ
10/02/1863 - 1st US fire extinguisher patent granted to Alanson Crane, Virginia
01/02/1864 - 2nd German-Danish war begins
04/02/1864 - 24th Amendment abolishes Poll tax
06/02/1864 - -7] Skirmish at Barnett's Ford Virginia
21/02/1864 - 1st US Catholic parish church for blacks dedicated, Baltimore
21/02/1864 - -22] Battle at Okolona, Mississippi

15/02/1910 - 9th earl of Jersey, English large landowner/art collector
27/02/1933 - 6th marquess of Bute, Scottish large landowner/bibliophile
29/08/1958 - Michael Jackson, Gary Indiana, singer (Thriller, Bad)

06/02/1958 - 7 soccer players of Manchester United, die in an aircrash at Munich

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