- 0962 - Translatio imperii: Pope John XII crowns Otto I, Holy Roman Emperor, the first Holy Roman Emperor in nearly 40 years.
- 1032 - Conrad II, Holy Roman Emperor becomes King of Burgundy.
- 1119 - Callixtus II becomes Pope.
- 1124 - Duke Bořivoj II of Bohemia dies.
- 1208 - James I of Aragon was born (d. 1276).
- 1218 - Konstantin of Rostov dies (b. 1186). Prince of Novgorod.
- 1250 - King Eric XI of Sweden dies (b. 1216).
- 1387 - Portugal: Casamento, na catedral do Porto, de D. João I com D. Filipa de Lencastre.
- 1455 - King John of Denmark dies (d. 1513).
- 1461 - Owen Tudor dies beheaded after the Battle of Mortimer’s Cross. Welsh founder of the Tudor dynasty of England
- 1494 - Bona Sforza was born (d. 1557). Queen of Poland and a second wife of Sigismund I of Poland
- 1502 - Damião de Góis was born (d. 1574). Portuguese philosopher.
- 1506 - René de Birague was born (d. 1583). French cardinal and chancellor.
- 1509 - Battle of Diu took place near Diu, India, between Portugal and Turkey.
- 1522 - Lodovico Ferrari was born (d. 1565). Italian mathematician.
- 1529 - Baldassare Castiglione dies (b. 1478). Italian writer.
- 1542 - Portuguese under Christovão da Gama capture a Moslem-occupied hillfort in northern Ethiopia in the Battle of Baçente
- 1556 - O pior terremoto da história atinge três províncias da China, causando a morte de aproximadamente 830.000 pessoas.
- 1559 - Damão é conquistado por Constantino de Bragança.
- 1580 - Bessho Nagaharu dies (b. 1558). Japanese retainer.
- 1594 - Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina dies (b. 1525). Italian composer.
- 1595 - Jacob Van Campen was born. Dutch architect and painter.
- 1600 - Gabriel Naudé was born (d. 1653). French librarian and scholar.
- 1613 - Noël Chabanel was born (d. 1649). French Jesuit missionary.
- 1621 - Johannes Schefferus was born (d. 1679). Alsatian-born humanist.
- 1641 - Prisão em Viena de Áustria do Infante D. Duarte, irmão de D. João IV, por pressão espanhola.
- 1648 - George Abbot dies (b. ca. 1603). English writer.
- 1649 - Pope Benedict XIII was born (d. 1730).
- 1650 - Nell Gwynne was born (d. 1687). English actress, royal mistress.
- 1653 - New Amsterdam (later renamed New York City) is incorporated.
- 1660 - Govert Flinck dies (b. 1615). Dutch painter.
- 1660 - Gaston, Duke of Orléans dies (b. 1608). French politician.
- 1661 - Lucas Holstenius dies (b. 1596). German humanist.
- 1669 - Louis Marchand was born (d. 1732). French organist and harpsichordist.
- 1688 - Abraham Duquesne dies (b. 1610). French naval officer.
- 1695 - William Borlase was born (d. 1772). English naturalist.
- 1700 - Johann Christoph Gottsched was born (d. 1766). German writer.
- 1704 - Guillaume François Antoine, Marquis de l'Hôpital dies (b. 1661). French mathematician.
- 1709 - Alexander Selkirk is rescued from shipwreck on a desert island, inspiring the book Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe.
- 1711 - Wenzel Anton von Kaunitz was born (b. 1794). Austrian diplomat.
- 1712 - Martin Lister dies. English naturalist and physician.
- 1714 - John Sharp dies (b. 1643). English Archbishop of Yorkshire.
- 1714 - Gottfried August Homilius was born (d. 1785). German composer.
- 1717 - Ernst Gideon Freiherr von Laudon was born (d. 1790). Austrian field marshal.
- 1734 - Forte abalo de terra em Faro e Portimão.
- 1745 - Hannah More was born in Stapleton, Glaucestershire. English religious writer, best known for her popular tracts and an educator of the poor.
- 1754 - Charles Maurice de Talleyrand was born (d. 1838). French politician.
- 1768 - Robert Smith dies (b. 1689). English mathematician.
- 1769 - Pope Clement XIII dies (b. 1693).
- 1802 - Jean Baptiste Boussingault was born (d. 1887). French chemist.
- 1802 - Welbore Ellis, 1st Baron Mendip dies (b. 1713). British statesman.
- 1803 - Albert Sidney Johnston was born (d. 1862). American Confederate general.
- 1806 - George Engelmann was born (d. 4 Feb 1884). American botanist, physician, and meteorologist who is known primarily for his botanical monographs, especially one on the cactus and also A Monography of North American Cuscutinae (1842).
- 1811 - Pedro João Baptista e Amaro José chegam a Tete, em Moçambique, completando assim a travessia de África, de costa a costa, iniciada em 1802 em Angola, em Cassengue.
- 1812 - Russia establishes a fur trading colony at Fort Ross, California.
- 1825 - El Gobierno de Buenos Aires y el británico firman un tratado contra la trata de esclavos.
- 1826 - Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin dies. French writer.
- 1829 - Alfred Brehm was born (d. 1884). German zoologist.
- 1832 - Ignacio López Rayón, muerte de, héroe de la independencia de méxico.
- 1841 - El Salvador se constituye en República unitaria e independiente.
- 1841 - François-Alphonse Forel was born (d. 1912). Swiss hydrologist.
- 1848 - Mexican-American War: The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo is signed ending the war.
- 1848 - California Gold Rush: The first ship with Chinese emigrants seeking fortune in California's gold country arrive in San Francisco.
- 1852 - José Guadalupe Posada was born. Mexican painter.
- 1852 - Se levanta la prohibición y se representa en París la "Dama de las Camelias".
- 1859 - Havelock Ellis was born (8 Jul 1939). American sex reformer.
- 1863 - Aparece el primer artículo de Samuel Langhorne Clemens firmado como Mark Twain.
- 1870 - Mark Twain, 34, marries Olivia Langdon in Elmira, New York.
- 1870 - It is revealed that the famed Cardiff Giant was just carved gypsum and not the petrified remains of a human.
- 1875 - Fritz Kreisler was born (d. 1962). Austrian violinist.
- 1876 - The National League of Professional Baseball Clubs of Major League Baseball is formed, consisting of Boston, Chicago, Cincinnati, New York, Philadelphia, St. Louis, Louisville & Hartford.
- 1878 - se funda en Argentina la ciudad de Resistencia (Chaco), en memoria del fortín establecido en el lugar, que resistió a las invasiones indígenas.
- 1878 - Alfréd Hajós was born (d. 1955). Hungarian swimmer.
- 1879 - US : 540 Paiutes arrive at Yakama reservation after a forced march through winter snows from Southern Oregon.
- 1880 - The first electric streetlight is installed in Wabash, Indiana.
- 1882 - The Knights of Columbus are formed in New Haven, Connecticut.
- 1882 - James Joyce was born in Dublin (d. 1941). Irish author (Ulysses).
- 1885 - El general Justo Rufino Barrios proclama en Guatemala la unión de la América Central.
- 1887 - In Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania the first Groundhog Day is observed.
- 1887 - Ernst Hanfstängl was born (d. 1975). Pianist, politician.
- 1888 - Frederick Lane was born (d. 1969). Australian swimmer.
- 1889 - Jean de Lattre de Tassigny was born (d. 11 Jan 1952). French army officer
- 1890 - "A Portuguesa", o actual hino nacional, é executado pela primeira vez, num sarau realizado em Lisboa.
- 1890 - Charles Correll was born (d. 1972). American actor.
- 1890 - Guillermo Rawson dies in Paris. Argentine Red Cross founder
- 1892 - Abertura do Porto de Santos, o maior do Brasil.
- 1893 - Cornelius Lanczos was born (d. 1974). Hungarian mathematician.
- 1895 - Archduke Albert dies (b. 1817). Austrian general.
- 1895 - George Halas was born (d. 1983). American football player, coach, co-founder of the National Football League.
- 1897 - The Pennsylvania state capitol is destroyed by fire.
- 1897 - Tratado de arbitrajes de límites en la Guayana Británica, firmado entre Venezuela y Gran Bretaña .
- 1897 - Howard Johnson was born (d. 1972). American hotelier.
- 1899 - The Australian Premiers' Conference held in Melbourne agrees Australia's capital (Canberra) should be located between Sydney and Melbourne.
- 1901 - Jascha Heifetz was born (d. 1987). Lithuanian violinist.
- 1902 - Mika Etchebehere (Michèle Feldman) was born (d. 1992). Argentinian Militant Marxist and anarchist. Fought in the Spanish Revolution with the P.O.U.M. and also with Cipriano Mera
- 1905 - Ayn Rand was born in St. Petersburg (d. 1982). Russian-born author. The Fountainhead Important film critic & so-called defender of the individual against the state & collectivism who slavishly adopted the missionary position before that august governmental body, HUAC (investigating Hollywood actor-communists plotting to take over the world), as a voluntary & friendly witness
- 1906 - Gale Gordon was born (d. 1995). American actor.
- 1907 - Dmitri Ivanovich Mendeleev dies (b. 8 Feb 1834). Russian chemist who developed the periodic classification of the elements.
- 1909 - Foundation of Fayal Sport Club . Portuguese club (Azores)
- 1911 - Jussi Bjorling was born (d. 9 Sep 1960). Swedish tenor.
- 1913 - Se inaugura en la ciudad de Nueva York la mayor estación ferroviaria del mundo.
- 1913 - Poul Reichhardt was born (d. 1985). Danish actor.
- 1915 - Abba Eban was born (d. 2002). Israeli diplomat.
- 1918 - Hella S. Haasse was born. Dutch writer (Onverenigbaarheid van karakter ("Incompatibility of Character," 1978) & De groten der aarde ("Great Figures of History," 1981).
- 1922 - Juan Marichal was born. Spanish historian and writer.
- 1922 - William Desmond Taylor dies (b. 1872). Irish film director .
- 1923 - James Dickey was born in Atlanta, Georgia (d. 1997). American poet, author. (Deliverance, 1970)
- 1923 - Liz Smith was born. American gossip columnist.
- 1923 - Bonita Granville was born (d. 1988). American actress.
- 1923 - Red Schoendienst was born. American baseball player and manager
- 1924 - Elfi von Dassanowsky was born. Austrian-American producer and musician .
- 1925 - Elaine Stritch was born. American actress .
- 1925 - Jaap Eden dies (b. 1873). Dutch skater and cyclist .
- 1926 - Valéry Giscard d'Estaing was born. French politician and President .
- 1927 - Stan Getz was born (d. 1991). Jazz musician.
- 1928 - Aloyisus Leon Higginbotham, Jr. was born. Civil rights activist and author
- 1931 - Dries van Agt was born. Dutch politician.
- 1931 - Judith Viorst was born. American author.
- 1931 -- Argentinean anarchist Paulino Scarfo dies in a shoot out with police.
- 1932 - Robert Mandan was born. American actor.
- 1932 - Santiago de Cuba is devassed by an earthquake.
- 1932 - First world disarmament convention opens, Geneva, Switzerland.
- 1933 - A sólo dos días de asumir como Canciller Hitler disuelve el Parlamento alemán.
- 1933 - Adolf Hitler dissolves the German Parliament.
- 1935 - The polygraph machine is tested for the first time. Leonard Keeler conducted the experiment in Portage, Wisconsin.
- 1935 - Leonard Keeler realiza el primer test con el detector de mentiras.
- 1937 - Eric Arturo del Valle was born. President of Panama ( 28 Sep 1985 to 26 Feb 1988).
- 1937 - Tom Smothers was born. American musician and comedian (the Smothers Brothers).
- 1939 - João César Monteiro was born in Figueira da Foz. Portuguese film director.
- 1940 - Conferencia de Paz de los Estados balcánicos celebrada en Belgrado.
- 1940 - Frank Sinatra debuts with the Tommy Dorsey orchestra.
- 1940 - David Jason was born. English actor.
- 1942 - Christine Keeler was born. British model.
- 1942 - Graham Nash was born. American musician.
- 1942 - Daniil Kharms dies (b. 1906). Russian playwright.
- 1943 - World War II: The last Nazi forces surrender to the Soviets following the Battle of Stalingrad.
- 1944 - Geoffrey Hughes was born. British actor.
- 1945 - World War II: President Franklin D. Roosevelt and British Prime Minister Winston Churchill leave to meet with Soviet leader Joseph Stalin at the Yalta Conference.
- 1947 - Farrah Fawcett was born. American actress .
- 1947 - Melanie Safka was born. American singer.
- 1948 - Bevil Rudd dies. South African athlete.
- 1949 - Brent Spiner was born. American actor .
- 1949 - Ross Valory was born. American musician (Journey)
- 1950 - Débora Duarte was born. Brazilian actress.
- 1950 - Barbara Sukowa was born in Bremen. German actress.
- 1950 - Constantin Carathéodory dies (b. 1873). Greek mathematician.
- 1952 - A tropical storm forms north of Cuba and moves northeast making landfall in Florida. It is the earliest reported formation of a tropical storm on record in the Atlantic basin.
- 1954 - Christie Brinkley was born. American model.
- 1956 - Charles Grapewin dies (b. 1869). American actor.
- 1957 - Grigory Landsberg dies (b. 1890). Russian physicist.
- 1957 - President Iskander Mirza of Pakistan lays the foundation-stone of the Guddu Barrage across river Indus near Sukkur.
- 1959 - Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens & the Big Bopper make their last onstage appearances during the GAC Winter Show tour, at the Surf Ballroom in Clear Lake, Iowa.
- 1962 - Planets align : eight of the nine planets lined up for the first time in 400 years.
- 1963 - Más de 100 niños muertos en Biblian (Ecuador) al derrumbarse una escuela.
- 1963 - Eva Cassidy was born (d. 1996). American singer.
- 1966 - Robert DeLeo was born. American musician (Stone Temple Pilots).
- 1967 - Arturs Irbe was born. Latvian hockey player
- 1967 - The American Basketball Association is formed.
- 1967 - Arturs Irbe was born. Latvian ice-hockey player, goalkeeper .
- 1967 - General Anastasio Somoza Debayle is elected President of Nicaragua.
- 1967 - Robert Oppenheimer dies. American physicist.
- 1969 - Valeri Karpin was born. Russian footballer
- 1969 - Roberto Sousa Rocha (Latino) was born. Brazilian pop singer.
- 1969 - Boris Karloff dies (b. 1887). English actor.
- 1970 - Bertrand Russell dies Penthyndendrach, País de Gales (b. 18 May 1872). Welsh mathematician and philosopher; recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature. His War Crimes Tribunal was instrumental in providing a world forum "The governors of the world believe, and have always believed, that virtue can only be taught by teaching falsehood, and that any man who knew the truth would be wicked. I disbelieve this, absolutely and entirely. I believe that love of truth is the basis of all real virtue, and that virtues based upon lies can only do harm."
- 1975 - Ieroklis Stoltidis was born. Greek football player.
- 1976 - James Hickman was born. British swimmer.
- 1976 - Aprovação da Constituição, pela Assembleia Constituinte eleita em 25 e Abril de 1975.
- 1976 - Robo de 119 cuadros de la última época de Picasso en el palacio de los Papas de Aviñón.
- 1977 - Shakira was born. Colombian, pop singer .
- 1978 - Bárbara Mori was born. Uruguayan-Mexican actress.
- 1979 - Sid Vicious of Sex Pistols dies of a heroin overdose (b. 1957).
- 1980 - William Howard Stein dies (b. 25 Jun 1911). American biologist winner of the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1972 for their studies of the pancreatic enzyme ribonuclease.
- 1980 - Abscam: Reports surface that FBI personnel were targeting members of the U.S. Congress in a sting operation.
- 1980 - Founding congress of the Revolutionary Communist Party of Turkey.
- 1981 - Ecuador y Perú acuerdan un alto el fuego en su conflicto fronterizo, en una reunión de la OEA.
- 1981 - O Ministério dos Transportes apresenta o resultado do inquérito ao acidente de Camarate, em que perderam a vida, entre outros, o primeiro-ministro Francisco Sá Carneiro, e o ministro da Defesa, Adelino Amaro da Costa. A conclusão final diz não ter havido intervenção ilícita ou criminosa no bimotor Cessna.
- 1982 - Hama Massacre: The government of Syria attacked the town of Hama and killed thousands of people.
- 1983 - Jordin Tootoo was born. Canadian hockey player
- 1986 - Oscar Arias Sanchez vence as eleições presidenciais na Costa Rica.
- 1986 - Nurse Anita Cobby is found dead in a paddock in Prospect, a suburb of Sydney, Australia. She had been robbed, raped, and murdered. Five men (Micheal Murphy, Gary Murphy, Les Murphy, Micheal Murdoch, and John Travers) are later sentenced to life imprisonment without parole in June of 1987 for Anita Cobby's murder.
- 1986 - El Dalai Lama se encuentra con el Papa Juan Pablo II en la India.
- 1987 - Peace envoy imprisoned in Beirut: Reports from Lebanon say Church of England envoy Terry Waite has been kidnapped by an Islamic militia group.
- 1987 - Na famosa revista “People”, leitores norte-americanos elegeram a atriz Katharine Hepburn e o ator Cary Grant como os maiores atores de todos os tempos.
- 1987 - Martin Spanjers was born. American actor
- 1987 - Castilho dies (b. 1927). Brazilian legendary football goalkeeper.
- 1987 - Alistair MacLean dies (b. 1922). Scottish novelist.
- 1989 - Carlos Andrés Perez assume a presidência da Venezuela.
- 1989 - Cai o ditador do Paraguai Alfredo Stroessner, que se exila no Brasil.
- 1989 - Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan: The last Soviet Union armored column leaves Kabul ending nine years of military occupation.
- 1990 - Apartheid: In South Africa President F.W. de Klerk allows the African National Congress to legally function again and promises to set Nelson Mandela free.
- 1994 - O estadista veterano Rafael Caldera assume a presidencia da Venezuela.
- 1995 - Donald Pleasence dies (b. 1919). English actor.
- 1996 - Gene Kelly dies (b. 1912). American dancer, actor, director.
- 1997 - Raimundo Saporta dies. President of honour of Real Madrid.
- 1997 - Sanford Meisner dies (b. 1904). American actor.
- 1997 - Erich Eliskases dies (b. 1913). Austrian chess player.
- 1998 - A Cebu Pacific airlines DC-9-32 crashes into a mountain near Cagayan de Oro, Philippines killing 104 .
- 2003 - Lou Harrison dies (b. 1917). American composer.
- 2004 - Bernard McEveety dies (b. 1924). American film director.
- 2004 -Israel killed a leader of Islamic Jihad and three other militants in a Gaza raid.
- 2005 - Max Schmeling dies (b. 1905). German boxer.
- Catholicism - Candlemas, The Presentation of the Lord, The Purification of the Blessed Virgin Mary, World Day for Consecrated Life (also February 3 in the United State)
Amor, morte, poesia, política, actualidade, futebol, efemérides, solidão, paz, humor, musica...tudo e nada; Here we talk about life, love, death,
On this day in History, poetry, politics, football (soccer), solitude, peace, humour, music ... nothing and all.
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