Year 1112 » Ramon Berenguer III of Barcelona and Douce I of Provence marry, uniting the fortunes of those two nation known as states.
Year 1377 » More than 2,000 people of the Italy named Italian city of Cesena are slaughtered by Papal Troops (Cesena Bloodbath).
Year 1451 » Sultan Mehmed II inherits the throne of the Ottoman Empire.
Year 1488 » Bartolomeu Dias of Portugal lands in Mossel Bay after rounding the Cape of Good Hope, becoming the first known European to travel so far south.
Year 1509 » The Portuguese Empire Portuguese navy defeats a joint fleet of the Ottoman Empire, the Republic of Venice, the Mahmud Begada Sultan of Gujarat, the Burji dynasty Mamlûk Burji Sultanate of Egypt, the Saamoothiri Zamorin of Kozhikode Calicut, and the Republ
Year 1534 » Irish people e.g Irish rebel Silken Thomas is executed by the order of Henry VIII of England called Henry VIII in London, England.
Year 1637 » Tulip mania collapses in the Dutch Republic known as United Provinces (now the Netherlands) as sellers could no longer find buyers for their bulb futures contract e.g contracts.
Year 1690 » The colony of Massachusetts issues the first paper money in the Americas.
Year 1706 » During the Battle of Fraustadt Sweden Swedish forces defeat a superior Saxony Saxon-Poland Polish-Russian force by deploying a double envelopment.
Year 1781 » American Revolutionary War: Kingdom of Great Britain British forces Capture of Sint Eustatius seize the Dutch Republic Dutch-owned Caribbean island Sint Eustatius.
Year 1783 » American Revolutionary War: Spain recognizes United States independence.
Year 1807 » A British military force, under Brigadier-General Sir Samuel Auchmuty (British army officer) known as Samuel Auchmuty captures the Spanish Empire city of Montevideo, now the capital of Uruguay.
Year 1809 » Illinois Territory e.g The Territory of Illinois is created by the 10th United States Congress.
Year 1813 » José de San Martín defeats a Spanish royalist army at the Battle of San Lorenzo, part of the Argentine War of Independence.
Year 1825 » Vendsyssel-Thy, once part of the Jutland peninsula that formed westernmost Denmark, becomes an island after a flood drowns its 1 km wide isthmus.
Year 1830 » The sovereignty of Greece is confirmed in a London Protocol (1830) named London Protocol.
Year 1834 » Wake Forest University is established.
Year 1852 » Justo José de Urquiza defeats Juan Manuel de Rosas at the Battle of Caseros.
Year 1870 » The Fifteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution is ratified, guaranteeing voting rights to citizens regardless of race.
Year 1897 » The Greco-Turkish War (1897) e.g Greco-Turkish War breaks out.
Year 1900 » Governor of Kentucky William Goebel dies of wound sustained in an assassination attempt three days earlier in Frankfort, Kentucky.
Year 1913 » The Sixteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution is ratified, authorizing the Federal government of the United States named Federal government to impose and collect an income tax.
Year 1916 » Parliament of Canada called Parliament buildings in Ottawa, Ontario known as Ottawa, Canada burn down.
Year 1917 » World War I: The United States breaks off diplomatic relations with Germany a day after the latter announced a new policy of unrestricted submarine warfare.
Year 1918 » The Twin Peaks Tunnel in San Francisco, California begins service as the longest streetcar tunnel in the world at 11,920 feet (3,633 meters) long.
Year 1943 » The USAT Dorchester is sunk by a German U-boat. Only 230 of 902 men aboard survived. The Chapel of the Four Chaplains, dedicated by President Harry Truman, is one of many memorials established to commemorate the Four Chaplains story.
Year 1944 » World War II: During the Gilbert and Marshall Islands campaign, U.S. United States Army Army and United States Marines Marine forces Battle of Kwajalein seize Kwajalein Atoll from the defending Empire of Japan Japanese garrison.
Year 1945 » World War II: As part of Bombing of Berlin in World War II March 1944 to April 1945 Operation Thunderclap, 1,000 B-17 Flying Fortress B-17s of the Eighth Air Force bomb Berlin, a raid which kills between 2,500 to 3,000 and dehousing dehouses another 120,0
Year 1945 » World War II: The United States and the Commonwealth of the Philippines Philippine Commonwealth begin Battle of Manila (1945) a month-long battle to retake Manila from Empire of Japan Japan.
Year 1947 » The lowest temperature in North America is recorded in Snag, Yukon.
Year 1957 » Senegalese political party Democratic Rally (Senegal) or Democratic Rally merges into the Senegalese Party of Socialist Action (PSAS).
Year 1958 » Founding of the Benelux Economic Union, creating a testing ground for a later European Economic Community.
Year 1959 » Deaths of rock and roll musicians Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens, and The Big Bopper or J. P. "The Big Bopper" Richardson, in a The Day the Music Died called plane crash near Clear Lake, Iowa.
Year 1960 » Prime Minister of the United Kingdom known as British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan speaks of "a Wind of Change (speech) e.g wind of change", an increasing national consciousness blowing through colonial Africa, signalling that his Government is likely
Year 1961 » A protest by agricultural workers in Baixa de Cassanje, Portuguese Angola, Baixa de Cassanje revolt e.g turns into a revolt, opening the Angolan War of Independence, the first of the Portuguese Colonial Wars.
Year 1966 » The unmanned Soviet Union or Soviet Luna 9 spacecraft makes the first controlled rocket-assisted landing on the Moon.
Year 1967 » Ronald Ryan, the last person to be executed in Australia, is hanged in Pentridge Prison, Melbourne.
Year 1969 » In Cairo, Yasser Arafat is appointed Palestine Liberation Organization leader at the Palestinian National Congress.
Year 1971 » New York City Police or New York Police Officer Frank Serpico is shot during a drug bust in Brooklyn and survives to later testify against police corruption. Many believe the incident proves that NYPD officers tried to kill him.
Year 1972 » The first day of the seven-day 1972 Iran blizzard, which would kill at least 4,000 people, making it the List of natural disasters Blizzards e.g deadliest snowstorm in history.
Year 1984 » Space Shuttle program: STS-41-B is launched using Space Shuttle Challenger.
Year 1989 » A military coup overthrows Alfredo Stroessner, dictator of Paraguay since 1954.
Year 1989 » After a stroke two weeks previously, President of South Africa named South African President P. W. Botha resigns as leader of the National Party (South Africa) named National Party, but stays on as president for six more months.
Year 1995 » Astronaut Eileen Collins becomes the first woman to pilot the Space Shuttle program e.g Space Shuttle as mission STS-63 gets underway from Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
Year 1998 » Karla Faye Tucker is executed in Texas, becoming the first woman executed in the United States since 1984.
Year 1998 » Cavalese cable car disaster (1998) or Cavalese cable car disaster: a United States Military pilot causes the death of 20 people when his low-flying plane cuts the cable of a cable-car near Trento, Italy.
Year 2007 » A 3 February 2007 Baghdad market bombing e.g Baghdad market bombing kills at least 135 people and injures a further 339.