SomeFacts | February 7

On this day - February 7

457 — Leo I becomes the Eastern Roman emperor.

987 — Bardas Phokas the Younger and Bardas Skleros, Byzantine ...

1285 — A synod at Blachernae convened by anti-Unionist Greek clergy ...

1301 — Edward of Caernarvon (later King Edward II of England) becomes ...

1313 — King Thihathu founds the Pinya Kingdom as the de jure ...

1365 — Albert III of Mecklenburg (King Albert of Sweden) grants city ...

1497 — In Florence, Italy, supporters of Girolamo Savonarola burn ...

1756 — Guaraní War: The leader of the Guaraní rebels, Sepé Tiaraju, ...

1783 — American Revolutionary War: French and Spanish forces lift the ...

1795 — The 11th Amendment to the United States Constitution is ...

1807 — Napoleonic Wars: Napoleon finds Bennigsen's Russian ...

1812 — The strongest in a series of earthquakes strikes New Madrid, ...

1813 — In the action of 7 February 1813 near the Îles de Los, the ...

1819 — Sir Thomas Stamford Raffles leaves Singapore after just taking ...

1842 — Battle of Debre Tabor: Ras Ali Alula, Regent of the Emperor of ...

1854 — A law is approved to found the Swiss Federal Institute of ...

1863 — HMS Orpheus sinks off the coast of Auckland, New Zealand, ...

1894 — The Cripple Creek miner's strike, led by the Western ...

1898 — Dreyfus affair: Émile Zola is brought to trial for libel for ...

1900 — A Chinese immigrant in San Francisco falls ill to bubonic ...

1900 — Second Boer War: British troops fail in their third attempt to ...

1904 — The Great Baltimore Fire begins in Baltimore, Maryland; it ...

1940 — The second full-length animated Walt Disney film, Pinocchio, ...

1943 — World War II: Imperial Japanese Navy forces complete the ...

1944 — World War II: In Anzio, Italy, German forces launch a ...

1951 — Korean War: More than 700 suspected communist sympathizers are ...

1962 — The United States bans all Cuban imports and exports.

1964 — The Beatles land in the United States for the first time, at ...

1966 — The Great Fire of Iloilo breaks out in a lumber yard in Iznart ...

1974 — Grenada gains independence from the United Kingdom.

1979 — Pluto moves inside Neptune's orbit for the first time ...

1981 — A plane crash at Pushkin Airport kills 50 people, including 16 ...

1984 — Space Shuttle program: STS-41-B Mission: astronauts Bruce ...

1986 — Twenty-eight years of one-family rule end in Haiti, when ...

1990 — Dissolution of the Soviet Union: The Central Committee of the ...

1991 — The Troubles: The Provisional IRA launches a mortar attack on ...

1991 — Haiti's first democratically elected president, ...

1992 — The Maastricht Treaty is signed, leading to the creation of ...

1995 — Ramzi Yousef, the mastermind of the 1993 World Trade Center ...

1999 — Crown Prince Abdullah becomes the King of Jordan on the death ...

2001 — Space Shuttle program: Space Shuttle Atlantis is launched on ...

2009 — Bushfires in Victoria leave 173 dead in the worst natural ...

2012 — President Mohamed Nasheed of the Republic of Maldives resigns, ...

2013 — The U.S. state of Mississippi officially certifies the ...

2014 — Scientists announce that the Happisburgh footprints in ...

2016 — North Korea launches Kwangmyŏngsŏng-4 into outer space ...

2021 — The 2021 Uttarakhand flood begins.

2024 — Pakistan election offices are hit by twin bombings, killing at ...