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Events
506 – Alaric II, eighth king of the Visigoths promulgates the Breviary of Alaric (Breviarium Alaricianum or Lex Romana Visigothorum), a collection of "Roman law".
962 – 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.
1141 – The Battle of Lincoln, at which King Stephen is defeated and captured by the allies of Empress Matilda.
1207 – Terra Mariana, comprising present-day Estonia and Latvia, is established.
1461 – Wars of the Roses: The Battle of Mortimer's Cross is fought in Herefordshire, England.
1536 – Spaniard Pedro de Mendoza founds Buenos Aires, Argentina.
1542 – Portuguese forces under Cristóvão da Gama capture a Muslim-occupied hill fort in northern Ethiopia in the Battle of Baçente.
1653 – New Amsterdam (later renamed The City of New York) is incorporated.
1709 – Alexander Selkirk is rescued after being shipwrecked on a desert island, inspiring the book Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe.
1848 – Mexican–American War: The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo is signed.
1848 – California Gold Rush: The first ship with Chinese immigrants arrives in San Francisco
1868 – Pro-Imperial forces captured Osaka Castle from the Tokugawa shogunate and burned it to the ground.
1876 – The National League of Professional Baseball Clubs of Major League Baseball is formed.
1887 – In Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania the first Groundhog Day is observed.
1899 – The Australian Premiers' Conference held in Melbourne decides to locate Australia's capital city, Canberra, between Sydney and Melbourne.
1901 – Funeral of Queen Victoria.
1913 – New York City.'s Grand Central Terminal opens. It remains the world's largest train station, when measured by number of platforms.
1914 – Charlie Chaplin's first film appearance, Making a Living, premiered.
1920 – The Tartu Peace Treaty is signed between Estonia and Russia.
1920 – France occupies Memel.
1922 – Ulysses by James Joyce is published.
1925 – Serum run to Nome: Dog sleds reach Nome, Alaska with diphtheria serum, inspiring the Iditarod race.
1933 – Working as maids, the sisters Christine and Léa Papin murder their employer's wife and daughter in Le Mans, France. The case is the subject of a number of French films and plays.
1934 – The Export-Import Bank of the United States is incorporated.
1935 – Leonarde Keeler tests the first polygraph machine.
1936 – Babe Ruth was elected into the Baseball Hall of Fame
1942 – The Osvald Group is responsible for the first, active event of anti-Nazi resistance in Norway, to protest the inauguration of Vidkun Quisling.
1943 – World War II: The Battle of Stalingrad comes to conclusion as Soviet troops accept the surrender of the last 91,000 remnants of German forces in the city.
1957 – Iskander Mirza of Pakistan lays the foundation-stone of the Guddu Barrage.
1959 – Dyatlov Pass incident.
1964 – Mattel launched G.I. Joe.
1966 – Pakistan suggests a six-point agenda with Kashmir after the Indo-Pakistani War of 1965.
1971: Idi Amin proclaims himself President of Uganda. having seized power from President Milton Obote.
1971 – The international Ramsar Convention for the conservation and sustainable utilization of wetlands is signed in Ramsar, Mazandaran, Iran.
1972 – The British embassy in Dublin is destroyed in protest at Bloody Sunday.
1976 – The Groundhog Day gale hits the north-eastern United States and south-eastern Canada.
1980 – Reports surface that the FBI is targeting allegedly corrupt Congressmen in the Abscam operation.
1982 – Hama massacre: The government of Syria attacks the town of Hama.
1987 – After the 1986 People Power Revolution, the Philippines enacts a new constitution.
1988 – Auntie Anne's is founded by Anne F. Beiler in Lancaster, Pennsylvania
1989 – Soviet war in Afghanistan: The last Soviet armoured column leaves Kabul.
1990 – Apartheid: F. W. de Klerk announces the unbanning of the African National Congress and promises to release Nelson Mandela.
2000 – First digital cinema projection in Europe (Paris) realized by Philippe Binant with the DLP CINEMA technology developed by Texas Instruments.
2004 – Swiss tennis player Roger Federer becomes the No. 1 ranked men's singles player, a position he will hold for a record 237 weeks.
2007 – The worst flooding in Indonesia in 300 years begins.
2012 – The ferry MV Rabaul Queen sinks off the coast of Papua New Guinea near the Finschhafen District, with an estimated 300 people missing.
Saints' Days and Holy Days
Traditional Western
Purification of the Blessed Virgin Mary. Double of the Second Class.
Contemporary Western
Candlemas
Cornelius the Centurion
Théophane Vénard (one of Vietnamese Martyrs)
Anglican, Episcopal, Lutheran
Eastern Orthodox
February 2 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
Feasts
The Presentation of our Lord, God and Savior Jesus Christ in the Temple
(also The Meeting of the Lord, or Hypapante), 40 days after His sacred birth
Saints
Martyr Agathadorus of Tyana in Cappadocia.
Pre-Schism Western Saints
Saint Apronian, a Roman executioner who converted to Orthodoxy when taking the
martyr St Sisinnius before the tribunal and was then himself martyred (c. 304)
Saint Flosculus (Flou), Bishop of Orleans in France (c. 480)
Saint Laurence of Canterbury, the second Archbishop of Canterbury (619)
Saint Adalbert I of Ostrevent (Adalbald), founder of Marchiennes Abbey (652)
Saint Feock, a saint recalled by a church dedication in Cornwall
Saint Adeloga (Hadeloga), first Abbess of Kitzingen in Germany (c. 745)
Martyrs of Ebsdorf, martyred at the Battle of Luneberg Heath near Ebsdorf,
Saxony (880)
Saint Marquard, Bishop of Hildesheim, martyred with others at Ebsdorf in
Germany (880)
Saint Theodoric, third Bishop of Ninden, martyred with others at Ebsdorf in
Germany (880)
Saint Columbanus, born in Ireland, he lived as a hermit near the church of
Saint-Bavo in Ghent in Belgium (959)
Post-Schism Orthodox Saints
New Martyr Jordan of Trebizond, at Constantinople (1650)
New Hieromartyr Gabriel, Hierodeacon, of Constantinople (1676)
Venerable Anthimos (Vagianos) of Chios (1960)
Venerable Ekvtime (Kereselidze) the Confessor, of Georgia (1944)
Other commemorations
Repose of Schema-monk Seraphim of Valaam Monastery (1860)Traditional Western
Purification of the Blessed Virgin Mary. Double of the Second Class.
Contemporary Western
Candlemas
Cornelius the Centurion
Théophane Vénard (one of Vietnamese Martyrs)
Anglican, Episcopal, Lutheran
Eastern Orthodox
February 2 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
Feasts
The Presentation of our Lord, God and Savior Jesus Christ in the Temple
(also The Meeting of the Lord, or Hypapante), 40 days after His sacred birth
Saints
Martyr Agathadorus of Tyana in Cappadocia.
Pre-Schism Western Saints
Saint Apronian, a Roman executioner who converted to Orthodoxy when taking the
martyr St Sisinnius before the tribunal and was then himself martyred (c. 304)
Saint Flosculus (Flou), Bishop of Orleans in France (c. 480)
Saint Laurence of Canterbury, the second Archbishop of Canterbury (619)
Saint Adalbert I of Ostrevent (Adalbald), founder of Marchiennes Abbey (652)
Saint Feock, a saint recalled by a church dedication in Cornwall
Saint Adeloga (Hadeloga), first Abbess of Kitzingen in Germany (c. 745)
Martyrs of Ebsdorf, martyred at the Battle of Luneberg Heath near Ebsdorf,
Saxony (880)
Saint Marquard, Bishop of Hildesheim, martyred with others at Ebsdorf in
Germany (880)
Saint Theodoric, third Bishop of Ninden, martyred with others at Ebsdorf in
Germany (880)
Saint Columbanus, born in Ireland, he lived as a hermit near the church of
Saint-Bavo in Ghent in Belgium (959)
Post-Schism Orthodox Saints
New Martyr Jordan of Trebizond, at Constantinople (1650)
New Hieromartyr Gabriel, Hierodeacon, of Constantinople (1676)
Venerable Anthimos (Vagianos) of Chios (1960)
Venerable Ekvtime (Kereselidze) the Confessor, of Georgia (1944)
Other commemorations
Icons
Synaxis of the Icon of the Theotokos the Hypapante of Kalamata, patron saint
of Kalamata
Synaxis of the Icon of the Theotokos "Apekois" (Ypakoe), at the Church of the
Hypapante on Kalymnos
Synaxis of the Icon of the Theotokos "Dreadful Bee", at Leivadi on Kythira
Synaxis of the Icon of the Theotokos of Goumenissa
Synaxis of the Icon of the Theotokos "'Flevariotissa' or 'Libya'", at Mesaria
on the island of Astypalaia
Synaxis of the Icon of the Theotokos "Flevariotissa", at Ampelakia on Salamis Island
Synaxis of the Icon of the Theotokos "Chrysaliniotissa", in Leukosia, Cyprus
Malankara OrthodoxSynaxis of the Icon of the Theotokos the Hypapante of Kalamata, patron saint
of Kalamata
Synaxis of the Icon of the Theotokos "Apekois" (Ypakoe), at the Church of the
Hypapante on Kalymnos
Synaxis of the Icon of the Theotokos "Dreadful Bee", at Leivadi on Kythira
Synaxis of the Icon of the Theotokos of Goumenissa
Synaxis of the Icon of the Theotokos "'Flevariotissa' or 'Libya'", at Mesaria
on the island of Astypalaia
Synaxis of the Icon of the Theotokos "Flevariotissa", at Ampelakia on Salamis Island
Synaxis of the Icon of the Theotokos "Chrysaliniotissa", in Leukosia, Cyprus
Commemoration of HG Pathros Mar Osthatheos
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