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Events
705 – Empress Wu Zetian abdicates the throne, restoring the Tang dynasty.
1316 – Battle of Picotin between Ferdinand of Majorca and the forces of Matilda of Hainaut.
1371 – Robert II becomes King of Scotland, beginning the Stuart dynasty.
1495 – King Charles VIII of France enters Naples to claim the city's throne.
1632 – Galileo's Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems (Dialogo sopra i due massimi sistemi del mondo) is published.
1651 – St. Peter's Flood: A storm surge floods the Frisian coast, drowning 15,000 people.
1744 – War of the Austrian Succession: The Battle of Toulon begins.
1784 – The Empress of China sets sail from New York; it is the first U.S. ship to trade with China.
1797 – The Last Invasion of Britain begins near Fishguard, Wales.
1819 – By the Adams–Onís Treaty, Spain sells Florida to the United States for five million U.S. dollars.
1821 – Greek War of Independence: Alexander Ypsilantis crosses the Prut river at Sculeni into the Danubian Principalities.
1847 – Mexican–American War: The Battle of Buena Vista: 5,000 American troops defeat 15,000 Mexicans.
1853 – Washington University in St. Louis is founded as Eliot Seminary in St. Louis, Missouri.
1855 – The Pennsylvania State University is founded in State College, Pennsylvania (as the Farmers' High School of Pennsylvania).
1856 – The Republican Party opens its first national meeting in Pittsburgh.
1862 – Jefferson Davis is officially inaugurated for a six-year term as the President of the Confederate States of America in Richmond, Virginia. He was previously inaugurated as a provisional president on February 18, 1861
1872 – The Prohibition Party holds its first national convention in Columbus, Ohio, nominating James Black as its presidential nominee.
1879 – In Utica, New York, Frank Woolworth opens the first of many of 5 and dime Woolworth stores.
1889 – United States President Grover Cleveland signs a bill admitting North Dakota, South Dakota, Montana and Washington as U.S. states.
1899 – Filipino forces led by General Antonio Luna launch counterattacks for the first time against the American forces during the Philippine–American War. The Filipinos fail to regain Manila from the Americans.
1904 – The United Kingdom sells a meteorological station on the South Orkney Islands to Argentina, the islands are subsequently claimed by the United Kingdom in 1908.
1909 – The sixteen battleships of the Great White Fleet, led by USS Connecticut, return to the United States after a voyage around the world.
1915 – World War I: Germany institutes unrestricted submarine warfare.
1921 – After Russian forces under Baron Roman von Ungern-Sternberg drive the Chinese out, the Bogd Khan is reinstalled as the emperor of Mongolia.
1924 – U.S. President Calvin Coolidge becomes the first President to deliver a radio broadcast from the White House.
1942 – World War II: President Franklin D. Roosevelt orders General Douglas MacArthur out of the Philippines as the Japanese victory becomes inevitable.
1943 – World War II: Members of the White Rose resistance, Sophie Scholl, Hans Scholl, and Christoph Probst are executed in Nazi Germany.
1944 – World War II: American aircraft mistakenly bomb the Dutch towns of Nijmegen, Arnhem, Enschede and Deventer, resulting in 800 dead in Nijmegen alone.
1944 – World War II: The Soviet Red Army recaptures Krivoi Rog.
1948 – Communist revolution in Czechoslovakia.
1957 – Ngô Đình Diệm of South Vietnam survives a communist shooting assassination attempt in Buôn Ma Thuột.
1958 – Egypt and Syria join to form the United Arab Republic.
1959 – Lee Petty wins the first Daytona 500.
1972 – The Official Irish Republican Army detonates a car bomb at Aldershot barracks, killing seven and injuring nineteen others.
1973 – Cold War: Following President Richard Nixon's visit to the People's Republic of China, the two countries agree to establish liaison offices.
1974 – The Organisation of the Islamic Conference summit begins in Lahore, Pakistan. Thirty-seven countries attend and twenty-two heads of state and government participate. It also recognizes Bangladesh.
1974 – Samuel Byck tries and fails to assassinate U.S. President Richard Nixon.
1979 – Independence of Saint Lucia from the United Kingdom.
1980 – Miracle on Ice: In Lake Placid, New York, the United States hockey team defeats the Soviet Union hockey team 4–3.
1983 – The notorious Broadway flop Moose Murders opens and closes on the same night at the Eugene O'Neill Theatre.
1986 – Start of the People Power Revolution in the Philippines.
1994 – Aldrich Ames and his wife are charged by the United States Department of Justice with spying for the Soviet Union.
1995 – The Corona reconnaissance satellite program, in existence from 1959 to 1972, is declassified.
1997 – In Roslin, Scottish scientists announce that an adult sheep named Dolly has been successfully cloned.
2002 – Angolan political and rebel leader Jonas Savimbi is killed in a military ambush.
2006 – At least six men stage Britain's biggest robbery, stealing £53m (about $92.5 million or €78 million) from a Securitas depot in Tonbridge, Kent.
2011 – New Zealand's second deadliest earthquake strikes Christchurch, killing 185 people.
2011 – Bahraini uprising: Tens of thousands of people march in protest against the deaths of seven victims killed by police and army forces during previous protests.
2012 – A train crash in Buenos Aires, Argentina, kills 51 people and injures 700 others.
2014 – President Viktor Yanukovych of Ukraine is impeached by the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine by a vote of 328–0, fulfilling a major goal of the Euromaidan rebellion.
2015 – A ferry carrying 100 passengers capsizes in the Padma River, killing 70 people.
Saints' Days and Holy Days
Traditional Western
The Chair of St. Peter at Antioch. Greater Double.
Commemoration of St. Paul.
Contemporary Western
Baradates
Feast of the Chair of Saint Peter (Roman Catholic Church)
Margaret of Cortona
Anglican, Episcopal, Lutheran
Eric Liddell (Episcopal Church (USA))
Eastern Orthodox
February 22 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
Saints
Saint Abilius (Avilius), Bishop of Alexandria (98)
Saint Telesphorus, Pope of Rome (136)
Saint Papius of Hierapolis (2nd c.)
Martyr Synesius (Synetus), by the sword
Martyrs Maurice, his son Photinus, Theodore, Philip, and 70 soldiers,
at Apamea in Syria (286-305)
Martyrs Anthusa and her 12 servants, by the sword
Saint Titus of Bostra, Bishop of Bostra in Arabia (378)
Saint Ariston the Wonderworker, Bishop of Arsinoe, Cyprus (Famagusta)
(c. late 4th - early 5th c.)
Venerable Baradates, hermit near Antioch (469)
Venerable Saints Thalassius and Limnaeus, hermits near Cyrrhus (5th c.)
Holy Nine Children of Kola, Georgia (6th c.):
Guarami, Adarnasi, Bakari, Vache, Bardzini, Dachi, Djuansheri, Ramazi,
and Parsmani.
Saint Leontius of Lycia (6th c.)
Saints Babylus and his wife Comnita, of Nicosa (7th c.)
Venerable Athanasius the Confessor of Constantinople (821)
Saint Peter the Stylite of Mount Athos
Saint Blaise, Bishop
Pre-Schism Western Saints
Saint Paschasius, eleventh Bishop of Vienne in France (c. 312)
Saint Maximianus of Ravenna, Bishop of Ravenna (c. 556)
Saint Elwin (Elwen), missionary, a holy man who accompanied St Breaca
from Ireland to Cornwall (6th c.)
Saint John the Saxon, born in Saxony in Germany, he restored monasticism
in England after the Danish attacks, Abbot of Athelney (895)
Saint Raynerius (Raynier), a monk at Beaulieu near Limoges, France (c. 967)
Post-Schism Orthodox Saints
Saint Herman, founder of Stolobny Monastery, Novgorod (1614)
Saint Simon (Todorsky) of the Kiev Caves Lavra, Professor of the Kyiv-Mohyla
Academy, Archbishop of Pskov (1754)
New Martyrs and Confessors
New Hieromartyr Michael Lisitsyn, priest, of Ust-Labinskaya (1918)
New Hieromartyrs Joseph Smirnov, Protopresbyter, and Vladimir Ilinsky,
Priest (1918)
New Hieromartyrs John Kastorsky, Deacon, and John Perebaskin,
of Kostroma-Galich (1918)
New Martyr Blessed Theoktista Mikhailovna, Fool-for-Christ, of Voronezh (1936)
New Hieromartyrs Michael Gorbunov, John Orlov, Victor Morigerovsky,
Parushnikov, Sergius Belokurov, Andrew Yasenev, and Paul Smirnov,
Priests (1938)
New Hieromartyrs Sergius Bukashkin and Antipas Kirillov (1938)
Virgin-martyrs Elizabeth Timokhin, Irene Smirnov, and Barbara Losev (1938)
Virgin-martyr Parasceva Makarov (1938)
Martyrs Stephen Frantov and Nicholas Nekrasov (1938)
Martyrs Leonid Salkov and Peter Antonov, of Alma-Ata (1938)
Martyr Andrew Gnevishev of Tver (1941)
New Hieromartyr Philaret Pryakin (1942)
Other commemorations
Uncovering of the relics (607-610) of the Holy Apostles Andronicus and Junia
(1st c.) and the Holy Martyrs, at the Gate of Eugenius at Constantinople
Repose of Righteous Gregory (“Golden Grits”) Miroshnikov of Sednev (1855)
Repose of Schemanun Avramia of Kashin (1855)
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