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Events
211 – Roman Emperor Septimius Severus dies at Eboracum (modern York, England) while preparing to lead a campaign against the Caledonians. He leaves the empire in the control of his two quarrelling sons.
634 – Battle of Dathin: Rashidun forces under Yazid ibn Abi Sufyan defeat an outnumbered Byzantine force near Gaza in Palestine.
960 – The coronation of Zhao Kuangyin as Emperor Taizu of Song, initiating the Song dynasty period of China that would last more than three centuries.
1169 – A strong earthquake struck the Ionian coast of Sicily, causing tens of thousands of injuries and deaths, especially in Catania.
1454 – In the Thirteen Years' War, the Secret Council of the Prussian Confederation sends a formal act of disobedience to the Grand Master.
1555 – John Rogers was a clergyman, Bible translator and commentator, and the first English Protestant martyr under Mary I of England.
1703 – In Edo (now Tokyo), 46 of the Forty-seven Ronin commit seppuku (ritual suicide) as recompense for avenging their master's death.
1758 – Macapá, Brazil is founded.
1789 – George Washington is unanimously elected as the first President of the United States by the U.S. Electoral College.
1794 – The French legislature abolishes slavery throughout all territories of the French First Republic. It will be reestablished in the French West Indies in 1802.
1797 – The Riobamba earthquake strikes Ecuador, causing up to 40,000 casualties.
1801 – John Marshall is sworn in as Chief Justice of the United States.
1810 – The Royal Navy seizes Guadeloupe.
1820 – The Chilean Navy under the command of Lord Cochrane completes the 2-day long Capture of Valdivia with just 300 men and 2 ships.
1825 – The Ohio Legislature authorizes the construction of the Ohio and Erie Canal and the Miami and Erie Canal.
1846 – The first Mormon pioneers make their exodus from Nauvoo, Illinois, westward towards Salt Lake Valley.
1847 – The first U.S. telegraph company was established in Maryland.
1859 – The Codex Sinaiticus is discovered in Egypt.
1861 – American Civil War: In Montgomery, Alabama, delegates from six break-away U.S. states meet and form the Confederate States of America.
1899 – The Philippine–American War begins with the Battle of Manila, after rising tensions due to the US annexation of the Philippines in 1898.
1932 – Second Sino-Japanese War: Harbin, Manchuria, falls to Japan.
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1936 – Radium becomes the first radioactive element to be made synthetically.
1938 – Thornton Wilder’s "Our Town" opened on Broadway.
1941 – The United Service Organization (USO) is created to entertain American troops.
1945 – World War II: Santo Tomas Internment Camp is liberated from Japanese authority.
1945 – World War II: The Yalta Conference between the "Big Three" (Churchill, Roosevelt, and Stalin) opens at the Livadia Palace in the Crimea.
1945 – World War II: The British Indian Army and Imperial Japanese Army begin a series of battles known as the Battle of Pokoku and Irrawaddy River operations.
1948 – Ceylon (later renamed Sri Lanka) becomes independent within the British Commonwealth.
1957 – Nautilus logged her 60,000th nautical mile to bring to reality the achievements of her fictitious namesake in the Jules Verne book, "20,000 Leagues Under the Sea."
1961 – Angolan War of Independence begins.
1966 – All Nippon Airways Flight 60 plunges into Tokyo Bay, killing 133.
1967 – Lunar Orbiter program: Lunar Orbiter 3 lifts off from Cape Canaveral's Launch Complex 13 on its mission to identify possible landing sites for the Surveyor and Apollo spacecraft.
1974 – The Symbionese Liberation Army kidnaps Patty Hearst in Berkeley, California.
1974 – M62 coach bombing: The Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) explodes a bomb on a bus carrying off-duty British Armed Forces personnel in Yorkshire, England. Nine soldiers and three civilians are killed.
1975 – Haicheng earthquake (magnitude 7.3 on the Richter scale) occurs in Haicheng, Liaoning, China.
1976 – In Guatemala and Honduras an earthquake kills more than 22,000.
1977 – A Chicago Transit Authority elevated train rear-ends another and derails, killing 11 and injuring 180, the worst accident in the agency's history.
1980 – Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini names Abolhassan Banisadr as president of Iran.
1992 – A coup d'état is led by Hugo Chávez against Venezuelan President Carlos Andrés Pérez.
1996 – Major snowstorm paralyzes Midwestern United States, Milwaukee, Wisconsin and ties all-time record low temperature at −26 °F (−32.2 °C)
1997 – En route to Lebanon, two Israeli Sikorsky CH-53 troop-transport helicopters collide in mid-air over northern Galilee, Israel killing 73.
1997 – After at first contesting the results, Serbian President Slobodan Milošević recognizes opposition victories in the November 1996 elections.
1998 – An earthquake measuring 6.1 on the Richter Scale in northeast Afghanistan kills more than 5,000.
1999 – Unarmed West African immigrant Amadou Diallo is shot dead by four plainclothes New York City police officers on an unrelated stake-out, inflaming race relations in the city.
2003 – The Bengali Hindus declare the independence of the Republic of Bangabhumi from Bangladesh.
2003 – The Federal Republic of Yugoslavia is officially renamed Serbia and Montenegro and adopts a new constitution.
2004 – Facebook, a mainstream online social networking site, is founded by Harvard students Mark Zuckerberg, Eduardo Saverin, Dustin Moskovitz, Andrew McCollum, and Chris Hughes.
2006 – A stampede occurs in the PhilSports Arena near Manila, killing 71 people.
2015 – A TransAsia Airways aircraft with 58 people on board, en route from the Taiwanese capital Taipei to Kinmen, crashes into the Keelung River just after take-off, killing at least 31 people.
Saints' Days and Holy Days
Earliest day on which Ash Wednesday, the first day of Lent, can fall, while March 10 is the latest.
Traditional Western
Andrew Corsini, Bishop of Fiesole, Confessor. Double.
Contemporary Western
Andrew Corsini
Gilbert of Sempringham
John de Brito
Rimbert
Veronica
Anglican, Episcopal, Lutheran
Eastern Orthodox
February 4 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
Feasts
Afterfeast of the Meeting of our Lord in the Temple
Saints
Martyrs Jadorus and Isidore, who suffered under Decius (3rd c.)
Hieromartyr Phileas, Bishop of Thmuis, and Martyr Philoromus
the Magistrate (c. 303)
Martyr Theoctistus, by the sword
Venerable John of Irenopolis, Bishop of Irenopolis, Cilicia
and one of the 318 fathers of Nicaea (c. 325)
Hieromartyr Abramius of Arbela, Bishop of Arbela in Assyria (c. 344-347)
Venerable Isidore of Pelusium (c. 436-440)
Saint Evagrius, fellow-ascetic of St. Shio of Mgvime, Georgia (6th c.)
Venerable Nicetas of Pythiae (modern Kouri) (pre-iconoclasm)
Venerable Iasimos the Wonderworker (Jasim), monk and healer
Venerable Nicholas the Confessor, Abbot, of the Studion Monastery (868)
Pre-Schism Western Saints
Martyrs Aquilinus, Geminus, Gelasius, Magnus and Donatus, martyrs in 'Forum
Sempronii', which has been interpreted as Fossombrone in central Italy (3rd c.)
Martyr Eutychius, in Rome under Diocletian (4th century)
Saint Aventinus of Chartres, Bishop of Chartres (c. 520)
Saint Aventinus of Troyes, an almoner to St Lupus, Bishop of Troyes,
then became a hermit at Saint-Aventin (c. 538)
Saint Vincent of Troyes, Bishop of Troyes (c. 546)
Hieromartyr Aldate of Gloucester (6th c.)
Saint Modan, Abbot of Stirling and Falkirk (6th c.)
Saint Liephard, a bishop and companion of King Cædwalla of Wessex during
the latter's pilgrimage to Rome, martyred near Cambrai in France (690)
Saint Vulgis, Bishop and Abbot of Lobbes Abbey in Belgium (c. 760)
Saint Nithard, a monk at Corbie Abbey in Saxony in Germany and a companion
of St Ansgar, whom he followed to Sweden as a missionary, martyred there
by pagan Swedes (845)
Saint Rembert, Bishop of Hamburg-Bremen (865)
Post-Schism Orthodox Saints
Right-Believing George of Vladimir, Great Prince of Vladimir (1238)
Venerable Abraham and Coprius, founders of Pechenga Monastery in Vologda (15th c.)
Venerable Cyril, Abbot and Wonderworker of New Lake Monastery (Novoezersk)
in Novgorod (1532)
New Martyr Joseph of Aleppo in Syria (1686)
New Martyrs and Confessors
New Hieromartyr Methodius (Krasnoperov), Bishop of Petropavlovsk (1921)
New Hieromartyrs (1938):
Theodosius (Bobkov), Hieromonk of the Chudov Monastery, Moscow
Nicholas Kandaurov, Archpriest, Moscow
Boris Nazarov, Archpriest, of Protasievo, Verey
Alexander Pokrovsky, Archpriest, of Mineyevo, Moscow
Alexander Sokolov, Archpriest, of Paveltsovo, Moscow
Peter Sokolov, Archpriest, of Klin, Moscow
John Tikhomirov, Archpriest, of Petrovskoye, Moscow
John Artobolevsky, Archpriest, Moscow
John Aleshkovsky, priest
Alexander Minervin, priest
Alexis Sharov, priest
Eustace Sokolsky, priest
Sergius Soloviev, priest
Nicholas Pospelov, priest, of Bylovo, Podolsk
New Martyr Raphaela, Schemanun, of Moscow (1938)
Virgin-martyrs Anna and Catherine (1938)
Martyrs Seraphim, John, Basil, Demetrius, Theodore, and Demetrius (1938)
Other commemorations
Repose of the royal recluse Nun Dosithea of Moscow (1810)Earliest day on which Ash Wednesday, the first day of Lent, can fall, while March 10 is the latest.
Traditional Western
Andrew Corsini, Bishop of Fiesole, Confessor. Double.
Contemporary Western
Andrew Corsini
Gilbert of Sempringham
John de Brito
Rimbert
Veronica
Anglican, Episcopal, Lutheran
Eastern Orthodox
February 4 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
Feasts
Afterfeast of the Meeting of our Lord in the Temple
Saints
Martyrs Jadorus and Isidore, who suffered under Decius (3rd c.)
Hieromartyr Phileas, Bishop of Thmuis, and Martyr Philoromus
the Magistrate (c. 303)
Martyr Theoctistus, by the sword
Venerable John of Irenopolis, Bishop of Irenopolis, Cilicia
and one of the 318 fathers of Nicaea (c. 325)
Hieromartyr Abramius of Arbela, Bishop of Arbela in Assyria (c. 344-347)
Venerable Isidore of Pelusium (c. 436-440)
Saint Evagrius, fellow-ascetic of St. Shio of Mgvime, Georgia (6th c.)
Venerable Nicetas of Pythiae (modern Kouri) (pre-iconoclasm)
Venerable Iasimos the Wonderworker (Jasim), monk and healer
Venerable Nicholas the Confessor, Abbot, of the Studion Monastery (868)
Pre-Schism Western Saints
Martyrs Aquilinus, Geminus, Gelasius, Magnus and Donatus, martyrs in 'Forum
Sempronii', which has been interpreted as Fossombrone in central Italy (3rd c.)
Martyr Eutychius, in Rome under Diocletian (4th century)
Saint Aventinus of Chartres, Bishop of Chartres (c. 520)
Saint Aventinus of Troyes, an almoner to St Lupus, Bishop of Troyes,
then became a hermit at Saint-Aventin (c. 538)
Saint Vincent of Troyes, Bishop of Troyes (c. 546)
Hieromartyr Aldate of Gloucester (6th c.)
Saint Modan, Abbot of Stirling and Falkirk (6th c.)
Saint Liephard, a bishop and companion of King Cædwalla of Wessex during
the latter's pilgrimage to Rome, martyred near Cambrai in France (690)
Saint Vulgis, Bishop and Abbot of Lobbes Abbey in Belgium (c. 760)
Saint Nithard, a monk at Corbie Abbey in Saxony in Germany and a companion
of St Ansgar, whom he followed to Sweden as a missionary, martyred there
by pagan Swedes (845)
Saint Rembert, Bishop of Hamburg-Bremen (865)
Post-Schism Orthodox Saints
Right-Believing George of Vladimir, Great Prince of Vladimir (1238)
Venerable Abraham and Coprius, founders of Pechenga Monastery in Vologda (15th c.)
Venerable Cyril, Abbot and Wonderworker of New Lake Monastery (Novoezersk)
in Novgorod (1532)
New Martyr Joseph of Aleppo in Syria (1686)
New Martyrs and Confessors
New Hieromartyr Methodius (Krasnoperov), Bishop of Petropavlovsk (1921)
New Hieromartyrs (1938):
Theodosius (Bobkov), Hieromonk of the Chudov Monastery, Moscow
Nicholas Kandaurov, Archpriest, Moscow
Boris Nazarov, Archpriest, of Protasievo, Verey
Alexander Pokrovsky, Archpriest, of Mineyevo, Moscow
Alexander Sokolov, Archpriest, of Paveltsovo, Moscow
Peter Sokolov, Archpriest, of Klin, Moscow
John Tikhomirov, Archpriest, of Petrovskoye, Moscow
John Artobolevsky, Archpriest, Moscow
John Aleshkovsky, priest
Alexander Minervin, priest
Alexis Sharov, priest
Eustace Sokolsky, priest
Sergius Soloviev, priest
Nicholas Pospelov, priest, of Bylovo, Podolsk
New Martyr Raphaela, Schemanun, of Moscow (1938)
Virgin-martyrs Anna and Catherine (1938)
Martyrs Seraphim, John, Basil, Demetrius, Theodore, and Demetrius (1938)
Other commemorations
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