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Events
1649 – The claimant King Charles II of England and Scotland is declared King of Great Britain, by the Parliament of Scotland. This move was not followed by the Parliament of England nor the Parliament of Ireland.
1685 – James II of England and VII of Scotland becomes King upon the death of his brother Charles II.
1778 – American Revolutionary War: In Paris the Treaty of Alliance and the Treaty of Amity and Commerce are signed by the United States and France signaling official recognition of the new republic.
1788 – Massachusetts becomes the sixth state to ratify the United States Constitution.
1806 – Battle of San Domingo: British naval victory against the French in the Caribbean.
1815 – New Jersey grants the first American railroad charter to John Stevens.
1819 – Sir Thomas Stamford Raffles founds Singapore.
1820 – The first 86 African American immigrants sponsored by the American Colonization Society depart New York to start a settlement in present-day Liberia.
1833 – Otto becomes the first modern King of Greece.
1840 – Signing of the Treaty of Waitangi, establishing New Zealand as a British colony.
1843 – The first minstrel show in the United States, The Virginia Minstrels, opens (Bowery Amphitheatre in New York City).
1851 – The largest Australian bushfires in a populous region in recorded history take place in the state of Victoria.
1862 – American Civil War: Battle of Fort Henry: Forces under the command of Ulysses S. Grant and Andrew H. Foote give the Union its first victory of the war, capturing Fort Henry, Tennessee.
1899 – Spanish–American War: The Treaty of Paris, a peace treaty between the United States and Spain, is ratified by the United States Senate.
1900 – The Permanent Court of Arbitration, an international arbitration court at The Hague, is created when the Senate of the Netherlands ratifies an 1899 peace conference decree.
1914 – The Bondetåget, a peasant uprising in support of the monarchy, takes place in Sweden.
1918 – British women over the age of 30 get the right to vote.
1919 – The five-day Seattle General Strike begins.
1922 – The Washington Naval Treaty is signed in Washington, D.C., limiting the naval armaments of United States, Britain, Japan, France, and Italy.
1934 – Far-right leagues rally in front of the Palais Bourbon in an attempted coup against the French Third Republic, creating a political crisis in France.
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1942 – World War II: The United Kingdom declares war on Thailand.
1951 – The Canadian Army enters combat in the Korean War.
1951 – The Broker, a Pennsylvania Railroad passenger train, derails near Woodbridge Township, New Jersey. The accident kills 85 people and injures over 500 more. The wreck is one of the worst rail disasters in American history.
1952 – Elizabeth II becomes queen regnant of the United Kingdom and the other Commonwealth realms upon the death of her father, George VI. At the exact moment of succession, she was in a tree house at the Treetops Hotel in Kenya.
1958 – Eight Manchester United F.C. players and 15 other passengers are killed in the Munich air disaster.
1959 – Jack Kilby of Texas Instruments files the first patent for an integrated circuit.
1959 – At Cape Canaveral, Florida, the first successful test firing of a Titan intercontinental ballistic missile is accomplished.
1973: Dixy Lee Ray is appointed by President Richard Nixon to be the first woman to head the Atomic Energy Commission.
1975 – A crucial by-election is held in Kankesanthurai, Sri Lanka.
1976 – In testimony before a United States Senate subcommittee, Lockheed Corporation president Carl Kotchian admits that the company had paid out approximately $3 million in bribes to the office of Japanese Prime Minister Kakuei Tanaka.
1978 – The Blizzard of 1978, one of the worst Nor'easters in New England history, hit the region, with sustained winds of 65 mph and snowfall of four inches an hour.
1981 – The National Resistance Army of Uganda launches an attack on a Ugandan Army installation in the central Mubende District to begin the Ugandan Bush War.
1987 – Justice Mary Gaudron is appointed to the High Court of Australia, the first woman to be appointed.
1988 – Michael Jordan makes his signature slam dunk from the free throw line inspiring Air Jordan and the Jumpman logo.
1989 – The Round Table Talks start in Poland, thus marking the beginning of overthrow of communism in Eastern Europe.
1996 – Willamette Valley Flood of 1996: Floods in the Willamette Valley of Oregon, United States, causes over US$500 million in property damage throughout the Pacific Northwest.
1996 – Birgenair Flight 301 crashed off the coast of the Dominican Republic, and all 189 people inside the airplane are killed. This is the worst accident/incident involving a Boeing 757.
1998 – Washington National Airport is renamed Ronald Reagan National Airport.
2000 – Second Chechen War: Russia captures Grozny, Chechnya, forcing the separatist Chechen Republic of Ichkeria government into exile.
2012 – A 6.9 magnitude earthquake hits near the central Philippines off the coast of Negros Island causing at least 51 deaths and injuring 112 others.
2013 – A 8.0 magnitude earthquake hits the Solomon Islands killing 10 people and injuring 17 others.
Saints' Days and Holy Days
Traditional Western
Titus, Archbishop of Gortyna in Crete, Confessor. Double.
Commemoration of St. Dorothy, Virgin and Martyr.
Contemporary Western
Amand
Dorothea of Caesarea
Mateo Correa Magallanes (one of Saints of the Cristero War)
Paul Miki and Twenty-six Martyrs of Japan
Titus
Vedastus
Anglican, Episcopal, Lutheran
Eastern Orthodox
February 6 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
Feasts
Apodosis of the Meeting of Our Lord
Saints
Venerable Bukolus, Bishop of Smyrna (c. 100)
Martyrs Theophilus, Saturninus and Revocatus, in Spain (249-251)
Virgin-martyr Dorothea, and with her Martyrs Christina and Callista, sisters,
and Theophilus, at Caesarea in Cappadocia (288-300)
Virgin-martyr Fausta, and with her Martyrs Evilasius and Maximus, at Cyzicus
(305-311)
Martyr Julian of Emesa the Physician, and Bishop Silvanus (312)
Martyrs Faustus, Basil and Lucianus, of Darion in Constantinople, by the sword
Venerable John of Lycopolis (John of Thebes), monk (4th c.)
Saint James, ascetic, of Syria (c. 460)
Saints Barsanuphius the Great and John the Prophet, monks of Gaza (6th c.)
Saint Photius the Great, Patriarch of Constantinople, Confessor
and Equal-to-the-Apostles (891)
Virgin-martyrs Martha and Mary and their brother Lycarion, at Tanis
(Hermopolis) in Egypt
Pre-Schism Western Saints
Saint Antholian (Anatolianus), mentioned by St Gregory of Tours as one of
the martyrs of Auvergne in France under Valerian and Gallienus (c. 265)
Saint Mél of Ardagh (Mael), Bishop of Ardagh (488), disciple of St. Patrick
Saint Mun, a nephew of St Patrick who consecrated him bishop (5th c.)
Saint Vedast, Bishop of Arras (540)
Saint Amandus of Elnone Abbey, Apostle of Maastricht (675)
Saint Andrew of Elnone Abbey, a monk and disciple of St Amandus at Elnone
in France, whom he succeeded as Abbot (c. 690)
Saint Relindis of Maaseik (Renildis, Renula, Renule), Abbess of Maaseik
in Belgium (c. 750)
Saint Tanco of Werden (Tancho, Tatta), Abbot of Amalbarich Abbey in Saxony
and eventually Bishop of Werden in Germany, martyred by pagans (808)
Post-Schism Orthodox Saints
Saint Arsenius of Iqalto, Georgia (1127)
Hieromartyr Damaskinos (Tzagkaris) the Sinaite, martyred outside the walls
of the monastery by the Mezenites (1623)
Saint Dorothea, Schema-nun, of Kashin (1629)
Hieromartyr Artemios the Sinaite (1822)
New Martyrs and Confessors
New Hieromartyrs Demetrius, Priest, and Martyr Anatolius (1921)
New Hieromartyr Basil Nadezhnin, priest, of Moscow (1930)
New Hieromartyr Alexander, Priest (1938)
Other commemorations
Repose of Archbishop Theophan (Bystrov) of Poltava (1940)Traditional Western
Titus, Archbishop of Gortyna in Crete, Confessor. Double.
Commemoration of St. Dorothy, Virgin and Martyr.
Contemporary Western
Amand
Dorothea of Caesarea
Mateo Correa Magallanes (one of Saints of the Cristero War)
Paul Miki and Twenty-six Martyrs of Japan
Titus
Vedastus
Anglican, Episcopal, Lutheran
Eastern Orthodox
February 6 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
Feasts
Apodosis of the Meeting of Our Lord
Saints
Venerable Bukolus, Bishop of Smyrna (c. 100)
Martyrs Theophilus, Saturninus and Revocatus, in Spain (249-251)
Virgin-martyr Dorothea, and with her Martyrs Christina and Callista, sisters,
and Theophilus, at Caesarea in Cappadocia (288-300)
Virgin-martyr Fausta, and with her Martyrs Evilasius and Maximus, at Cyzicus
(305-311)
Martyr Julian of Emesa the Physician, and Bishop Silvanus (312)
Martyrs Faustus, Basil and Lucianus, of Darion in Constantinople, by the sword
Venerable John of Lycopolis (John of Thebes), monk (4th c.)
Saint James, ascetic, of Syria (c. 460)
Saints Barsanuphius the Great and John the Prophet, monks of Gaza (6th c.)
Saint Photius the Great, Patriarch of Constantinople, Confessor
and Equal-to-the-Apostles (891)
Virgin-martyrs Martha and Mary and their brother Lycarion, at Tanis
(Hermopolis) in Egypt
Pre-Schism Western Saints
Saint Antholian (Anatolianus), mentioned by St Gregory of Tours as one of
the martyrs of Auvergne in France under Valerian and Gallienus (c. 265)
Saint Mél of Ardagh (Mael), Bishop of Ardagh (488), disciple of St. Patrick
Saint Mun, a nephew of St Patrick who consecrated him bishop (5th c.)
Saint Vedast, Bishop of Arras (540)
Saint Amandus of Elnone Abbey, Apostle of Maastricht (675)
Saint Andrew of Elnone Abbey, a monk and disciple of St Amandus at Elnone
in France, whom he succeeded as Abbot (c. 690)
Saint Relindis of Maaseik (Renildis, Renula, Renule), Abbess of Maaseik
in Belgium (c. 750)
Saint Tanco of Werden (Tancho, Tatta), Abbot of Amalbarich Abbey in Saxony
and eventually Bishop of Werden in Germany, martyred by pagans (808)
Post-Schism Orthodox Saints
Saint Arsenius of Iqalto, Georgia (1127)
Hieromartyr Damaskinos (Tzagkaris) the Sinaite, martyred outside the walls
of the monastery by the Mezenites (1623)
Saint Dorothea, Schema-nun, of Kashin (1629)
Hieromartyr Artemios the Sinaite (1822)
New Martyrs and Confessors
New Hieromartyrs Demetrius, Priest, and Martyr Anatolius (1921)
New Hieromartyr Basil Nadezhnin, priest, of Moscow (1930)
New Hieromartyr Alexander, Priest (1938)
Other commemorations
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