February 28 - Some important events on this day 202 BC 👉🏼 Coronation ceremony of Liu Bang as Emperor Gaozu...
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Every full moon has at least one nickname, dating back to the days when Native American tribes and Colonial Americans...
February 27 - Some important events on this day 1693 👉🏼 1st women's magazine "Ladies' Mercury" published in London, England...
February 26 - Some important events on this day 1616 👉🏼 Roman Inquisition delivers injunction to Galileo demanding he abandon...
February 25 - Some important events on this day 1570 👉🏼 Pius V excommunicates Queen Elizabeth I of England for...
February 24 - Some important events on this day 303 👉🏼 1st official Roman edict for persecution of Christians issued...
February 23 - Some important events on this day 303 👉🏼 Roman Emperor Diocletian begins his policy of persecuting Christians,...
The Caristia, also called Cara Cognatio, was one of several days in February that Ancient Romans honored family or ancestors....
February 22 - Some important events on this day 1632 👉🏼 Galileo's "Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems" is...
February 21 - Some important events on this day 1173 👉🏼 Pope Alexander III canonizes Thomas Becket, Archbishop of Canterbury...
February 20 - Some important events on this day 1280 👉🏼 Japanese Imperial Court orders all temples and shrines to...
February 19 - Some important events on this day 356 👉🏼 Emperor Constantius II shuts all heathen temples 1594 👉🏼...
February 18 - Some important events on this day 1519 👉🏼 Hernán Cortés leaves Cuba for the Yucatan Peninsula, Mexico...
In Norse mythology, Freyja is a goddess associated with love, beauty, fertility, sex, war, gold, and seiðr, a type of...
February 17 - Some important events on this day 1510 👉🏼 Portuguese admiral Afonso de Albuquerque first conquers the city...
February 16 - Some important events on this day 374 👉🏼 9th recorded perihelion passage of Halley's Comet 600 👉🏼...
Lupercalia was one of the most ancient of the Roman holidays, one of the feriae listed on ancient calendars from...
February 15 - Some important events on this day 399 BC 👉🏼 Philosopher Socrates is sentenced to death by the...
In the Victorian era, and also into the 20th century, lovers exchanged elaborate lace-trimmed cards on Valentine’s Day, expressing their...
February 14 - Some important events on this day 270 👉🏼 One of many St. Valentine beheaded. 1014 👉🏼 Pope...
The Romans held their dead in great respect. They were "di manes", the "good" dead, or honoured ancestors never to...
February 13 - Some important events on this day 1258 👉🏼 Baghdad, then a city of 1 million, falls to...
February 12 - Some important events on this day 1700 👉🏼 The Great Northern War begins in Northern Europe between...
February 11 - Some important events on this day 55 👉🏼 Tiberius Claudius Caesar Britannicus, heir to the Roman Emperorship,...
February 10 - Some important events on this day 60 👉🏼 St Paul thought to have been shipwrecked at Malta...
February 9 - Some important events on this day 474 👉🏼 Zeno crowned as co-emperor of the Byzantine Empire together...
February 8 - Some important events on this day 1587 👉🏼 Mary, Queen of Scots, is beheaded at Fotheringhay Castle...
February 7 - Some important events on this day 1238 👉🏼 The Mongols burn the Russian city of Vladimir 1301...
February 6 - Some important events on this day 1508 👉🏼 Maximilian I proclaimed Holy Roman Emperor, 1st Emperor in...
February 5 - Some important events on this day 146 BCE 👉🏼 Punic Wars, between Rome and Carthage, come to...