- 1010 – Ferdowsi completes his epic poem Shahnameh.[1]
- 1126 – Following the death of his mother, queen Urraca of León, Alfonso VII is proclaimed king of León.[2]
- 1262 – Battle of Hausbergen between bourgeois militias and the army of the bishop of Strasbourg.[3]
- 1658 – Treaty of Roskilde: After a devastating defeat in the Northern Wars (1655–1661), Frederick III, the King of Denmark–Norway is forced to give up nearly half his territory to Sweden.[4]
- 1702 – Queen Anne, the younger sister of Mary II, becomes Queen regnant of England, Scotland, and Ireland.[5]
- 1722 – The Safavid Empire of Iran is defeated by an army from Afghanistan at the Battle of Gulnabad.[6]
- 1736 – Nader Shah, founder of the Afsharid dynasty, is crowned Shah of Iran.[7]
- 1775 – An anonymous writer, thought by some to be Thomas Paine, publishes “African Slavery in America”, the first article in the American colonies calling for the emancipation of slaves and the abolition of slavery.[8]
- 1782 – Gnadenhutten massacre: Ninety-six Native Americans in Gnadenhutten, Ohio, who had converted to Christianity, are killed by Pennsylvania militiamen in retaliation for raids carried out by other Indian tribes.[9]
- 1801 – War of the Second Coalition: At the Battle of Abukir, a British force under Sir Ralph Abercromby lands in Egypt with the aim of ending the French campaign in Egypt and Syria.[10]
- 1817 – The New York Stock Exchange is founded.[11]
- 1844 – King Oscar I ascends to the thrones of Sweden and Norway.[12]
- 1868 – Sakai incident: Japanese samurai kill 11 French sailors in the port of Sakai, Osaka.[13]
- 1910 – French aviator Raymonde de Laroche becomes the first woman to receive a pilot’s license.[14]
- 1916 – World War I: A British force unsuccessfully attempts to relieve the siege of Kut (present-day Iraq) in the Battle of Dujaila.[15]
- 1917 – International Women’s Day protests in Petrograd mark the beginning of the February Revolution (February 23 in the Julian calendar).[16]
- 1917 – The United States Senate votes to limit filibusters by adopting the cloture rule.[17]
- 1921 – Spanish Prime Minister Eduardo Dato Iradier is assassinated while on his way home from the parliament building in Madrid.[18]
- 1924 – A mine disaster kills 172 coal miners near Castle Gate, Utah.[19]
- 1936 – Daytona Beach and Road Course holds its first oval stock car race.[20]
- 1937 – Spanish Civil War: The Battle of Guadalajara begins.[21]
- 1942 – World War II: The Dutch East Indies surrender Java to the Imperial Japanese Army[22]
- 1942 – World War II: Imperial Japanese Army forces captured Rangoon, Burma from British.[23]
- 1963 – The Ba’ath Party comes to power in Syria in a coup d’état[24]
- 1966 – Nelson’s Pillar in Dublin, Ireland, destroyed by a bomb.[25]
- 1971 – The Fight of the Century between Joe Frazier and Muhammad Ali commences. Frazier wins in 15 rounds.[26]
- 1979 – Philips demonstrates the compact disc publicly for the first time.[27]
- 1983 – Cold War: While addressing a convention of Evangelicals, U.S. President Ronald Reagan labels the Soviet Union an “evil empire“.[28]
- 1985 – A supposed failed assassination attempt on Islamic cleric Sayyed Mohammad Hussein Fadlallah in Beirut, Lebanon kills at least 56 and injures 180 others.[29]
- 2004 – A new constitution is signed by Iraq‘s Governing Council.[30]
- 2014 – In one of aviation’s greatest mysteries, Malaysia Airlines Flight 370, carrying a total of 239 people, disappears en route from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing.[31] The fate of the flight remains unknown.
- 2017 – The Azure Window, a natural arch on the Maltese island of Gozo, collapses in stormy weather.[32]
- 2018 – The first Aurat March (social/political demonstration) was held being International Women’s Day in Karachi, Pakistan, since then annually held across Pakistan and feminist slogan Mera Jism Meri Marzi (My body, my choice), in demand for women’s right to bodily autonomy and against gender-based violence came into vogue in Pakistan.[33][34][35]
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