3rd February 1930

The Communist Party of Vietnam is established.

4th February 1959

Israel begins exporting copper ore

5th February 1861

1st moving picture peep show machine is patented by Samuel Good ale.

6th February 1911

President Ronald Reagan was born.  

 7th February 1901

The son of King Edward I of England becomes the first English Prince of Wales

8th February 1887

The Dawes Act authorized the President of the United States to survey Native American tribal land and divides it into individual allotments.

9th February 2001

The American submarine USS Greeneville accidentally strikes and sinks the Ehime-Maru, a Japanese training vessel operated by the Uwajima Fishery High School.

10th February 1947

Netherlands Radio Union forms

11th February 2012

Israel Air Force conducts four air strikes in Gaza Strip   

12th February 1554

At the tender age of 16, the “nine days queen”, Lady Jane Grey is beheaded at the tower of London.

13th February 1688

A “Glorious Revolution” brings the Protestant William of Orange and his wife Mary (daughter of James II) to the throne of England after the Catholic King James II flees to France.

14th February 1933

Students at Oxford University, obviously bored fighting the local townspeople, declare that they would not fight for “King and Country”.

15thFebruary 1971

Pennies, bobs and half-crowns all disappear as Britain goes decimal

16th February 1659

A cheque is used for the first time in Britain as Mr. Nicholas Vanacker settles a debt.

17th  February 1461

Lancastrian forces defeated the Yorkists at the Battle of St. Albans.

18th February 1478

George Plantagenet, Duke of Clarence died in the Tower of London said to have been drowned in a butt of his favourite malmsey wine.

19th February 1897

The Women’s Institute is founded in Ontario, Canada, by Mrs Adelaide Hoodless.

20th  February 1938

Anthony Eden resigned as British foreign secretary after Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain decided to negotiate with Italian Fascist leader Benito Mussolini.

21 st February 1804

British engineer Richard Trevithick demonstrated the first steam engine to run on rails.

22nd  February 1790

Over 1,000 French troops attempted to invade Britain, landing on the Welsh coast. The brave ladies of Fish guard saved the day!

23rd  February 1863

Lake Victoria, in Africa, was declared to be the source of the River Nile by British explorers John Speke and J A Grant.

24th February 1917

President Woodrow Wilson informs the US nation of the contents of an intercepted message from the German foreign minister offering Mexico an alliance against the US.

25th February 1570

England’s Queen Elizabeth I is excommunicated by Pope Pius V.

26th February 1791

The Bank of England issues the first ever one pound note, in part a result of the panic in London caused by the French invasion.

27th February 1782

The British Parliament votes to abandon the American War of Independence.

28th February 1900

The four-month siege of the British garrison at Ladysmith in Natal, South Africa, ended as a relief force broke through the Boers at Spion Kop.