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Lina Cavalieri, Italian soprano and actress (born 1874)
Lina Cavalieri| Year | Name / Event | Description |
|---|---|---|
| 457 | Leo I (emperor) | Leo I becomes the Eastern Roman emperor. |
| 987 | Bardas Phokas the Younger | Bardas Phokas the Younger and Bardas Skleros, Byzantine generals of the military elite, begin a wide-scale rebellion against Emperor Basil II. |
| 1301 | Caernarfon | Edward of Caernarvon (later King Edward II of England) becomes the first English Prince of Wales. |
| 1313 | Thihathu | King Thihathu founds the Pinya Kingdom as the de jure successor state of the Pagan Kingdom. |
| 1365 | House of Mecklenburg | Albert III of Mecklenburg (King Albert of Sweden) grants city rights to Ulvila (Swedish: Ulvsby). |
| 1497 | Florence | In Florence, Italy, supporters of Girolamo Savonarola burn cosmetics, art, and books, in a "Bonfire of the vanities". |
| 1756 | Guaraní War | Guaraní War: The leader of the Guaraní rebels, Sepé Tiaraju, is killed in a skirmish with Spanish and Portuguese troops. |
| 1783 | American Revolutionary War | American Revolutionary War: French and Spanish forces lift the Great Siege of Gibraltar. |
| 1795 | Eleventh Amendment to the United States Constitution | The 11th Amendment to the United States Constitution is ratified. |
| 1807 | Napoleonic Wars | Napoleonic Wars: Napoleon finds Bennigsen's Russian forces taking a stand at Eylau. After bitter fighting, the French take the town, but the Russians resume the battle the next day. |
| 1812 | 1811–1812 New Madrid earthquakes | The strongest in a series of earthquakes strikes New Madrid, Missouri. |
| 1813 | Action of 7 February 1813 | In the action of 7 February 1813 near the Îles de Los, the frigates Aréthuse and Amelia batter each other, but neither can gain the upper hand. |
| 1819 | Stamford Raffles | Sir Thomas Stamford Raffles leaves Singapore after just taking it over, leaving it in the hands of William Farquhar. |
| 1842 | Battle of Debre Tabor | Battle of Debre Tabor: Ras Ali Alula, Regent of the Emperor of Ethiopia defeats warlord Wube Haile Maryam of Semien. |
| 1854 | ETH Zurich | A law is approved to found the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology. Lectures started October 16, 1855. |
| 1863 | HMS Orpheus (1860) | HMS Orpheus sinks off the coast of Auckland, New Zealand, killing 189. |
| 1894 | Cripple Creek miners' strike of 1894 | The Cripple Creek miner's strike, led by the Western Federation of Miners, begins in Cripple Creek, Colorado, United States. |
| 1898 | Dreyfus affair | Dreyfus affair: Émile Zola is brought to trial for libel for publishing J'Accuse...! |
| 1900 | Second Boer War | Second Boer War: British troops fail in their third attempt to lift the Siege of Ladysmith. |
| 1900 | Bubonic plague | A Chinese immigrant in San Francisco falls ill to bubonic plague in the first plague epidemic in the continental United States. |
| 1904 | Great Baltimore Fire | The Great Baltimore Fire begins in Baltimore, Maryland; it destroys over 1,500 buildings in 30 hours. |
| 1940 | Walt Disney | The second full-length animated Walt Disney film, Pinocchio, premieres. |
| 1943 | World War II | World War II: Imperial Japanese Navy forces complete the evacuation of Imperial Japanese Army troops from Guadalcanal during Operation Ke, ending Japanese attempts to retake the island from Allied forces in the Guadalcanal Campaign. |
| 1944 | Anzio | World War II: In Anzio, Italy, German forces launch a counteroffensive during the Allied Operation Shingle. |
| 1951 | Korean War | Korean War: More than 700 suspected communist sympathizers are massacred by South Korean forces. |
| 1962 | United States embargo against Cuba | The United States bans all Cuban imports and exports. |
| 1964 | The Beatles | The Beatles land in the United States for the first time, at the newly renamed John F. Kennedy International Airport. |
| 1966 | 1966 Iloilo City fire | The Great Fire of Iloilo breaks out in a lumber yard in Iznart Street and burns for almost half a day destroying nearly three-quarters of the City Proper area and Php 50 million pesos in total properties' damage. |
| 1974 | Grenada | Grenada gains independence from the United Kingdom. |
| 1979 | Pluto | Pluto moves inside Neptune's orbit for the first time since either was discovered. |
| 1981 | 1981 Pushkin Tu-104 crash | A plane crash at Pushkin Airport kills 50 people, including 16 members of the Pacific Fleet. |
| 1984 | Space Shuttle program | Space Shuttle program: STS-41-B Mission: astronauts Bruce McCandless II and Robert L. Stewart make the first untethered space walk using the Manned Maneuvering Unit (MMU). |
| 1986 | Haiti | Twenty-eight years of one-family rule end in Haiti, when President Jean-Claude Duvalier flees the Caribbean nation. |
| 1990 | Dissolution of the Soviet Union | Dissolution of the Soviet Union: The Central Committee of the Soviet Communist Party agrees to give up its monopoly on power. |
| 1991 | Haiti | Haiti's first democratically elected president, Jean-Bertrand Aristide, is sworn in. |
| 1991 | The Troubles | The Troubles: The Provisional IRA launches a mortar attack on 10 Downing Street in London, the headquarters of the British government. |
| 1992 | Maastricht Treaty | The Maastricht Treaty is signed, leading to the creation of the European Union. |
| 1995 | Ramzi Yousef | Ramzi Yousef, the mastermind of the 1993 World Trade Center bombing, is arrested in Islamabad, Pakistan. |
| 1999 | Abdullah II of Jordan | Crown Prince Abdullah becomes the King of Jordan on the death of his father, King Hussein. |
| 2001 | Space Shuttle Atlantis | Space Shuttle program: Space Shuttle Atlantis is launched on mission STS-98, carrying the Destiny laboratory module to the International Space Station. |
| 2009 | Black Saturday bushfires | Bushfires in Victoria leave 173 dead in the worst natural disaster in Australia's history. |
| 2012 | Mohamed Nasheed | President Mohamed Nasheed of the Republic of Maldives resigns, after 23 days of anti-governmental protests calling for the release of the Chief Judge unlawfully arrested by the military. |
| 2013 | Mississippi | The U.S. state of Mississippi officially certifies the Thirteenth Amendment, becoming the last state to approve the abolition of slavery. The Thirteenth Amendment was formally ratified by Mississippi in 1995. |
| 2014 | Happisburgh footprints | Scientists announce that the Happisburgh footprints in Norfolk, England, date back to more than 800,000 years ago, making them the oldest known hominid footprints outside Africa. |
| 2016 | Kwangmyŏngsŏng-4 | North Korea launches Kwangmyŏngsŏng-4 into outer space violating multiple UN treaties and prompting condemnation from around the world. |
| 2021 | 2021 Uttarakhand flood | The 2021 Uttarakhand flood begins. |
| 2024 | 2024 Balochistan bombings | Pakistan election offices are hit by twin bombings, killing at least 24 people a day before general elections. |
