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| 1871 | Abdication Napoleon III |  |
| Bordeaux Deposed by the National Assembly at Bordeaux
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| Chiselhurst Deposed by the National Assembly & retires to Chiselhurst in Kent
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| 1933 | Alliance Blomberg, Werner von | |
| Issues a directive to the Officer Corps openly supporting the NAZIs
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| 1941 | Alliance Hitler, Adolf | |
| Bulgaria joins the Tripartite Pact
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| 1587 | Arrest Wentworth, Peter | |
| London Imprisoned for advocating the right of Parliament to discuss matters of State
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| 1950 | Arrest Fuchs, Klaus | |
| Sentenced to serve 7 yrs in prison
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| 1881 | Articles of Confederarion Hayes, Rutherford Birchard | |
| All the USAstates ratify the Articles of Confederarion
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| 1896 | Battle of Adowa Menelik II | |
| Adowa Frustrates Italian attempts to make Ethiopia a protectorate
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| 1896 | Battle of Adowa Baratieri, Oreste | |
| Adowa With a force of 20,000 attacks but defeated by Emperor Menelek's force of 90,000
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| 1793 | Battle of Aldenhoven Charles of Austria | |
| Aldenhoven Wins distincton during the French invasion of the Austrian Netherlands
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| 1915 | Battle of Gallipoli Venizelos, Eleftherios | |
| Gallipoli Proposes Greek troops help the Allies
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| 1942 | Battle of Rzhev Model, Otto Moritz Walter | |
| Rzhev Russian forces are trapped & then destroyed
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| 1966 | Beatles, The Lennon, John Winston | |
| London London's 'Evening Standard' publishes an interview with John Lennon in which he states that the Beatles are "more popular than Jesus now", the comment provokes several protests, including the burning of Beatles records.
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| 1610 | Birth Pell, John | |
| Southwick Birth of John Pell
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| 1683 | Birth Caroline of Ansbach | |
| Ansbach Birth of Caroline of Ansbach, born at Ansbach in Germany, the daughter of Johann Friedrich, Margrave of Brandenburg-Ansbach and his second wife, Princess Eleanor Erdmuthe Louise of Saxe-Eisenach
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| 1944 | Birth Daltrey, Roger | |
| London Birth of Roger Daltrey, the same working class neighbourhood that produced fellow Who members Pete Townshend and John Entwistle
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| 1946 | Birth Jones, John Paul | |
| Birth of John Paul Jones
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| 1955 | Budget Churchill, Winston Leonard Spencer | |
| London Churchill's budget includes expenditure on the hydrogen bomb
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| 1172 | Canonization Becket, Thomas a | |
| Canterbury Canonized by Pope Alexander III
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| 1172 | Canonization Alexander III | |
| Vatican Canonizes Thomas Becket
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| 1845 | Capture Polk, James Knox | |
| Texas The USA captures Texas
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| 1917 | Chief of Staff Straussenberg | |
| Vienna Appointed Austro-Hungarian Chief-of-Staff
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| Vienna Appointed Chief-of-Staff
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| 1933 | Communist Party Hitler, Adolf | |
| As a consequence of the Reichstag Fire Decree, the Communist Party of Germany KPD is banned
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| The police & SA sieze all Communist Party buildings in Germany along with weapons claimed to be used for a Coup
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| 1952 | Constitution Nehru, Jawaharlal | |
| India's 1st general elections
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| 1971 | Constitution Khan, Yahya | |
| The Constituent Assembly is postponed, causes strikes in East Pakistan
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| 1985 | Constitution Sanguinetti, Julio Maria | |
| Montevideo Restores Constitutional Government
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| 1546 | Death Wishart, George | |
| London The Scottish Lutheran is burnt at the stake on the orders of Cardinal Beaton
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| 1933 | Decree Reichstag Fire Hitler, Adolf | |
| Berlin As a consequence of the Reichstag Fire Decree, the Communist Party of Germany KPD is banned
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| 1917 | Demonstrations Ivanov, Nikolai Iudovich | |
| Petrograd General Ivanov is ordered to abort his mission to suppress rebellion in Petrograd
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| 1917 | Demonstrations Nicholas II | |
| Petrograd General Ivanov is ordered to abort his mission to suppress the rebellion in Petrograd
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| 1911 | Devolution Britain Churchill, Winston Leonard Spencer | |
| Proposes Britain be divided into 10 with a local administration & elected assembly
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| 1982 | Diplomacy Ros, Ernesto | |
| Falklands, The British and Argentine deputy foreign ministers issue a joint communique praising the 'cordial and positive spirit' of sovereignty discussions held in New York
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| 1940 | Diplomacy Hitler, Adolf | |
| Bulgaria joins the Tripartite Pact
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| 1941 | Diplomacy Hitler, Adolf | |
| Bulgaria signs the Tripartite Pact
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| 1982 | Diplomacy Luce, Richard | |
| Falklands, The British and Argentine deputy foreign ministers issue a joint communique praising the 'cordial and positive spirit' of sovereignty discussions held in New York
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| 1909 | Discovery of Pole Shackleton, Ernest Henry | |
| Cape Royds The Nimrod spots Shackleton from Cape Royds & pick him up
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| 1966 | Discovery of Venus Khruschev, Nikita Sergeyevich | |
| The unmanned Venus 3 touches down on Venus
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| 1950 | Economy Adenauer, Konrad | |
| Bonn Rationing ends in West Germany, apart from sugar
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| 1562 | Edict Saint Germain Catherine de Medici | |
| Wassy sur Blaise A faction of the Guise family's retainers attack a Calvinist service in Wassy-sur-Blaise in Champagne and massacre the worshippers, as hostilities break out, the Edict is revoked, under pressure from the Guise faction
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| Wassy sur Blaise A faction of the Guise family's retainers attack a Calvinist service in Wassy-sur-Blaise in Champagne and massacre the worshippers, as hostilities break out, the Edict is revoked, under pressure from the Guise faction
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| Vassy Within a matter of weeks ofter the edict of Saint-Germain, the Vassy massacre opens the first religious war, which in fact was a victory for the more intolerant Guise policy and a defeat for the conciliations of Catherine
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| 1998 | Election Schroder, Gerhard | |
| Saxony The Social Democrats win the state lections in Lower Saxony
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| 1974 | Election Heath, Edward Richard George | |
| Attempts unsuccessfully to form a coaltion with the Liberals
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| 1974 | Election Thorpe, Jeremy | |
| Refuses to join a co-altion with the Conservatives & the Labour Party comes to power
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| 1985 | Election Sanguinetti, Julio Maria | |
| The Colorado Party win the election
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| 1546 | Execution Wishart, George | |
| London The Scottish Lutheran is burnt at the stake on the orders of Cardinal Beaton
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| 1959 | Exile Makarios, Mikhail Khristodolou Mouskos | |
| Makarios ends his exile & returns to Cyprus
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| 1815 | Exile of Napoleon I Napoleon I | |
| Lands in Cannes from Elba with 1,500 men & begins a march on Paris
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| 1917 | Exile of Nicholas II Nicholas II | |
| Pskov The Imperial train is diverted to Pskov
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| 1917 | February Revolution Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov | |
| Petrograd The first Joint Plenum of the Soviet of Workers' and Soldiers' Deputies issues Soviet Order No. 1: all soldiers' units will elect Soldiers' Committees & the decree stipulates that soldiers will now accept orders from the Soldiers' Soviet
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| 1917 | February Revolution Nicholas II | |
| Petrograd The first Joint Plenum of the Soviet of Workers' and Soldiers' Deputies issue |
