På denne dag: 2. februar
Utforsk avgjørende hendelser, vitenskapelige sprang og historiske vendepunkter. Med kildekritisk merking for antikke og kalenderusatte datoer.
506: Historisk hendelse
Alaric II, King of the Visigoths, promulgated a collection of Roman law known as the Breviary of Alaric (excerpt pictured).
1033: Historisk hendelse
An assembly at the Abbey of Payerne crowned Conrad II (pictured) king of Burgundy.
1207: Historisk hendelse
Terra Mariana, comprising present-day Estonia and Latvia, was established as a principality of the Holy Roman Empire.
1438: Historisk hendelse
Nine leaders of the Transylvanian peasant revolt were executed in Torda.
1594: Historisk hendelse
Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina dies at the age of 68.
1659: Historisk hendelse
Jan van Riebeeck, the founder of Cape Town, produced the first bottle of South African wine.
1709: Historisk hendelse
Scottish sailor Alexander Selkirk was rescued by English captain Woodes Rogers and his crew after spending four years as a castaway on an uninhabited island in the Pacific, providing the inspiration for Daniel Defoe's novel Robinson Crusoe.
1725: Historisk hendelse
J. S. Bach led the first performance of his chorale cantata Mit Fried und Freud ich fahr dahin, BWV 125, based on Luther's paraphrase of the Nunc dimittis.
1848: Historisk hendelse
Mexican–American War: During the American occupation of Mexico City, diplomats signed the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, which ended the war and had Mexico cede 1.36 million square kilometres (530,000 sq mi) of territory and the United States pay US$15 million.
1913: Historisk hendelse
New York City's Grand Central Terminal, the world's largest train station by number of platforms, opened immediately after midnight.
1934: Historisk hendelse
The Export–Import Bank of the United States, the country's official export credit agency, was established.
1942: Historisk hendelse
The first act of the Norwegian resistance movement took place with the bombing of Oslo East Station by the Osvald Group to protest the inauguration of Vidkun Quisling.
1963: Historisk hendelse
Cold War in Asia: 113 alleged communists were arrested and detained without trial by Singapore's security agencies.
1972: Historisk hendelse
The Troubles: Protestors burned the British Embassy in Ireland following the massacre of 14 civilians in Derry by British forces.
1974: Historisk hendelse
The F-16 Fighting Falcon (pictured), the most numerous fixed-wing aircraft currently in military service, made its first flight.
2004: Historisk hendelse
Swiss tennis player Roger Federer became the top-ranked men's singles player, a position he held for a record 237 consecutive weeks.
2007: Historisk hendelse
Following a Derby di Sicilia match in Catania, football violence caused the death of police officer Filippo Raciti, leading to new safety regulations at Italian sporting events.
2009: Historisk hendelse
Omid, Iran's first domestically made satellite, was launched from Semnan Space Center.
2012: Historisk hendelse
The passenger ferry MV Rabaul Queen capsized and sank in rough conditions in the Solomon Sea, resulting in at least 88 deaths.
🔍 Om kildene og historisk datering
Å tidfeste hendelser tusenvis av år tilbake i tid er en krevende historievitenskapelig oppgave. Før innføringen av den julianske kalenderen (45 f.Kr.) og den gregorianske kalenderen (1582) benyttet ulike sivilisasjoner (romere, grekere, kinesere, babylonere) vidt forskjellige kalendersystemer basert på månesykluser eller lokale embetsperioder.
Slik merker vi dateringene:
• ✓ Sikker datering: Dokumentert i samtidige protokoller, offisielle traktater eller etter standardiserte kalendersystemer.
• ⚠️ Usikker / estimert: Hendelsen er historisk reell, men datoen er tradisjonell, basert på senere krøniker eller lunisolare omregninger.
- Wikimedia Foundation – Wikipedia On This Day arkiver og historiske registre.
- Store norske leksikon (SNL) – Norsk og internasjonal historie, biografier og årstallsverifisering.
- Encyclopædia Britannica – Verifisering av antikke slag, fredsavtaler og statsdannelser.
- NASA Historical Logs & Science Missions – Romfartshistoriske datoer og oppskytningstelemetri.