På denne dag: 7. februar
Utforsk avgjørende hendelser, vitenskapelige sprang og historiske vendepunkter. Med kildekritisk merking for antikke og kalenderusatte datoer.
457: Historisk hendelse
Leo I (pictured), who ruled for nearly 20 years, was crowned Byzantine emperor.
1365: Historisk hendelse
Albert, King of Sweden, granted a charter to the town of Ulvila, the third-oldest city in Finland.
1497: Historisk hendelse
Supporters of the Dominican preacher Girolamo Savonarola collected and publicly burned thousands of vanity items such as cosmetics, art and books in Florence, Italy.
1783: Historisk hendelse
American Revolutionary War: After three years and seven months, Spain and France abandoned their attempt (pictured) to capture Gibraltar from the British.
1795: Historisk hendelse
The Eleventh Amendment to the United States Constitution, limiting the ability of U.S. citizens and foreign nationals to sue U.S. states in federal courts, was ratified.
1813: Historisk hendelse
Napoleonic Wars: Two evenly matched frigates, the French Aréthuse and the British Amelia, battled to a stalemate (pictured) at the Îles de Los off the Guinean coast.
1865: Historisk hendelse
The trustees of Seattle enacted an ordinance that expelled Native Americans from the newly incorporated town.
1900: Historisk hendelse
A Chinese immigrant in San Francisco fell ill with the bubonic plague in the first epidemic of the disease in the continental United States.
1900: Historisk hendelse
Second Boer War: British troops made a third unsuccessful attempt to lift the siege of Ladysmith in the Battle of Vaal Krantz.
1914: Historisk hendelse
Kid Auto Races at Venice, featuring the first appearance of comedy actor Charlie Chaplin's character the Tramp, was released.
1940: Historisk hendelse
Walt Disney's Pinocchio, the first animated feature to win a competitive Academy Award, debuted at the Center Theatre in New York City.
1941: Historisk hendelse
Soviet border guards opened fire on civilians attempting to cross the border from the Soviet Union to Romania near Lunca, killing several hundred people.
1943: Historisk hendelse
World War II: Japan successfully withdrew its troops from Guadalcanal.
1948: Historisk hendelse
Neil Harvey became the youngest Australian to score a century in Test cricket.
1984: Historisk hendelse
During the Space Shuttle Challenger mission STS-41-B, astronauts Bruce McCandless II and Robert L. Stewart performed the first untethered spacewalk (pictured).
1986: Historisk hendelse
President of Haiti Jean-Claude Duvalier fled the country after a popular uprising, ending 28 years of one-family rule in the nation.
1991: Historisk hendelse
The Troubles: The Provisional Irish Republican Army shelled 10 Downing Street with mortars in a failed attempt to assassinate British prime minister John Major.
1992: Historisk hendelse
The Maastricht Treaty, which led to the formation of the European Union, was signed by the member states of the European Communities.
1994: Historisk hendelse
Having retired four months earlier, American basketball player Michael Jordan signed a contract with the Chicago White Sox to play baseball.
1995: Historisk hendelse
Ramzi Yousef, one of the main perpetrators of the 1993 World Trade Center bombing and the bombing of Philippine Airlines Flight 434, was arrested in Islamabad, Pakistan.
1997: Historisk hendelse
Steve Jobs returned to Apple Inc. as a consultant after the company's acquisition of his technology startup NeXT.
1999: Historisk hendelse
Abdullah II became the reigning King of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan following the death of his father King Hussein.
2005: Historisk hendelse
President Ilham Aliyev issued a decree on the redenomination of Azerbaijan's currency, with 1 new manat equal to 5000 old manats.
2014: Historisk hendelse
An inquiry report of the United Nations Human Rights Council found systematic and wide-ranging violations of human rights in North Korea.
2014: Historisk hendelse
Researchers announced the discovery of the Happisburgh footprints in Norfolk, England, the oldest known hominid footprints outside Africa, at more than 800,000 years old.
🔍 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.