På denne dag: 12. februar
Utforsk avgjørende hendelser, vitenskapelige sprang og historiske vendepunkter. Med kildekritisk merking for antikke og kalenderusatte datoer.
1502: Historisk hendelse
Queen Isabella I issued an edict outlawing Islam in the Crown of Castile, forcing virtually all her Muslim subjects to convert to Christianity.
1691: Historisk hendelse
A papal conclave convened to select a new pope after the death of Pope Alexander VIII.
1855: Historisk hendelse
The precursor of Michigan State University in East Lansing was founded as the United States' first agricultural college.
1894: Historisk hendelse
Ère des attentats: In one of the first acts of modern terrorism, Émile Henry threw a bomb into Café Terminus in Paris, France, killing one person and injuring 17 more.
1909: Historisk hendelse
The ferry SS Penguin struck a rock in Wellington Harbour and sank, killing 75 people in New Zealand's worst maritime disaster of the 20th century.
1917: Historisk hendelse
Mexican football club Toluca FC was founded by a group of local businessmen and sports enthusiasts.
1924: Historisk hendelse
George Gershwin's composition Rhapsody in Blue premiered at Aeolian Hall in New York.
1935: Historisk hendelse
USS Macon, one of the largest helium-filled airships ever created, crashed into the Pacific Ocean off the coast of California.
1942: Historisk hendelse
The Imperial Japanese Army initiated the Battle of Pasir Panjang in Kent Ridge Park in Singapore.
1945: Historisk hendelse
A devistating tornado outbreak across Mississippi and Alabama kills 45 people and injures 427 others.
1968: Historisk hendelse
Following the deaths of two employees on the job, black sanitation workers in Memphis, Tennessee, began a strike that lasted more than two months.
1988: Historisk hendelse
While claiming the right of innocent passage through Soviet territorial waters in the Black Sea, the American cruiser USS Yorktown and destroyer USS Caron were bumped by Soviet warships.
1993: Historisk hendelse
Two-year-old James Bulger was led away from New Strand Shopping Centre in Bootle, England, and murdered by two 10-year-old boys, who became the youngest convicted murderers in modern English history.
1994: Historisk hendelse
Edvard Munch's painting The Scream (pictured) was stolen from the National Gallery of Norway.
2001: Historisk hendelse
The NASA space probe NEAR Shoemaker touched down on Eros, becoming the first spacecraft to land on an asteroid.
2003: Historisk hendelse
Protesters in La Paz and the Bolivian government brokered a deal to end two days of rioting against a proposed salary tax.
2009: Historisk hendelse
Just before landing at Buffalo Niagara International Airport, Colgan Air Flight 3407 crashes into a house in Clarence Center, New York, killing the house's occupant and all 49 people on board the aircraft.
2016: Historisk hendelse
In the first meeting between the leaders of the Catholic Church and the Russian Orthodox Church, Pope Francis and Patriarch Kirill of Moscow signed the Havana Declaration at José Martí International Airport in Cuba.
2019: Historisk hendelse
After being informed that its recently purchased coffin of Nedjemankh (pictured) had been looted, the Metropolitan Museum of Art shuttered its ongoing exhibition Nedjemankh and His Gilded Coffin two months early and later returned the artifact to Egypt.
🔍 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.