På denne dag: 28. februar
Utforsk avgjørende hendelser, vitenskapelige sprang og historiske vendepunkter. Med kildekritisk merking for antikke og kalenderusatte datoer.
202 f.Kr.: Historisk hendelse
Rebel leader Liu Bang declared himself Emperor Gaozu of Han after overthrowing the Qin dynasty, the first imperial dynasty of China.
1638: Historisk hendelse
The National Covenant was formally adopted in opposition to proposed reforms to the Church of Scotland by King Charles I.
1874: Historisk hendelse
In one of the longest cases ever heard in an English court, the claimant in the Tichborne case was convicted of perjury for attempting to assume the identity of the missing heir to the Tichborne baronetcy.
1893: Historisk hendelse
USS Indiana, the lead ship of her class and the first battleship in the United States Navy comparable to foreign battleships of the time, was launched.
1897: Historisk hendelse
Ranavalona III (pictured), the last sovereign ruler of the Kingdom of Madagascar, was deposed by French military forces.
1904: Historisk hendelse
The most successful football club in Portugal, S.L. Benfica (first team pictured), was founded in Lisbon as Sport Lisboa.
1914: Historisk hendelse
In the aftermath of the Balkan Wars, Greeks living in southern Albania proclaimed the short-lived Autonomous Republic of Northern Epirus.
1928: Historisk hendelse
Indian physicist C. V. Raman and his colleagues discovered what is now known as Raman scattering, for which he later became the first Asian to win the Nobel Prize in Physics.
1939: Historisk hendelse
In one of the most famous errors in lexicography, the erroneous word dord was discovered in Webster's New International Dictionary by an editor.
1947: Historisk hendelse
Nationalist soldiers fired on protesters in Taipei (crowd pictured), triggering widespread uprisings and violent suppression in the White Terror.
1963: Historisk hendelse
Chicago alderman Benjamin F. Lewis was murdered in his office by unknown assailants two days after having been reelected.
1966: Historisk hendelse
American test pilots Charles Bassett and Elliot See die in a plane crash in St. Louis, Missouri.
1972: Historisk hendelse
Japanese police stormed a mountain lodge near Karuizawa, Nagano Prefecture, to end a ten-day siege by members of the paramilitary group United Red Army.
1974: Historisk hendelse
The British election ended in a hung parliament after the Liberal Party, under Jeremy Thorpe, achieved their highest ever number of votes.
1975: Historisk hendelse
A London Underground train failed to stop at the terminal Moorgate station, crashing and causing the deaths of 43 people.
1985: Historisk hendelse
The Troubles: The Provisional Irish Republican Army launched a mortar attack on a Royal Ulster Constabulary station in Newry, Northern Ireland, killing nine people.
1997: Historisk hendelse
GRB 970228, a highly luminous 80-second flash of gamma rays, was detected on Earth, providing early evidence that gamma-ray bursts occur well beyond the Milky Way.
1997: Historisk hendelse
Two heavily armed bank robbers exchanged gunfire with officers of the Los Angeles Police Department in North Hollywood, in one of the most intense gun battles in American police history.
2001: Historisk hendelse
A high-speed train crash occurred near Selby in North Yorkshire, England, killing 10 and injuring 82.
2002: Historisk hendelse
During a period of religious violence in Gujarat, India, mobs of Hindus attacked Muslims in Naroda Patiya and in Chamanpura, resulting in 166 deaths.
2013: Historisk hendelse
Benedict XVI became the first pope in nearly 600 years to resign from the papacy.
2021: Historisk hendelse
Bus drivers in Greater Manchester began an eleven-week strike, one of the longest in British transportation history.
2026: Historisk hendelse
The United States and Israel launched strikes against Iran, killing Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei and other senior officials.
🔍 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.