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February 8 is the 39th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar; 326 days remain until the end of the year (327 in leap years).
Events
[edit]Pre-1600
[edit]- 421 – Constantius III becomes co-emperor of the Western Roman Empire.[1]
- 1238 – The Mongols burn the Russian city of Vladimir.[2][3]
- 1250 – Seventh Crusade: Crusaders engage Ayyubid forces in the Battle of Al Mansurah.[4]
- 1347 – The Byzantine civil war of 1341–47 ends with a power-sharing agreement between John VI Kantakouzenos and John V Palaiologos.[5][6]
- 1587 – Mary, Queen of Scots is executed on suspicion of having been involved in the Babington Plot to murder her cousin, Queen Elizabeth I.[7][8]
1601–1900
[edit]- 1601 – Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex, unsuccessfully rebels against Queen Elizabeth I.[9][10]
- 1693 – The College of William & Mary in Williamsburg, Virginia, the second-oldest institution of higher education in the Thirteen Colonies, is granted a charter by King William III and Queen Mary II.[11]
- 1807 – Napoleon defeats the coalition forces of Russian General Bennigsen and Prussian General L'Estocq at the Battle of Eylau.[12][13]
- 1817 – An army led by Grand Marshal Las Heras crosses the Andes to join San Martín in the liberation of Chile from Spain.[14][15]
- 1837 – Richard Johnson becomes the first and only Vice President of the United States chosen by the Senate.[16][17]
- 1865 – Delaware refuses to ratify the Thirteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, delaying the criminalization of slavery until the amendment's national adoption on December 6, 1865.[18][19] The amendment is ultimately ratified by Delaware on February 12, 1901, the 92nd anniversary of Abraham Lincoln's birth.[20][21]
- 1879 – Sandford Fleming first proposes the adoption of Universal Standard Time at a meeting of the Royal Canadian Institute.[22][23]
- 1879 – England's cricket team, led by