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United States history categories (Select [+] to view subcategories) ... He was previously inaugurated as a provisional president on February 18, 1861.
1033 – An assembly at the Abbey of Payerne crowned Conrad II (depicted) king of Burgundy.; 1438 – Nine leaders of the Transylvanian peasant revolt were executed at Torda.; 1848 – 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 ...
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February 18 – Adams announces a new diplomatic envoy to France. [27] February 23 – Adams meets with a commission of his rival Arch Federalists, led by Theodore Sedgwick, to negotiate Adams' decision to appoint William Vans Murray in the diplomatic envoy to France. Fearing that such collaboration might be unconstitutional, Adams agreed on ...
Action of 9 February 1945: German submarine U-864 was sunk west of Bergen, Norway by the British submarine Venturer. To date this remains the only time in history one submarine has intentionally sunk another submarine while both were fully submerged. Adolf Hitler viewed a post-war model of his hometown of Linz, Austria.
Revisionist historians present a timeline where the revolution in February was far less inevitable than the liberals and communists would make it seem. Revisionists track the mounting pressure on the Tsarist regime back further than the other two groups to unsatisfied peasants in the countryside upset over matters of land-ownership. [68]
February 24 – Zell Miller, American politician (d. 2018) February 25 – Faron Young, American country singer (d. 1996) February 26 – Johnny Cash, American country singer-songwriter, guitarist, actor and author (d. 2003) February 27 – Elizabeth Taylor, English-American film actress (d. 2011) February 29 – Gene H. Golub, American ...
This is a timeline of the events that stretched over the period of late World War II, its conclusion, legal aftermath, with the inclusion of the Cold War, from January 1945 to December 1991. January 1945