February 5
The February 5 is the 36th day of the Gregorian calendar, so stay 329 days ( 330 days in leap years ) of the year.
- 2.4.1 2001-2050
- 3.1 Before the 19th century
- 3.2 19th century
- 3.3 20th century
- 3.4 21st century
Events
Politics and World Affairs
- 0146 BC: The Third Punic War ends with the conquest of Carthage by the Roman troops.
- 0002 BCE: The Roman Senate honors Emperor Augustus with the title pater patriae ("Father of the Fatherland" ).
- 0506: The Visigothic king Alaric II lets the people right in the Lex Romana Visigothorum codify and gives it out as Alaric Breviary, a collection of Roman law.
- 1204: During the siege of Constantinople in the Fourth Crusade Alexius V is determined to the Byzantine emperor.
Economy
Science and Technology
Culture
Society
Religion
Disasters
- 0062: The Roman towns of Pompeii and Herculaneum at the foot of Mount Vesuvius, are severely damaged by an earthquake.
- 1783: A series of earthquakes begins, the particular parts of Calabria and Messina haunts. Until March 28, 300 villages are destroyed, 30,000 people lose their lives.
- 1805: The British East Indiaman Earl of Abergavenny decreases in Weymouth, England, after he was previously damaged by beaching on a sandbar. 261 of 405 people die on board, including the captain, John Wordsworth, a brother of the poet William Wordsworth.
- 1918: The British troopship Tuscania is sunk off Northern Ireland by the German submarine UB 77. 166 people are killed.
- 1997: Two earthquake in northeastern Iran cost about 100 people their lives, several villages are destroyed.
Minor accidents are listed in the sub- items of disaster.
Sports
Entries of Athletics world records are located under the respective discipline under Athletics.
Born
Before the 19th century
- 0976: Sanjō, 67th Tenno of Japan
- 1505: Aegidius Tschudi, the first Swiss chronicler ( Chronicon Helveticum ) and Glarus politicians
- 1525: Juraj Draskovic Trakošćan, Croatian nobleman, bishop and cardinal
- 1558: Heinrich Schickhardt, German architect of the Renaissance
- 1587: Paul Röber, German Lutheran theologian
- 1600: Johan Picardt, German - Dutch doctor, pastor and writer
- 1608: Caspar Schott, German scientists
- 1612: Antoine Arnauld, French philosopher
- 1626: Marie de Rabutin -Chantal, marquise de Sévigné, French author
- 1650: Anne Jules de Noailles, French general, marshal of France
- 1653: Johann Heinrich May the Elder, German Lutheran theologian, scholar and historian
- 1667: Gottfried Reiche, German trumpeter and composer
- 1671: Bartholomew Deichman, Danish- Norwegian bishop of Christiania
- 1708: Pompeo Batoni, Italian painter
- 1714: Johann Gottlieb Gleditsch, German botanist and physician
- 1725: James Otis, American lawyer
- 1734: Johann Georg Gottlob Black, German Protestant theologian
- 1748: Christian Gottlob Neefe, German organist, composer
- 1756: Mathias von Flurl, founder of the Bavarian Mineralogy and Geology
- 1766: Heinrich Gentz , German architect
- 1784: Karl Friedrich Christian Wenck, German jurist
- 1788: Robert Peel, British politician and head of government
- 1789: Alois Hildwein, Austrian architect of the Biedermeier
- 1795: Jean Pierre Beckx, General of the Jesuits
- 1795: Wilhelm Ritter von Haidinger, Austrian geologist and mineralogist
- 1796: John of scourge, archbishop of Cologne
- 1799: John Lindley, English botanist
19th century
20th century
1901-1950
Alan Lloyd Hodgkin (* 1914)
1951-2000
21st Century
2001-2050
- 2002: Davis Cleveland, American actor
Died
Before the 19th century
19th century
20th century
21st Century
- 2003: Manfred von Brauchitsch, German racing driver and sports official
- 2003: Josef Steiner, Swiss chess player
- 2004: John Hench, American cartoon animator and Disney artist
- 2004: Heinrich Rombach, German professor of philosophy
- 2005: Sven Ingvar Agge, Swedish biathlete
- 2005: Gnassingbe Eyadema, Togolese President
- 2005: Günter Reimann, German economist and journalist
- 2007: Alfred Worm, Austrian journalist
- 2008: Marc Adrian, Austrian artist and filmmaker
- 2008: Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, Indian writer and philosopher, founder of the Transcendental Meditation
- 2009: Anne -Marie Blanc, Swiss actress
- 2009: Jan Diesselhorst, German cellist of the Berlin Philharmonic
- 2009: Dana Vávrová, German -Czech actress and director
- 2009: Franz Villingen, German aircraft designer
- 2010: Sujit Kumar, Indian film actresses
- 2011: Fanizani Akuda, Zimbabwean sculptors
- 2011: Omar Amiralay, Syrian filmmaker
- 2011: John Paul Getty III, American billionaire
- 2011: Donald Peterman, American Cinematographer
- 2014: Robert Alan Dahl, American political scientist
Holidays and observances
- Religious observances St. Agatha of Catania, Roman virgin and martyr (Catholic, Orthodox)
- Jacob ( patriarch ), progenitor of the people of Israel ( Catholic, Protestant: LCMS )
- Philipp Jacob Spener, German minister ( Protestant)
- Holy Martyrs of Nagasaki, Japanese martyrs (Protestant: ELCA, the Anglican and Catholic feast day is February 6 )
- Name Days Alina, Adelheid
More entries contains the list of commemorative and action days.
- Day
- Day in February