February 21

The February 21 is the 52nd day of the Gregorian calendar, so stay 313 days ( 314 days in leap years ) of the year.

  • 2.1 Before the 18th century
  • 2.2 18th century
  • 2.3 19th century
  • 2.4 20th century 2.4.1 1901-1950
  • 2.4.2 1951-2000
  • 3.1 Before the 19th century
  • 3.2 19th century
  • 3.3 20th century
  • 3.4 21st century

Events

Politics and World Affairs

  • 0004: Gaius Caesar, the designated successor of the Emperor Augustus, dies of a wound he received in the previous year at the siege of Armenian fortress Artagira, in the Lycian port city Limyra.
  • 1322: In France, Charles IV the Fair will be crowned king.
  • 1388: With the sending of the letter feud by the Electorate of Cologne Dortmund at the Great Dortmund feud begins. In addition to the Archbishop of Cologne and the Count of Mark say in a row, more than 40 other territorial rulers of the imperial city of the feud.
  • 1519: At the urging of Christian craftsmen of the Regensburg city council orders the expulsion of the urban Jews. During the ensuing pogrom, the largest Jewish community at this time is destroyed in the Holy Roman Empire.
  • 2004: In Rome is founded as the first pan-European party, the European Green Party. Its members include 35 parties from 32 European countries.
  • 2007: Following a vote defeat of the Italian Prime Minister Romano Prodi offers his resignation, which is not accepted by President Giorgio Napolitano.

Economy

  • 2000: The first edition of the Financial Times Germany, sister publication of the Financial Times, appears under the supervision of the British founding chief editor Andrew Gowers and management of Michael Rzesnitzek.

Science and Technology

Culture

Society

Religion

  • 0362: The banished from the town church father Athanasius returns after the Edict of Restitution of Emperor Julian as a bishop to Alexandria back.
  • 1384: The Catholic Theological Faculty of the University of Vienna by Duke Albrecht III. founded and is the first in the German language area.
  • 1431: Joan of Arc of heresy is charged and brought before a court in Rouen.
  • 1946: The German Archbishop Joseph Frings is in Rome by Pope Pius XII. appointed cardinal.

Disasters

Minor accidents are listed in the sub- items of disaster.

Nature and Environment

Sports

Entries of Athletics world records are located under the respective discipline under Athletics.

Born

Before the 18th century

18th century

19th century

20th century

1901-1950

1951-2000

21st Century

Died

Before the 19th century

19th century

20th century

21st Century

  • 2001: José Alí Lebrun Moratinos, Venezuelan Cardinal, Archbishop of Caracas
  • 2001: Peter Roggisch, German actor
  • 2002: Hamlet Lima Quintana, Argentinian writer and musician
  • 2004: Guido Molinari, Canadian painter and graphic artist
  • 2004: Jürgen Roloff, German theologian
  • 2005: Horst Drinda, German director and actor
  • 2005: Ákos Stefi, Hungarian singer
  • 2005: Guillermo Cabrera Infante, Cuban writer
  • 2005: Gerhard Hecht, German boxer
  • 2005: Josef Metternich, German opera singer
  • 2006: Pierre Amandry, French Classical Archaeologist
  • 2006: Gennady Nikolayevich Aigi, Chuvash poet
  • 2006: Angelica Adelstein - Rozeanu, Romanian table tennis player
  • 2007: Herbert Thomas Mandl, Czech musician, philosopher and writer
  • 2008: Sufi Abu Taleb, Egyptian politician
  • 2008: Hans Janitschek, Austrian journalist, author and diplomat
  • 2008: Emmanuel Sanon, Haitian football player
  • 2009: Sebastian Hackert, German musician and producer
  • 2010: Stefan Hormuth, German social psychologist
  • 2010: John Casimir Prinz zu Sayn -Wittgenstein- Berleburg, German entrepreneur and politician, MEP

Holidays and observances

  • Religious observances Lars Levi Laestadius, Swedish pastor and botanist, " Apostle of the cloth " ( Protestant)
  • St. Irene of Rome ( Catholic)
  • St. Peter Damian, Italian monk, theologian and Doctor of the Church, Cardinal and patron ( Catholic)
  • Customs Germany: Biikebrennen

More entries contains the list of commemorative and Action days.

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February 16 February 28 February 30 History of Armenia 1613 Michael I of Russia Dynasty 1808 Treaties of Tilsit 1848 Communist League Marxism French Revolution of 1848 1849 Hugh Gough, 1st Viscount Gough British Raj 1887 1916 December 18 1919 Kurt Eisner April 7 1921 Ahmad Amir-Ahmadi 1921 Persian coup d'etat Fathollah Khan Akbar 1931 Arequipa 1952 Urdu East Pakistan 1958 1965 Harlem Elijah Muhammad 1970 Swissair Flight 330 1971 1972 1989 Velvet Revolution 1992 1995 Mahamane Ousmane Hama Amadou 2003 Athens Italy 1828 Cherokee Phoenix Georgia (U.S. state) 1842 1878 1925 Harold Ross The New Yorker 1935 1996 Bremer Vulkan Insolvency 1811 Humphry Davy Chlorine Chemical element 1832 John Biscoe Grahamland Antarctic Peninsula 1902 Harvey Williams Cushing Kiel 1947 Polaroid Corporation 1822 1826 1852 Adolphe Adam 1880 1885 Robert Mills (architect) Washington Monument Obelisk United States Capitol 1886 Khovanshchina 1907 Frederick Delius Gottfried Keller 1927 Richard Tauber Operetta Der Zarewitsch 1930 Viktoria und ihr Husar Aldermaston Marches 1962 The Physicists Bayerischer Rundfunk Hans Clarin 1978 Coyolxauhqui 1986 Metallica 1999 Terrence Malick 1816 William II of the Netherlands Anna Pavlovna of Russia Paul I of Russia Church Fathers Cardinal (Catholicism) 1858 SS Berlin (1894) Hook of Holland 1973 Kashmir 1918 1960 1960 Winter Olympics Klas Lestander 1967 1976 1976 Winter Paralympics Hot air ballooning Balloon (aircraft) Adventure Martin Schmitt FIS Nordic World Ski Championships 1999 Sven Hannawald 1397 1484 Joachim I Nestor, Elector of Brandenburg 1490 1541 1556 Sethus Calvisius 1591 1609 1617 1632 1675 1690 1728 Peter III of Russia 1731 1755 1770 1777 1779 Friedrich Carl von Savigny 1785 1791 Carl Czerny John Mercer (scientist) 1792 1794 1795 Francisco Manuel da Silva 1796 1801 Heinrich Leberecht Fleischer 1805 Theodor Hartig 1806 1820 Apollo Korzeniowski 1821 1823 1831 Henri Meilhac 1836 Emil Hartmann 1837 1841 1844 Charles-Marie Widor 1846 1851 Karl Wilhelm Diefenbach 1854 Ernst von Hesse-Wartegg Oldfield Thomas 1860 1861 1863 Otto Jaekel 1864 Alfred Jeremias Coelho Neto 1865 1866 1870 1871 Paul Cassirer 1873 1875 1876 Joseph Meister 1877 1881 Heinrich Mendelssohn Sacha Guitry Georg Lippold 1892 1893 Hans Zulliger 1895 Henrik Dam Erich Knauf Emil Stepanek 1896 1897 1898 1899 Bernard Griffin 1900 1903 William H. Clothier Dorothea Neff 1904 1906 1908 Hans Ertl (cameraman) 1909 Elsie Attenhofer Hans Erni Auguste Jordan 1910 Willi Oberbeck 1913 Glenn M. Anderson Benjamin Bloom Roger Laurent 1915 Godfrey Brown Ann Sheridan 1917 Otto Kittel Kehat Shorr 1920 Ishigaki Rin Pyotr Dolgov 1922 1923 1924 Karl Ferdinand Werner 1926 Erma Bombeck Walter Hartley Pierre Mercure 1928 Cecil Sandford 1929 1933 Bob Rafelson 1934 Rue McClanahan 1937 Ron Clarke Gary Lockwood 1938 Lester Bird 1939 1940 Gaston Caperton 1941 1942 Margarethe von Trotta 1943 David Geffen Paul Kirchhof 1944 1945 David Ambrose Walter Momper Anthony Daniels Alan Rickman Ottmar Schreiner Eddy Achterberg Stephen Hadley 1948 Christian Vander (musician) 1949 Richard Tarnas Vince Welnick 1953 Christine Ebersole 1954 Ivo Van Damme 1955 Rolf Schlierer 1956 Ha Jin 1957 Raymond Roche Mary Chapin Carpenter Jack Coleman (actor) Angela Gehann-Dernbach Simon Holt Alan Trammell Martin Weppler 1959 Peter Klein (athlete) 1961 Christopher Atkins Martha Hackett 1963 William Baldwin Karl Lauterbach 1964 Tomas Sivertsson 1966 Michaela Marzola Leroy Burrell Silke-Beate Knoll 1968 1969 Corey Harris Petra Kronberger 1974 Gilbert Agius 1977 Steve Francis Ralf Bartels Kim Ha-neul 1979 Jennifer Love Hewitt 1980 Tiziano Ferro Parthiva Sureshwaren 1983 Braylon Edwards 1984 David Odonkor Andreas Seppi 1985 Georgios Samaras Charlotte Church 1987 Ashley Greene Ellen Page 1988 Sebastian Zielinsky Corbin Bleu Kristin Herrera 1990 David Addy 1991 Manfred Starke Sophie Turner (actress) 1451 William Douglas, 8th Earl of Douglas 1513 1537 1554 Hieronymus Bock 1571 1616 1633 1653 Adriaan Pauw 1677 1721 1730 Pope Benedict XIII 1762 1824 1834 John Breathitt 1838 Dorothea Tieck 1856 1862 Constant Troyon 1868 1882 1883 Franz von Rinecker 1894 Gustave Caillebotte Charles Piazzi Smyth Emil Holub Hugo Wilhelm von Ziemssen 1911 1912 Osborne Reynolds Hedwig Lachmann Louis Tuaillon Heike Kamerlingh Onnes Hans von Koester George Ellery Hale Frederick Banting Giacinto Ghia Ferenc Szisz Leonhard Adelt Eric Liddell Edwin Franko Goldman Jacques Becker Georg Jacoby Wolf Albach-Retty Tilla Durieux Hanns Hopp Brigitte Reimann John Hubley Henry Jordan Waldemar de Brito Alfred Andersch Aldo Andreotti Mario Lanzi 1981 Ron Grainer 1982 Otar Taktakishvili Eva Jessye 1993 Jean Lecanuet Inge Lehmann Morton Gould 1997 Josef Posipal
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