February 15 in History

Lands at la rochelle & begins a campaign in western France

Elected (co) king of Sweden. Becomes joint ruler of Sweden, 1362-64

Created Duke of Cornwall

Rules as Moliere stages Dom Juan during the height of royal theatrical patronage.

Premieres Dom Juan in Paris after the controversy over Tartuffe.

Kaunitz enters into peace negotiations that lead to the 1763 Treaty of Hubertusburg

The Treaty of Hubertusburg is signed by Prussia, Austria and Saxony to end the Third Silesian War

The Treaty of Hubertusburg, though it restores the prewar status quo, marks the ascendancy of Prussia as a leading European power

The Treaty of Hubertusburg is signed by Prussia, Austria and Saxony to end the Third Silesian War

Argues against the constitutionality of the Bank of the United States

An alliance is concluded with the Cisalpine Republic

Helps capture Santiago from the Spanish

The Congress of Angostura opened to organize republican institutions and consider a union with New Granada.

Brunel joins Bryan Donkin and others in reporting to the Treasury on moving Charles Babbage's calculating engine.

Discovers the Adelaide Island

Introduces 350 petitions against slavery into the House of Representitives

Introduces 350 petitions against slavery into the House of Representitives

Introduces the Irish Land Act to give Irish peasants comparible rights with England

Introduces the Irish Land Act to give Irish peasants comparible rights with England

Appointed Home Secretary

Promotes railway planning as the Canadian Pacific Railway contract is approved.

Appointed Minister of Railways before moving to finance.

The battleship USS Maine is sent to menace Imperial Spain and its sinking helps to precipitate the Spanish-American War over the issue of Cuban independence

The battleship USS Maine is sent to menace Imperial Spain and its sinking helps to precipitate the Spanish-American War over the issue of Cuban independence

The battleship USS Maine is sent to menace Imperial Spain and its sinking helps to precipitate the Spanish-American War over the issue of Cuban independence. The battleship USS Maine explodes and sinks in Havana harbor, the explosion kills 266 of her crew

USS Maine exploded in Havana harbour on 15 February 1898, killing 266 men and becoming a major catalyst in the crisis with Spain.

Leads the cavalry relief of Kimberley.

French leads the cavalry relief before his Ypres title.

Kekewich receives the relieving cavalry after his garrison has held Kimberley through a four-month siege.

Rhodes remains in Kimberley until French's cavalry breaks the Boer siege and enters the town.

The Irish Nationalists win 84 seats & again hold the balance of power. Liberals 275 seats, Conservatives 273, Labour 42

Appointed Home Secretary

Irish Nationalists hold the parliamentary balance after the election.

Jackson opens Britain's first purpose-built repertory theatre in Birmingham.

Churchill cites Dogger Bank as evidence of the range and power of British battlecruiser gunnery.

Churchill tells Parliament that the Navy entered the war fully mobilised, supplied and stationed for operations.

Churchill states that British naval strength retains a substantial numerical margin over Germany.

Churchill reports that wartime procedures are accelerating completion of new warships.

Churchill states that the fleet possesses adequate reserves of ammunition, torpedoes, coal and oil.

Wins a Reichstag confidence vote by 220 votes to 185 after controversy over the government's handling of the railway strike.

The Christopher Hornsrud Government ends in Oslo, concluding this term as Prime Minister of Norway.

Begins the Second Johan Ludwig Mowinckel Government in Oslo and serves as Prime Minister of Norway.

Speaks on factory regulation and working conditions during scrutiny of the Factories Bill.

Francos forces recapture Teruel & make a drive towards the Mediterranean

Challenges the government’s housing finance proposals in the Commons.

Appointed Minister of Security

With George Volkoff, shows that sufficiently massive neutron cores have no static equilibrium, helping establish the theoretical path toward gravitational collapse.

Appointed Commander of the 7th Panzer Division with the rank of Major General

Appointed Commander of the 7th Panzer Division with the rank of Major General

Appointed Commander of the 7th Panzer Division with the rank of Major General

Britain breaks off relations with Romania

Churchill goes on the air to rally morale & reorganises his Cabinet

Singapore surrenders to the Japanese

Singapore surrenders to Yamashita, 130,000 British are taken prisoner

Singapore falls to Japan and about 130,000 Allied personnel become prisoners.

Singapore surrenders to Yamashita, 130,000 British are taken prisoner

Reaches the Oder-Neisse line

Reaches the Oder-Neisse line

Appointed President of Venezuela

The Iron and Steel Corporation assumes ownership of major iron and steel companies.

Appointed President of Finland

Bissell reviews Cuban civilian-military relations and links between exile political leaders, the strike force and Joint Chiefs staff.

Adopts the Maple Leaf flag as Canada national flag.

Congress remains the largest party in the 1967 general election but suffers major losses nationally and in several states.

A civil rights protest staged at a white-only bowling alley in Orangeburg, South Carolina is broken up by highway patrolmen; 3 college students are killed

A civil rights protest staged at a white-only bowling alley in Orangeburg, South Carolina is broken up by highway patrolmen; 3 college students are killed

Britain replaces pounds, shillings and pence with a decimal currency of one hundred new pence.

Oversees decimalisation as Britain changes its currency system.

Decimal coins replace shillings & pence, known as "D-Day"

Releases the single, "What Is Life?" in America

Resigns to become Chairman of the Committee to re-elect the President

Appointed President of Ecuador

Appointed President of Ecuador after the 1972 military coup

Releases Rebel Rebel, a guitar-driven single that becomes one of his last major glam rock statements.

Khmer Rouge reorganize as part of anti-Vietnam resistance networks

The Foreign Minister's of the Organisation of the Islamic Conference deplore the invasion and demand Soviet withdrawal at a meeting in Islamabad

The Foreign Minister's of the Organisation of the Islamic Conference deplore the invasion and demand Soviet withdrawal at a meeting in Islamabad

The Foreign Minister's of the Organisation of the Islamic Conference deplore the invasion and demand Soviet withdrawal at a meeting in Islamabad

The Foreign Minister's of the Organisation of the Islamic Conference deplore the invasion and demand Soviet withdrawal at a meeting in Islamabad

Tshisekedi and other parliamentarians establish the Union for Democracy and Social Progress.

The last Russian troops leave Afghanistan

The last Russian troops withdraw from Afghanistan. Russian withdrawal signifies a Mujahadin victory. 14,454 Russians had died in the conflict

The last Russian troops withdraw from Afghanistan

The last Soviet troops leave Afghanistan while Najibullah's government remains in power.

Directs Das schreckliche Madchen.

Violence in Bangladesh kept the election turnout to about 15%. Opposition leaders filed no candidates and claimed that the results showed that Prime Minister Zia had lost authority to rule

Appointed Prime Minister of Bangladesh

Announces his campaign for a second presidential term while his approval ratings remain low.

Appointed Minister of Defence

Harbaugh helps replace a degraded Fine Guidance Sensor and upgrade Hubble's precision pointing capability.

Tanner helps replace a failed Engineering and Science Tape Recorder during the second servicing mission.

Voters reject the draft constitution supported by the government.

Voters reject the government's proposed new constitution.

At least 1 million demonstrate against the war in Iraq

Anti-war protests are held, the largest of their kind since the Vietnam War took place with 6-10 million people in over 60 countries around the world

Addresses one of Britain's largest anti-war demonstrations.

Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez wins his bid to end presidential term limits in his country, thus allowing him to run for reelection

Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez wins his bid to end presidential term limits in his country, thus allowing him to run for reelection

Demonstrations against the government begin after the arrest of a human-rights lawyer.

PSLV-C37 deploys 104 satellites in one mission during A. S. Kiran Kumar's tenure as ISRO chairman.

Moves to reprogram Pentagon funds for border wall.

Declares a national emergency to seek funding for a border wall.

Declares a national emergency to secure border wall funding.

Tshisekedi appoints Sama Lukonde to form a new parliamentary government.

Expands drone procurement for Ukraine's armed forces.

Russian forces intensify counterattacks in Kursk Oblast.

Birth of Sigismund son of Charles IV and Elizabeth of Pomerania

Sigismund is born and later becomes King of Hungary Bohemia and Germany

Birth of Ernest Henry Shackleton, County Clare, Ireland

Birth of Robert Ley

Birth of Kinks drummer Mick Avory.

Birth of Ali Campbell, later lead singer of UB40.

Lee became a father when Marina gave birth to their daughter June Lee in Minsk on February 15, 1962.

Death of Oswy, Mercia reasserts itself as a power

Death of Ferdinand II

Death of James Compton, 3rd Earl of Northampton

Death of Alexander Borodin

Death of Hugh Caswall Tremenheere Dowding

Defeated by Cromwell in the final Battle of the campaign