February 21 in History

Opening day of the trial. Joan of Arc is tried at a trial headed by Richard de Beauchamp for heresy & blasphemy

Parliament grants Henry VIII subsidies, tonnage, poundage & wool duties for life

Excommunicated by Pope Julius II for failing to back the Holy League against France

The elecoral assembly of 700 select Michael as the new Tsar

Monck secured the readmission of members excluded during Pride's Purge.

The secluded members return to Parliament and Monck is confirmed as commander in chief.

Monck restores the members excluded in Pride's Purge, allowing them to outvote the Rump.

William III of Orange breaks his collarbone in the riding accident that precedes his final decline in health.

William III of Orange suffers a serious riding accident near Hampton Court when his horse falls, breaking his collarbone.

French troops occupy Brussels

French troops occupy Brussels

Lands on Anvers Island and reports a more extensive coastline, naming the region Graham Land after Sir James Graham, First Lord of the Admiralty

Biscoe lands on Anvers Island and claims to have sighted the mainland of the Antarctic continent

A more extensive coastline is spotted, surmising again that he had encountered a continent, Biscoe names the area "Graham Land", after First Lord of the Admiralty Sir James Graham

Marx and Engels publish the Manifesto of the Communist Party.

Pope Pius IX grants a constitution to the Papal States, which was both unexpected and surprising considering the historical recalcitrance of the Papacy

Pope Pius IX grants a constitution to the Papal States, which was both unexpected and surprising considering the historical recalcitrance of the Papacy

Receives command of the British expeditionary army.

Writes on British government policy toward imprisoned Irish Fenians.

Defends the Suez Canal share purchase in the House of Commons as a necessary imperial measure.

Yaqub Khan becomes amir after the death of Sher Ali.

Einstein becomes a Swiss citizen after having been stateless since 1896.

After the election the Liberals agree to a suspensory veto for the House of Lords. Admits to the Commons Edward VII had not promised extra peers to reform the Lords

After the election the Liberals agree to a suspensory veto for the House of Lords

Opposes Irish Home Rule

Opposes Irish Home Rule

Opposes Irish Home Rule

Appointed Party Leader of the Ulster Unionists

Liberals agree to a suspensory veto for the House of Lords.

Introduces the Parliament Bill to the House of Commons. Admits that Edward VII had not promised to create new Peers to reform the Lords

Introduces the Parliament Bill in the House of Commons.

Flamethrowers are used for the 1st time at the Battle of Verdun

Reviews the manpower position of the armed forces as conscription begins to operate.

Trotsky requests French military help. German & Austrian troops resume their offensive against Russia

Trotsky requests French military help during the invasion of Russia

Assassinates the Prime Minister of the Bavarian Republic, Kurt Eisner

Triggers off revolution leading to 5 coups & 5 Governments in 70 days

Nasrullah Khan is proclaimed amir after Habibullah's assassination.

Appointed Minister of War

Great Britain grants Egypt independence

Great Britain grants Egypt independence

Great Britain grants Egypt independence

Trotsky is refused political asylum in France

The government announced the February Program, promising administrative modernization, public health measures, education, and economic reform.

Raises the worsening European situation following German pressure on Austria.

Works with Randall on the Birmingham cavity magnetron for centimetric radar.

Works with Randall on the resonant cavity magnetron at Birmingham.

Builds a high-power cavity magnetron at Birmingham for centimetric radar.

Works on the high-power cavity magnetron for centimetric radar.

Receives command of the German invasion of Norway.

Falkenhorst is given command of the ground forces for the planned invasion of Norway and Denmark.

Directs the western film Western Union.

Jodl argues that Germany should not renounce the Geneva Convention because doing so would bring greater disadvantages.

Informs the US Britain cannot afford to keep troops in Greece and will withdraw by April

The Czechoslovak Communist Party is ordered to take power in Prague

The Czechoslovak Communist Party is ordered to take power in Prague

Identity cards are abolished

Visits Khruschev to "have an exploratory exchange of views on world problems"

Begins the Kampmann Premiership in Copenhagen and serves as Prime Minister of Denmark.

Assassinates Malcolm X

Assassinated addressing a rally at the Audobon Ballroom, Harlem, on the first day of National Brotherhood Week

The 18 nation disarmament conference re-opens in Geneva

Conducts secret talks with Le Duc Tho

Meets Henry Kissinger in secret negotiations

Begins secret talks in Paris with Le Duc Tho

21-28 February, visits China to restore relations with its Government

Israeli fighter planes shoot down a Libyan Airlines jet over the Sinai Desert, killing 108 people

Speaks during debate on immigration rules and challenges government policy in the House of Commons.

Israeli fighter planes shoot down a Libyan Airlines jet over the Sinai Desert, killing 108 people

Signs an agreement intended to restore peace and national reconciliation

Represents the Pathet Lao side in the peace settlement

Appointed Foreign Minister

Miners vote in favour of a 9.3 per cent pay rise

Reagan says his goal is to topple the Sandanista Government

Resigns as Party Leader of the Peronist Party

The Republic of Namibia becomes an independent state. South Africa withdraws from Namibia

The Republic of Namibia becomes an independent state

The Republic of Namibia becomes an independent state. South Africa withdraws from Namibia

Supports deployment of a United Nations protection force in former Yugoslavia.

Faces international peacekeeping deployment amid the Yugoslav conflicts.

Diouf wins another presidential term

Bowersox commands Discovery's return after Hubble is released as a more capable observatory following Servicing Mission 2.

Vajpayee and Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif sign the Lahore Declaration after Vajpayee's bus journey to Pakistan.

Nawaz Sharif and Atal Bihari Vajpayee sign the Lahore Declaration.

Chairs the fourth session of UNMOVIC Commissioners.

Inspection planning continues despite the absence of access to Iraq.

Blair says as many as 1,600 of the 7,100 troops stationed in southern Iraq will leave in the next few months. "What all this means is not that Basra is how we want it to be, but it does mean that the next chapter in Basras history can be written

Voyager 2's planetary radio astronomy experiment is switched off to conserve spacecraft power.

The radio play is broadcast on BBC Radio 4, with actress Maggie Smith reprising her role of Miss Shepherd and Alan Bennett playing himself

The radio play is broadcast on BBC Radio 4, with actress Maggie Smith reprising her role of Miss Shepherd and Alan Bennett playing himself

The vote formalizes the post-Saleh political transition.

Is elected president in the transitional election.

Leaves house arrest in Sanaa and reaches Aden.

Withdraws his resignation and reasserts presidential authority.

Announces support for the campaign to leave the European Union.

Backs Leave, becoming one of the campaign's highest-profile Conservative figures.

Voters reject a constitutional amendment allowing Morales to seek another consecutive term.

Is murdered with Martina Kusnirova.

Sagintayev leaves the prime ministership

Askar Mamin becomes Prime Minister

Reaches a temporary technical understanding with Iran allowing necessary verification and monitoring activities to continue.

Recognizes the Donetsk and Luhansk separatist republics before the full invasion.

Directs federal response after the Ohio train derailment.

Announces Russia will suspend participation in the New START nuclear arms treaty

Announces suspension of Russian participation in New START while stating that Russia will continue observing the treaty's central numerical limits.

Prince Edmund, another son of Henry VII and Elizabeth of York, is born at Greenwich.

Mugabe is born in Matibiri village near Kutama Mission in the Zvimba District northeast of Salisbury in Southern Rhodesia

Birth of Mark McManus

Birth of Jean-Jacques Burnel, later bassist, vocalist and founding member of The Stranglers.

Death of Julius II

Death of William Somerset

Triggers off revolution leading to 5 coups & 5 Governments in 70 days

Death of Malcolm X, assassinated

Death of Mikhail Sholokov

Death of John Edward Thaw

The British are defeated by a French fleet

The British are defeated by a French fleet

Commands a fleet which is defeated, Mathews is court-matialled & dismissed

Sher Singh Attariwalla's army is decisively defeated at Gujarat, ending organized Sikh resistance in the Second Sikh War.

Flamethrowers are used for the 1st time at the Battle of Verdun. Decides "to bleed France white" by concentrating on a historically sensitive area. 1st day to "bleed the French white", 1200 German artillery guns open fire

Crowned & annointed in the Abbey Church of Holyrood at the age of six