February 5 in History

David I is granted Carlisle and Doncaster, with Carlisle went much of Cumberland and the honour of Lancaster

David I is granted Carlisle and Doncaster, with Carlisle went much of Cumberland and the honour of Lancaster

Captures Mantes

Opening of Henry VIIIs 3rd Parliament

Signs the Covenant enabling him to take up the position of Lieutenant Colonel

Signs the Covenant enabling him to take up the position of Lieutenant Colonel

The Scottish Parliament proclaimed Charles II while England remained a republic.

Completes peace settlements after the Dutch war.

An early peace settlement begins restoring Swedish positions lost during the conflict.

An early peace settlement begins restoring Swedish positions lost during the conflict.

Disappointed by the strength of support James fails to establish himself as a credible leader he soon fell ill with fever, his illness made more severe by the icy Scottish winter & instead of going through with plans for a coronation at Scone, he returns to France, sailing from Montrose

French & Bavarian armies fail to assist Prussia. 1st day of the invasion of Bohemia

The Nawab marches again on Calcutta but is surprised by a dawn attack by the British

Siraj-ud-Daulah advances on Calcutta but is checked by an East India Company dawn attack.

Captures all of Minorca except for Port Mahon

Robespierre linked republican government with civic virtue in a major report on political morality.

French corps under Ney decisively defeat a Prussian army during Napoleon's Friedland campaign

The Regency Act is passed making the Prince of Wales Prince Regent

The Regency Act is passed making the Prince of Wales Prince Regent

The Regency Act is passed making the Prince of Wales Prince Regent

Appointed Regent for George III during his bout of insanity

The Crown Prince Jean Bernadotte becomes the first Bernadotte King

After Gordons death Gladstone resigns

The Spanish sink the US battleship Maine which triggers off the Spanish-American War

The Republican Government retreats into France. Government politicians begin fleeing to France

Government politicians flee to France

Supports Allied plans to intervene in Norway and threaten the Narvik ore route.

Supports wider Allied planning for intervention in Scandinavia.

Considers intervention in Scandinavia during the Winter War crisis.

The council considers intervention in Norway including a landing at Narvik

Attends the council as Allied leaders discuss control of Swedish iron ore routes.

Attends the council meeting considering aid to Finland against Soviet Russia.

Supports measures affecting Norway and Swedish iron ore traffic.

Supports Allied consideration of Norway and Swedish iron ore routes.

Presses for stronger Allied action in Scandinavia.

Participates in discussions on Allied Scandinavian intervention.

Lands the Afrika Korps in Libya to support the Italians

Lands the Afrika Korps in Libya to support the Italians

Leaves the Foreign Ministry and is appointed Italian ambassador to the Holy See.

Supports a significant French role in postwar German occupation and control arrangements.

Discusses Germany's postwar treatment and economic questions with Stettinius and Molotov.

Reviews economic questions concerning defeated Germany during the foreign ministers' luncheon.

Presses the Allies to settle principles for extracting reparations from defeated Germany.

Participates in tripartite military discussion of German forces in Norway and future Allied operations.

Participates in Joint Chiefs discussion of occupation zones in Germany and Soviet participation against Japan.

Joins the American chiefs in examining military implications of possible Soviet participation in the Pacific war.

Participates in debate over German dismemberment, occupation zones, France and reparations.

Takes part in military talks on coordinating Allied offensives, liaison and the expected end of the German war.

Death of Johannes Blaskowitz, commits suicide. Commits suicide after being indicted as a war criminal before being brought to trial

Commits suicide after being indicted as a war criminal before being brought to trial

The Government falls over the question of North-African insurgency

Makes maiden speech in Parliament

Wang Hongwen helps proclaim the Shanghai Commune before it is replaced by a revolutionary committee

Helps prepare Antares for descent after procedures are developed to bypass a faulty abort-switch signal.

Helps deploy the Apollo Lunar Surface Experiments Package during the first Fra Mauro excursion.

Helps deploy the Apollo Lunar Surface Experiments Package during the first surface EVA.

Explores Fra Mauro with Shepard during the mission’s first lunar surface excursion.

Walks on the Moon with Shepard during Apollo 14.

Pilots Antares to the most precise Apollo lunar landing achieved to that point.

Pilots Kitty Hawk while Apollo 14 explores Fra Mauro.

Pilots Antares to a precise landing in the Fra Mauro highlands.

Attempts high-resolution lunar photography from Kitty Hawk while Shepard and Mitchell explore Fra Mauro.

The United States agrees to sell 42 F-4 Phantom jets to Israel

Mariner 10 uses Venus for the first interplanetary gravity assist, placing the spacecraft on course for its first Mercury encounter.

Khomeini appoints Bazargan as interim prime minister and calls on Iranians to support him

Khomeini appoints Bazargan as prime minister of the provisional revolutionary government

Khomeini backs Bazargan's provisional government while revolutionary institutions grow in power

Khomeini appoints Bazargan and supports a provisional revolutionary government

Khomeini appoints Mehdi Bazargan as interim prime minister and orders supporters to obey him

Bazargan is appointed prime minister of the provisional revolutionary government

Former Nazi Gestapo official Klaus Barbie brought to trial

Responds to growing United States criticism of the military government’s human rights record.

Free movement between Spain & Gibraltar returns

The US halts its loan to Chile due to human rights abuse

Faces increasing international financial and diplomatic pressure over human rights violations.

The US halts its loan to Chile due to human rights abuse

Russia announces that all but a small rear-guard contingent of its troops had left Afghanistan

Joni Mitchel is inducted into the Canadian Hall of Fame

Admits affair with secretary

Calls for international action after civilians are killed at Markale market.

Commands UNPROFOR as international pressure increases around Sarajevo.

Tom Clancy signs agreement to purchase Minnesota Vikings for slightly more than $200 million

I participates in parliamentary reform connected with Jordanian political and historical developments.

Powell presented evidence alleging that Iraq was actively producing chemical and biological weapons and had ties to al-Qaeda

Iran makes an offer of negotiation with the US that covers nuclear matters and Irans support for Palestinian groups resisting Israeli occupation, the offer is spurned by the Bush administration

His presentation to the United Nations Security Council contained a computer-generated image of a "mobile biological weapons laboratory.."

However, this information was based on claims of Rafid Ahmed Alwan al-Janabi, codenamed "Curveball", an Iraqi emigrant living in Germany who later admitted that his claims had been false.

On 5 February 2003, U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell addressed the United Nations General Assembly, continuing U.S. efforts to gain United Nations authorization for an invasion.

Fails to gain support from United Nations Security Council members France, Germany & Russia

Fails to gain support from United Nations Security Council members France, Germany & Russia

The Chemical Weapons Convention enters into force for Libya.

The Chemical Weapons Convention enters into force for Libya following its accession the previous month.

Iran says it will no longer allow snap inspections of its nuclear sites, after the United Nations nuclear watchdog vote to report Tehran to the Security Council

Iran says it will no longer allow snap inspections of its nuclear sites, after the United Nations nuclear watchdog vote to report Tehran to the Security Council

Iran says it will no longer allow snap inspections of its nuclear sites, after the United Nations nuclear watchdog vote to report Tehran to the Security Council

President Bush says the $2.9 trillion budget will eliminate the federal deficit by 2012 without increasing taxes

Competes with Hillary Clinton across multiple Super Tuesday Democratic contests

Brown helps secure agreement on devolving policing and justice powers to Northern Ireland.

New START enters into force after the United States and Russia exchange instruments of ratification.

Supports protesters opposing emergency ordinance changes.

Delivers State of the Union emphasising economic growth.

Acquitted by the Senate in his first impeachment trial.

Is acquitted by the Senate in his first impeachment trial.

The Libyan Political Dialogue Forum selects al-Menfi to lead the new Presidential Council.

The Libyan Political Dialogue Forum selects Dbeibah to form a unified interim government.

Smailov's government resigns before a new prime minister is appointed

Birth of Christian Gottlob Neefe, omposer, conductor & tutor of Beethoven

Birth of Karoly Kisfaludy

Birth of Johan Ludvig Runeberg

Birth of John Boyd Dunlop

Birth of John Carradine

Birth of Alan Hodgkin

Birth of Alex Harvey

Birth of John Guare, playwright

Present at the death of Charles II

Death of Johannes Blaskowitz, commits suicide

Death of Joseph Leo Mankiewicz

Death of actor Kirk Douglas.

French corps under Ney decisively defeat a Prussian army during Napoleon's Friedland campaign

De Meza abandons the Dannevirke and withdraws to Flensburg; 600 men are captured or killed, he is also forced to abandon important heavy artillery

Botha's Boer forces oppose Buller's renewed attempt to cross the Tugela and establish a bridgehead at Vaal Krantz.

Buller begins another attempt to cross the Tugela and outflank Boer positions at Vaal Krantz.

Traps a large number of Russian units, the line is closed with 26,000 Russians dead. Begins to attack the Russians in order to hold Rzhev & stop the Russian advance