Treaty of Durham
David I is granted Carlisle and Doncaster, with Carlisle went much of Cumberland and the honour of Lancaster
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February 5 in History
This permanent archive page contains 143 World History Database records for February 5, spanning 1136 to 2024. Recorded topics include Treaty of Durham; Capture of Mantes; Parliament.
Total: 143Events: 127Births: 8Deaths: 3Battles: 5Countries: 25
Events on February 5
Treaty of Durham
David I is granted Carlisle and Doncaster, with Carlisle went much of Cumberland and the honour of Lancaster
Capture of Mantes
Captures Mantes
Parliament
Opening of Henry VIIIs 3rd Parliament
Bachelor of Arts Degree
Hobbes receives his Bachelor of Arts degree after study at Magdalen Hall, Oxford.
Lieutenant
Signs the Covenant enabling him to take up the position of Lieutenant Colonel
Lieutenant
Signs the Covenant enabling him to take up the position of Lieutenant Colonel
Interregnum
The Scottish Parliament proclaimed Charles II while England remained a republic.
Peace of Nijmegen
Completes peace settlements after the Dutch war.
Treaty of Celle
An early peace settlement begins restoring Swedish positions lost during the conflict.
Treaty of Celle
An early peace settlement begins restoring Swedish positions lost during the conflict.
Invasion of Scotland
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
Invasion of Bohemia
French & Bavarian armies fail to assist Prussia. 1st day of the invasion of Bohemia
Siege of Calcutta
The Nawab marches again on Calcutta but is surprised by a dawn attack by the British
Siege of Calcutta
Siraj-ud-Daulah advances on Calcutta but is checked by an East India Company dawn attack.
Capture of Minorca
Captures all of Minorca except for Port Mahon
Political Morality Report
Robespierre linked republican government with civic virtue in a major report on political morality.
Friedland Campaign Victory
French corps under Ney decisively defeat a Prussian army during Napoleon's Friedland campaign
Health of George III
The Regency Act is passed making the Prince of Wales Prince Regent
Legislation
The Regency Act is passed making the Prince of Wales Prince Regent
Legislation
The Regency Act is passed making the Prince of Wales Prince Regent
Regency
Appointed Regent for George III during his bout of insanity
Succession
The Crown Prince Jean Bernadotte becomes the first Bernadotte King
Siege of Khartoum
After Gordons death Gladstone resigns
Siege of Havana
The Spanish sink the US battleship Maine which triggers off the Spanish-American War
Exile of Francisco Paulino Hermenegildo Franco-Bahamonde
The Republican Government retreats into France. Government politicians begin fleeing to France
Exile of Juan Negrin
Government politicians flee to France
Barttle of Narvik
Supports Allied plans to intervene in Norway and threaten the Narvik ore route.
Narvik Expedition Plan
Supports wider Allied planning for intervention in Scandinavia.
Supreme War Council
Considers intervention in Scandinavia during the Winter War crisis.
Supreme War Council
The council considers intervention in Norway including a landing at Narvik
Supreme War Council
Attends the council as Allied leaders discuss control of Swedish iron ore routes.
Supreme War Council
Attends the council meeting considering aid to Finland against Soviet Russia.
Supreme War Council
Supports Allied consideration of Norway and Swedish iron ore routes.
Supreme War Council
Supports measures affecting Norway and Swedish iron ore traffic.
Supreme War Council
Presses for stronger Allied action in Scandinavia.
Supreme War Council
Participates in discussions on Allied Scandinavian intervention.
Afrika Korps
Lands the Afrika Korps in Libya to support the Italians
Invasion of Libya
Lands the Afrika Korps in Libya to support the Italians
Ambassador to the Holy See
Leaves the Foreign Ministry and is appointed Italian ambassador to the Holy See.
Argues for French Role in Germany
Supports a significant French role in postwar German occupation and control arrangements.
Foreign Ministers Discuss German Treatment
Discusses Germany's postwar treatment and economic questions with Stettinius and Molotov.
Foreign Ministers Economic Discussion on Germany
Reviews economic questions concerning defeated Germany during the foreign ministers' luncheon.
Presses German Reparations Question
Presses the Allies to settle principles for extracting reparations from defeated Germany.
Reviews German Forces in Norway
Participates in tripartite military discussion of German forces in Norway and future Allied operations.
Reviews German Occupation Zones
Participates in Joint Chiefs discussion of occupation zones in Germany and Soviet participation against Japan.
Reviews Soviet Entry against Japan
Joins the American chiefs in examining military implications of possible Soviet participation in the Pacific war.
Second Plenary Germany Debate
Participates in debate over German dismemberment, occupation zones, France and reparations.
Tripartite Offensive Coordination
Takes part in military talks on coordinating Allied offensives, liaison and the expected end of the German war.
High Command Trial Opens
The High Command Case opened against senior German commanders and staff officers.
Resignation of Pierre Mendes
The Government falls over the question of North-African insurgency
Speech
Makes maiden speech in Parliament
Shanghai Commune
Wang Hongwen helps proclaim the Shanghai Commune before it is replaced by a revolutionary committee
Apollo 14 Abort Switch Workaround
Helps prepare Antares for descent after procedures are developed to bypass a faulty abort-switch signal.
Apollo 14 Active Seismic Geophone Line
Deploys the geophone line used by the active seismic experiment to record vibrations produced by controlled impacts on the lunar surface.
Apollo 14 Active Seismic Thumper Survey
Operates the active seismic experiment's thumper along the geophone line to generate signals used to investigate shallow lunar structure.
Apollo 14 ALSEP Deployment
Helps deploy the Apollo Lunar Surface Experiments Package during the first Fra Mauro excursion.
Apollo 14 ALSEP Deployment
Helps deploy the Apollo Lunar Surface Experiments Package during the first surface EVA.
Apollo 14 ALSEP Fuel Cask Retrieval
Retrieves the plutonium fuel cask used to power the Apollo Lunar Surface Experiments Package radioisotope thermoelectric generator.
Apollo 14 ALSEP Traverse to Deployment Site
Pulls the Modular Equipment Transporter westward while carrying equipment to the selected experiment site about six hundred feet from Antares.
Apollo 14 Antares Sighting from Lunar Orbit
Uses Kitty Hawk's optics to locate Antares and its shadow on the lunar surface while passing above the Fra Mauro landing region.
Apollo 14 Antares Systems Activation
Activates the Antares lunar module systems with Shepard and deploys the landing gear before separation for the Fra Mauro descent.
Apollo 14 Antares Undocking
Separates Antares from Kitty Hawk on the twelfth lunar revolution and begins independent preparations for descent to Fra Mauro.
Apollo 14 Comprehensive Sample Site
Marks a comprehensive sampling area in the lunar soil and collects geological material near the deployed scientific instruments.
Apollo 14 Contingency Sample Collection
Collects a contingency sample soon after stepping onto the Moon so material would be available even if an emergency liftoff became necessary.
Apollo 14 First EVA
Explores Fra Mauro with Shepard during the mission’s first lunar surface excursion.
Apollo 14 First EVA Sample Stowage
Returns to Antares with Mitchell and packs lunar samples and equipment before closing out the first surface excursion.
Apollo 14 First Step at Fra Mauro
Descends the Antares ladder and becomes the fifth person to walk on the Moon during the first Apollo 14 lunar surface excursion.
Apollo 14 Flag Deployment
Plants the United States flag with Mitchell and photographs the display as part of the first Apollo 14 lunar surface excursion.
Apollo 14 Kitty Hawk Orbit Circularization
Fires Kitty Hawk's service propulsion engine after undocking to return the command module to a circular orbit about sixty miles above the Moon.
Apollo 14 Landing
Walks on the Moon with Shepard during Apollo 14.
Apollo 14 Landing
Pilots Antares to the most precise Apollo lunar landing achieved to that point.
Apollo 14 Landing Radar Signal Recovery
Helps restore a usable landing-radar signal by cycling the appropriate circuit breakers during Antares' powered descent toward Fra Mauro.
Apollo 14 Laser Ranging Retroreflector Deployment
Places the laser ranging retroreflector west of the ALSEP site so laser pulses from Earth can be reflected for precise lunar-distance measurements.
Apollo 14 Lunar Orbit
Pilots Kitty Hawk while Apollo 14 explores Fra Mauro.
Apollo 14 Lunar Orbit Plane Change
Performs a nineteen-second plane-change maneuver in Kitty Hawk to improve alignment for the later rendezvous with Antares.
Apollo 14 Lunar Surface Egress
Climbs down the Antares ladder several minutes after Shepard and joins him on the lunar surface at the Fra Mauro landing site.
Apollo 14 Modular Equipment Transporter Deployment
Removes and unfolds the two-wheeled Modular Equipment Transporter that will carry instruments, tools and samples during the lunar traverses.
Apollo 14 S-Band Antenna Setup
Sets up the S-band dish antenna near Antares to improve communications between the Fra Mauro surface crew and Earth.
Apollo 14 Solar Wind Experiment Deployment
Deploys the Solar Wind Composition foil experiment to collect particles from the solar wind for later return and laboratory analysis.
Apollo 14 Television Camera Setup
Removes the lunar television camera from Antares and places it on a tripod so Mission Control and viewers can follow surface operations.
Fra Mauro Landing
Pilots Antares to a precise landing in the Fra Mauro highlands.
Hycon Camera Operations
Attempts high-resolution lunar photography from Kitty Hawk while Shepard and Mitchell explore Fra Mauro.
Agreement on Sell 42 F-4 Phantom jets to Israel
The United States agrees to sell 42 F-4 Phantom jets to Israel
Mariner 10 Gravity Assist
Mariner 10 uses Venus for the first interplanetary gravity assist, placing the spacecraft on course for its first Mercury encounter.
Interim Government
Khomeini appoints Bazargan as interim prime minister and calls on Iranians to support him
Interim Government
Khomeini appoints Bazargan as prime minister of the provisional revolutionary government
Interim Government
Khomeini appoints Bazargan and supports a provisional revolutionary government
Interim Government
Khomeini appoints Mehdi Bazargan as interim prime minister and orders supporters to obey him
Interim Government
Khomeini backs Bazargan's provisional government while revolutionary institutions grow in power
Prime Minister of Iran
Bazargan is appointed prime minister of the provisional revolutionary government
Trial
Former Nazi Gestapo official Klaus Barbie brought to trial
Foreign Policy Pressure
Responds to growing United States criticism of the military government’s human rights record.
Free movement between Spain & Gibraltar returns
Free movement between Spain & Gibraltar returns
Government
The US halts its loan to Chile due to human rights abuse
International Human Rights Pressure
Faces increasing international financial and diplomatic pressure over human rights violations.
Politics
The US halts its loan to Chile due to human rights abuse
Invasion of Afghanistan
Russia announces that all but a small rear-guard contingent of its troops had left Afghanistan
Award
Joni Mitchel is inducted into the Canadian Hall of Fame
Scandal
Admits affair with secretary
Markale Market Attack
Calls for international action after civilians are killed at Markale market.
Markale Market Attack
Commands UNPROFOR as international pressure increases around Sarajevo.
Purchase of Minnesota Vikings
Tom Clancy signs agreement to purchase Minnesota Vikings for slightly more than $200 million
Parliamentary Reform
I participates in parliamentary reform connected with Jordanian political and historical developments.
Al-Qaeda
Powell presented evidence alleging that Iraq was actively producing chemical and biological weapons and had ties to al-Qaeda
Arms Control Talks
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
Invasion of Iraq
Fails to gain support from United Nations Security Council members France, Germany & Russia
Invasion of Iraq
His presentation to the United Nations Security Council contained a computer-generated image of a "mobile biological weapons laboratory.."
Invasion of Iraq
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.
Invasion of Iraq
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.
UN Security Council
Fails to gain support from United Nations Security Council members France, Germany & Russia
Chemical Weapons Convention Enters Force
The Chemical Weapons Convention enters into force for Libya.
Libya Joins Chemical Weapons Convention
The Chemical Weapons Convention enters into force for Libya following its accession the previous month.
Government Report
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
Nuclear Power
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
Report on 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
Economy of USA
President Bush says the $2.9 trillion budget will eliminate the federal deficit by 2012 without increasing taxes
Super Tuesday
Competes with Hillary Clinton across multiple Super Tuesday Democratic contests
Hillsborough Castle Agreement
Brown helps secure agreement on devolving policing and justice powers to Northern Ireland.
New START Enters Force
New START enters into force after the United States and Russia exchange instruments of ratification.
Anti-Corruption Protests
Supports protesters opposing emergency ordinance changes.
State of the Union 2019
Delivers State of the Union emphasising economic growth.
First Impeachment Acquittal
Acquitted by the Senate in his first impeachment trial.
First Impeachment Acquittal
Is acquitted by the Senate in his first impeachment trial.
Selection as Presidential Council President
The Libyan Political Dialogue Forum selects al-Menfi to lead the new Presidential Council.
Selection as Prime Minister-Designate
The Libyan Political Dialogue Forum selects Dbeibah to form a unified interim government.
Premiership Ends
Smailov's government resigns before a new prime minister is appointed
Births on February 5
Birth of Christian Gottlob Neefe
Birth of Christian Gottlob Neefe, omposer, conductor & tutor of Beethoven
Birth of Karoly Kisfaludy
Birth of Karoly Kisfaludy
Birth of Johan Ludvig Runeberg
Birth of Johan Ludvig Runeberg
Birth of John Boyd Dunlop
Birth of John Boyd Dunlop
Birth of John Carradine
Birth of John Carradine
Birth of Alan Hodgkin
Birth of Alan Hodgkin
Birth of Alex Harvey
Birth of Alex Harvey
Birth of John Guare
Birth of John Guare, playwright
Deaths on February 5
Death of James Scott
Present at the death of Charles II
Death of Joseph Leo Mankiewicz
Death of Joseph Leo Mankiewicz
Death of Kirk Douglas
Death of actor Kirk Douglas.
Battles on February 5
Battle of Waltersdorf
French corps under Ney decisively defeat a Prussian army during Napoleon's Friedland campaign
Battle of Konigshugel
De Meza abandons the Dannevirke and withdraws to Flensburg; 600 men are captured or killed, he is also forced to abandon important heavy artillery
Battle of Vaal Krantz
Botha's Boer forces oppose Buller's renewed attempt to cross the Tugela and establish a bridgehead at Vaal Krantz.
Battle of Vaal Krantz
Buller begins another attempt to cross the Tugela and outflank Boer positions at Vaal Krantz.
Battle of Rzhev
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