About February 28

February 28, 2025 is the 59th day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 306 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Friday.

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Pisces is the sun sign of a person born on this day. Amethyst is the modern birthstone for this month. Bloodstone is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.

According to the lunisolar Chinese calendar, there are 354 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.

What Happened On February 28

  • 202 BC –
    coronation ceremony of Liu Bang as Emperor Gaozu of Han takes place, initiating four centuries of the Han Dynasty’s rule over China
  • 1700 –
    Today is followed by March 1 in Sweden, thus creating the Swedish calendar.
  • 1710 –
    In the Battle of Helsingborg, 14,000 Danish invaders under Jørgen Rantzau are decisively defeated by an equally sized Swedish force under Magnus Stenbock.
  • 1784 –
    John Wesley charters the Methodist Church.
  • 1838 –
    Robert Nelson, leader of the Patriotes, proclaims the independence of Lower Canada (today Quebec)
  • 1854 –
    The Republican Party of the United States is organized in Ripon, Wisconsin.
  • 1870 –
    The Bulgarian Exarchate is established by decree of Sultan Abd-ul-Aziz of the Ottoman Empire.
  • 1900 –
    The Second Boer War: The 118-day “Siege of Ladysmith” is lifted.
  • 1914 –
    The Autonomous Republic of Northern Epirus is proclaimed in Gjirokastër, by the Greeks living in southern Albania.
  • 1928 –
    C.V. Raman discovers Raman effect.
  • 1940 –
    Basketball is televised for the first time (Fordham University vs. the University of Pittsburgh in Madison Square Garden).
  • 1954 –
    The first color television sets using the NTSC standard are offered for sale to the general public.
  • 1958 –
    A school bus in Floyd County, Kentucky hits a wrecker truck and plunges down an embankment into the rain-swollen Levisa Fork River. The driver and 26 children die in what remains the worst school bus accident in U.S. history.
  • 1972 –
    Sino-American relations: The United States and People’s Republic of China sign the Shanghai Communiqué.
  • 1991 –
    The first Gulf War ends.
  • 1993 –
    Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms agents raid the Branch Davidian church in Waco, Texas with a warrant to arrest the group’s leader David Koresh. Four BATF agents and five Davidians die in the initial raid, starting a 51-day standoff.
  • 1997 –
    An earthquake in northern Iran is responsible for about 3,000 deaths.
  • 1997 –
    An earthquake of magnitude 6.1 in Armenia and Azerbaijan kills around 1,100 people
  • 2001 –
    The Nisqually Earthquake measuring 6.8 on the Richter Scale hits the Nisqually Valley and the Seattle, Tacoma, and Olympia area of the U.S. state of Washington.
  • 2005 –
    A suicide bombing at a police recruiting centre in Al Hillah, Iraq kills 127.

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