On February 1
No pivotal events are recorded on exactly February 1 in the Human Saga — here is the surrounding week in history.
This week in history (Jan 29 – Feb 4)
On 30 January 1933 President Hindenburg appointed Adolf Hitler chancellor at the head of a coalition government. The Nazis moved swiftly to entrench a dictatorship.
On 2 February 962, Pope John XII crowned Otto I of Germany as emperor at Old St Peter's Basilica in Rome, reviving the Western imperial title that had lapsed for nearly four decades since the decline of the Carolingian line.
On 31 January 1609 the municipal authorities of Amsterdam established the Amsterdamsche Wisselbank, or Bank of Amsterdam, an exchange bank created to bring order to the chaotic monetary conditions of the early Dutch Republic, where…
On 30 January 1649 Charles I, king of England, Scotland and Ireland, was beheaded outside the Banqueting House at Whitehall in London, following his conviction for high treason by a High Court of Justice convened by the Rump Parliament.
Fought between 1846 and 1848, the Mexican–American War grew out of the United States' 1845 annexation of Texas and a disputed border on the Rio Grande, set against the expansionist ideology of Manifest Destiny.
On 30–31 January 1968, during the Vietnamese Lunar New Year (Tet) holiday, North Vietnamese forces and the Viet Cong launched a coordinated surprise assault on more than 100 cities, towns, and military installations across South Vietnam…
On 4 February 2004 Harvard sophomore Mark Zuckerberg, with roommates Eduardo Saverin, Andrew McCollum, Dustin Moskovitz and Chris Hughes, launched 'Thefacebook', a social networking website initially restricted to Harvard students.
The Ara Pacis Augustae ('Altar of Augustan Peace') was consecrated in Rome on 30 January 9 BCE, after being commissioned by the Senate in 13 BCE to mark Augustus's safe return from campaigns in Gaul and Hispania.