On February 3
No pivotal events are recorded on exactly February 3 in the Human Saga — here is the surrounding week in history.
This week in history (Jan 31 – Feb 6)
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 6 February 1840 Captain William Hobson, representing the British Crown, and some 43 to 46 Māori rangatira (chiefs) signed the Treaty of Waitangi (Te Tiriti o Waitangi) in the Bay of Islands, after a day and night of debate among…
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.
The Representation of the People Act 1918 granted parliamentary voting rights to women in Britain for the first time, alongside near-universal male suffrage.
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.