On February 4
On February 4, the Human Saga records one pivotal event: Facebook launches, accelerating the social media era (2004).
On this day
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.
Also this week in history (Feb 1 – Feb 7)
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 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.
Signed at Maastricht in the Netherlands on 7 February 1992 by the twelve member states of the European Communities and entering into force on 1 November 1993, the Treaty on European Union created the European Union as a deeper political…