On February 8
No pivotal events are recorded on exactly February 8 in the Human Saga — here is the surrounding week in history.
This week in history (Feb 5 – Feb 11)
Between 29 January and 10 February 1258, a vast Ilkhanate Mongol army led by Hulagu Khan, grandson of Genghis Khan, besieged and stormed Baghdad.
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…
On 11 February 1889 Emperor Meiji promulgated the Constitution of the Empire of Japan, presented as a gift bestowed by the sovereign on his subjects.
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…
After 18 days of mass protests centred on Cairo's Tahrir Square, Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak resigned on 11 February 2011, ending nearly 30 years of autocratic rule.
On 9 February 1964 the Beatles made their first live appearance on American television on The Ed Sullivan Show, performing for an audience estimated at more than 73 million viewers, a record for U.S. television at the time.