The February 24th is the 55e Jour of the Année of the Gregorian Calendrier. There remain 310 days before the end of the year (311 so bissextile).

Events

Before 1

  •    -45: 45 av. J. - C.: Jules César implements new a Calendrier, which one will call thereafter Calendrier Julien, in which he adds, every four years, one day after that of February 24th, that he names “sixth day before the Calendes of March” or “bissextus” or “(a) sextillis” (twice sixth), from where the name of Leap year given to the year which comprises this additional day.

1 with 1600

  •    848: Charles the Bald person leaves the Île-de-France for Tours.

  • 1320 : Pursuant to a decision taken by the king Philippe V Length in June 1318, a stop of the Parliament prescribed, that the castles, grounds and rights, which had been the object of donations on behalf of Philippe III Bold the and of Philippe IV Beautiful the, will make return to the field of the crown.

  • 1382 : Beginning with Rouen of the riots known under the name of “ Révolte of Harelle ”, that Charles VI repressed hard by abolishing the commune of Rouen.

  • 1495 : The King de France Charles VIII between victorious in Naples, at the end of the campaign which it conducted since the previous year in Italy to make recognize its rights on the Royaume of Naples, based on the transfer made with his father, the king Louis XI, by Charles of Anjou, heir to his uncle Rene, king de Naples and of Sicily.

  • 1512 : Paris: Pierre Gringore, dramatic author and actor, makes represent with the theater of the “Children without Concern” the Play of the prince of Stupid and the mother Sotte , the political first Satire.

  • 1530 : Charles Quint is crowned emperor by the pope Clément VII, with Bologna in Italy. It is about the last crowning of a German emperor by sovereign pontiff.

  • 1540 : The emperor Charles Quint arrives in the town of Ghent, which had been raised against the archduchess Marie of Austria, his sister, controlling Netherlands, and alleviates the rebellion, while making hang a dozen middle-class man.

  • 1582 : Bubble of the pope Gregoire XIII instituting a reform of the calendar ( Gregorian Calendar ), to correct the delay accumulated (ten days) since the Council of Nicée, by removing ten days this year, like, to avoid a new delay in the future, three leap years every four hundred years.

  • 1585 : Schedule King de Suède Charles IX by which it introduces into his kingdom the use of the Gregorian Calendrier.

17th century

  • 1607 : Orfeo , opera of Claudio Monteverdi, is first opera represented with the ducal palate of Mantoue.

  • 1663 : Louis XIV, recently with the capacity, dissolves the Compagnie of the Hundred-Associates, which failed in its mission of ensuring the colonization of the News-France, and attaches the colony to the Crown.

18th century

  • 1777 : Portugal: With died of the king Joseph Ier, it is his/her daughter Marie Ière de Bragance who succeeds to him. The marquis de Pombal sees congédier.

  • 1791 : Paris: the king, who since December prepares his escape, made leave his sisters the February 21st. The emotion is large, the women besiege, this day, Tileries.

19th century

  • 1812 : Europe: signature of a military convention free-Prussian by whom the Prussia grants all facilitated of parking and provisioning to the Large army on the way towards the Russia, as well as the sending of an army corps of twenty thousand men.

  • 1821 : Mexico: The general Agustín de Iturbide proclaims independence.

  • 1826 : Burma: The Traité of Yandabo puts an end to the First War anglo-Burmese.

  • 1834 : Algeria: the general Desmichel sign, without the opinion of the French government, a treaty with the Berber chief Abd El-Kader which recognizes with this last the title of commander of the believers and sovereignty on the beylik of Oran, other than the towns of Oran, Arzew and Mostaganem.

  • 1848 :

    • Abdication of Louis-Philippe, king of the French: introduction of the second Republic.
    • Paris: Three days end insurrectionary (see the February 22nd 1848).
    • Riot with Rouen: the bridge of railroad says “bridge to the English” is set fire to by the rioters.

  • 1865 : Leipzig (Germany): appeared in the years 1840, the feminist movement is organized through the foundation of a Association. For the training of the women, which will become the October 18th the General association of the German women , of social democrat tendency.

  • 1866 : Romania: the policy of Land reform and secularization of the goods of the Church causes the dissatisfaction with the great landowners, who reverse the prince Cuza. To replace it, Bismarck and Napoleon III choose Charles-Frederic, cousin of king de Prusse, who takes the name of Carol Ier. It will reign until its death in 1914.

  • 1867 : Germany: opening of the Parliament constitutive of Germany of North. The Constitution of the Confédération of Germany of North envisages for the executive a federal presidium or the Prussia will exert its Hégémonie and a federal council where the representatives of all the States will sit.

  • 1875 : first constitutional law of the III {{E}} Republic relating to the organization of the Senate.

  • 1891 : Brazil: the constituent Assembly into force adopts a Constitution similar to that with the the United States: the president is elected for four years and two Rooms have the legislative power; a federation gathers the various States, which can adopt particular Constitutions provided that they do not contravene the federal provisions.

20th century

  • 1920: creation of the party Nazi in Germany: the “Deutsche Arbeiter Partei” ( DAP ) (Left Working German), started from Hitler, “Nazional Sozialistische Deutsche Arbeiter Partei is renamed” ( NSDAP ).

  • 1931 : Germany: the number of unemployed reaches the figure of 4.765.000 this day. Appointed chancellor in March 1930, the Christian-Democrat Brüning restricts the credit, decreases the wages, the rents and the prices, and raises of 5% the income tax.

  • 1938 : with Arlington, New Jersey, first industrial production of Nylon, for hairs of brush with teeth.

  • 1945 :

    • the American forces release Manila.
    • Egyptian the Prime Minister Ahmed Pasha is assassinated after having announced the declaration of war of its country to the Germany.

  • 1946 : the general Juan Peron is elected with the presidency of the Argentine

  • 1950 : the first direct one televised French television, whose realization is ensured by Claude Barma, is a retransmission of the part of Marivaux “ the Play of the love and chance ” since the Comédie-Française.

  • 1951 : after nine defeats and no one, the team of France of Rugby beats finally that of England by 11 to 3.
  • 1956: in the night of the 24 with the February 25th 1956, Nikita Khrouchtchev reads out report/ratio on the crimes of Stalin to the XX {{E}} congress of the Communist party of the USSR.
  • 1957 : André Dufraisse is world champion of cyclo-cross for the fourth time.
  • 1960 : The skier Guy Périllat is world champion of compound.
  • 1961 : Discovered of a cranium of one hominidé in the cave of Olduvai, in Tanzania.

  • 1962 :

    • Michel Jazy brings to 2 ' 21" 6 the world records of the 1.000 Mr.
    • a series of attacks make 25 dead with Algiers, for the majority Moslems.

  • 1966 : the Ghanaian president Kwame Krumah is reversed by a military coup d'etat, whereas it remains in China.

  • 1969: concert of Jimi Hendrix to the Royal Albert Hall located at southern Kensington in the center of London.

  • 1970 : a Avalanche makes 30 dead with Rechingen , in the south-west of the Suisse.

  • 1971 : takes a majority share in the French oil companies.

  • 1976 : The Eagles Their Greatest Hits becomes the first album of the history to being certified Disque of platinum.

  • 1983 : an American governmental commission declares that the internment with the the United States of 120.000 people of Japanese ascent during the war constitutes “ a serious injustice ” caused by warlike hysteria and racism.

  • 1987 : the Canadian astronomer Ian Sheldon locates the supernova Sanduleak in the Grand Cloud of Magellan, the first observable one of our Galaxie since 1667.

  • 1988 : the tenor Luciano Pavarotti is entitled to 165 recalls of the public of the Opéra of Berlin, which applauds it during 67 minutes for its role of Nemorini , in the opera the Elixir of love of Donizetti.

  • 1989 : hundreds of thousands of Japanese and the representatives of 163 countries pay an ultimate homage to the emperor Hirohito, deceased the last January 7th. The Funérailles one duration of more than 13 hours will have cost 75 million dollars the Japanese government.

  • 1991 : to the Kuwait, occupied by the Iraq, Canadian aviation carries out its first bombardment since the war 1939-45.

  • 1996 : Two small civil aircrafts belonging to an association of exiled cuban installed with the the United States are cut down by cuban hunting for broad of Havana, which shows them to have violated the national airspace.

  • 1998 :

    • the Twentieth Century Fox announces that the film “ Titanic ” is from now on number 1 with the box world office of all times, with receipts of more than 918 million estimated dollars. The record belonged up to that point to “ Jurassic Park ”.
    • with Cuba, Fidel Castro is re-elected for five years by the Parliament.

  • 2000 :

    • Eruption of the volcano Mayon with the Filipino , causing the escape of approximately 18.000 Filipino villagers obliged to leave their dwellings.
    • with Washington, the administration Clinton suspends the export of firearms towards the Canada.
    • the Safety advice of the United Nations approves a resolution envisaging the sending of a force of UNO in Democratic republic of Congo of 5.500 men, including 5.000 soldiers, charged to make respect the cease-fire of the July 10th 1999 ever respected.

21e century

  • 2001 :

    • with the Césars, the Taste of the others of Agnes Jaoui and Roland Bacri gains four trophies.
    • the Zapatist Under-commander Marcos and 23 rebellious leaders leave their clandestinity to carry out a walk for peace in the 12 States of the Mexico. They claim more autonomy for the Mexican Indians.

  • 2003 : a Seism of 6,3 or 6,8 degrees on the open scales of Richter shakes the West of the China and keep silent nearly 300 people.

  • 2004 :

    • a Earthquake makes a little less than 600 dead in the North-East of the Morocco in the area of Al-Hoceima.
    • Ayman al-Zawahiri, right-hand man Egyptian of Usama Bin Laden pronounces for the first time of the explicit threats against the France, in an audio cassette diffused on the chain Al-Arabiya based with Dubai, because of the prohibition of the Islamic Voile.

Births

Death

Celebrations

Festivals (First names)

Jean-Baptiste (for the churches of the East), Baptist, Baptistin, Iseline, Modeste, Modesty, Modesty, Ethelbert, Flavien, Flavian, Flaviane, Montan, Prétextat

Catholic and orthodoxe saints of the day

  • Invention of the chief of Holy Jean-Baptiste (1st S.), prophet and precursory
  • Éthelbert (king of Kent) or Albert († 616),
  • Flavien de Carthage († 259), martyr
  • Mathias (Apostle)
  • Modeste of Trier († 480), bishop confessor
  • Montan de Carthage († 259), and his/her companions, martyrs
  • Prétextat of Rouen († 586), bishop martyr,
  • Serge of Césarée de Cappadoce († 304), martyr
  • Vartan

Catholic saints of the day

Orthodoxe saints of the day

  • Érasme of the Caves of Kiev († 1160), confessor

See too

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