12 February - Today in History - Important historical events happened on this day in India and World History
According to Gregory calendar, February 12 is the day number 43 in a given year. February 12 has a special significance in India and world history, because many such incidents have occurred on this day which have been recorded forever in the pages of history. Let's know some such important events which will increase your general knowledge. The facts collected will be as follows: People born on this day, demise of famous people, war treaty, freedom of any country, invention of new technologies, change of power, important National and International Day etc.
February 12 in History - Top Historical Events
| Year | Event / Incidence / Incident |
| 1541 | Spanish conquistador Pedro de Valdivia founded Santiago, today the capital of Chile, as Santiago del Nuevo Extremo. |
| 1719 | Oderlinge van 1719 UA, the oldest existing life insurance company in the Netherlands. |
| 1742 | The great Maratha diplomat Nana Phadnavis was born. |
| 1771 | Gustav III became king of Sweden. |
| 1771 | Gustav III became king of Sweden. |
| 1804 | Emanuel Kant, eminent philosopher and thinker of Germany, died at the age of 80. |
| 1809 | The 16th President of America, Abraham Lincoln, was born. |
| 1817 | The Argentine / Chilean Patriotic Army defeated the Spanish Army at the Battle of Chacabuco. |
| 1818 | On the first anniversary of its victory in the Battle of Chacabuco, Chile formally declared its independence from Spain. |
| 1818 | The South American country Chile gained independence from Spain. |
| 1818 | Chile declared its independence from Spain. |
| 1855 | Michigan State University in East Lansing, Michigan, was founded as the Agricultural College of the State of Michigan, the United States' first agricultural college. |
| 1871 | Charles Freer Andrews, a Christian missionary, educationist and social reformer in India, was born in Newcastle, England. |
| 1877 | American railway builders strike against wage reduction. |
| 1901 | Viceroy of India Lord Curzon built the new North-West Frontier Province in Punjab near the border of Afghanistan. |
| 1912 | Xinhai Revolution: Puyi, the last Emperor of China, abdicated under a deal brokered by military official and politician Yuan Shikai, formally replacing the Qing Dynasty with a new republic in China. |
| 1912 | China adopted the Gregorian calendar. |
| 1914 | Washington DC. In, the first stone of the Lincoln Memorial was laid. |
| 1928 | Gandhiji declared Satyagraha in Bardoli. |
| 1946 | Black United States Army veteran Isaac Woodard was severely beaten by a South Carolina police officer to the point that he lost his vision in both eyes, an incident that galvanized the Civil Rights Movement. |
| 1947 | French designer Christian Dior unveiled a 'New Look' that revolutionized women's dress and reestablished Paris as the center of the fashion world after World War II. |
| 1947 | The Sikhote-Alin meteorite, one of the largest iron meteorite impacts ever observed, fell in the Sikhote-Alin Range in Siberia. |
| 1948 | Hasan al-Banna, the famous Egyptian militant and founder of the Ikhwanul Muslimeen organization, was conspired and martyred by the then Egyptian King Malik Farooq. |
| 1951 | Mohammad Raza Shah married Soraya Aspendi Bakhtiar. |
| 1974 | Russian author Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn was arrested and subsequently deported from the Soviet Union for writing The Gulag Archipelago, an exposé of the Soviet forced labour camp system. |
| 1975 | India declared itself to be smallpox. |
| 1988 | Anthony Kennedy was appointed to the Supreme Court of United States. |
| 1993 | Two-year-old James Bulger was led away from New Strand Shopping Centre in Bootle, England, and brutally murdered by two ten-year-old boys, who became the youngest convicted murderers in modern English history. |
| 1994 | Edvard Munch's iconic painting The Scream was stolen from the National Gallery of Norway. |
| 1994 | Edward Munk's famous petting \ The Scream \ was stolen from the National Gallery of Norway. |
| 1995 | Mark Foster makes a new world record by swimming 50m butterfly in about 23.55 seconds. |
| 1999 | Senate acquits the President Clinton who was lying under an oath and obstruction of justice in the Lewinsky case. |
| 2001 | NASA's robotic space probe NEAR Shoemaker touched down on Eros, becoming the first spacecraft to land on an asteroid. |
| 2002 | Iran air tours flight about 950 crashes into a mountain in Iran killing 119. |
| 2002 | 119 people were killed when an Iranian plane crashed while landing at Khurramabad Airport. |
| 2006 | Dick Cheney accidentally shoots friend in a hunting accident. |
| 2009 | Morgan Tsvangirai becomes Prime Minister of Zimbabwe after agreeing to share power with President Robert Mugabe |
| 2009 | Just before it was scheduled to land at Buffalo NiagaraInternational Airport, Colgan Air Flight 3407 crashed into a house inClarence Center, New York, killing the house's occupant and all 49people on board the aircraft. |
| 2010 | A ceasefire was been declared in Northern Yemen by the Houthi fighters and the Yemen government. |
| 2010 | The 21st Winter Olympic Games began in Vancouver, Canada. |
| 2011 | Nearly about 5,000 of Algerians protested for their regime called for the president. Abdelazia boutefloka to be removed inspired by the 2011 Egyptian Revolution. |
| 2012 | A British Singer, Adele, was awarded for the song of the year. Record of the year and albino of the year the Germany Awards. |
| 2013 | The international Olympic Committee announces that the sports of wrestling have been dropped out from 2020 summer Olympics in 2013. |
| 2013 | North Korea conducted a third underground nuclear test. |
| 2014 | After twenty eight years Philippine dictator Ferdinand Macos was ousted because the Philippine government recons $29 million from Swiss accounts by bringing the secret accounts of Macros that were recovered then handed $712 million to the government. |
Famous Birthdays of February 12:
| Year | Name / Profession / Country |
| 1958 | Outback Jack / Wrestler / United States of America |
| 1982 | Jonas Hiller / Ice Hockey Player / Switzerland |
| 1777 | Friedrich de la Motte Fouqué / Poet / Germany |
| 1907 | Joseph Kearns / Actor / United States of America |
| 1948 | Ray Kurzweil / Scientist / United States of America |
| 1930 | John Doyle / Politician / Ireland |
| 1979 | Jesse Spencer / Actor / Australia |
| 1857 | Eugène Atget / Photographer / France |
| 1824 | Dayananda Saraswati / Philosopher / India |
| 1897 | Lincoln LaPaz / Academic / United States of America |
| 1895 | Kristian Djurhuus / Politician / Faroe Islands |
| 1918 | Norman Farberow / Academic / United States of America |
| 1917 | Dom DiMaggio / Baseball Player / United States of America |
| 1990 | Robert Griffin III / Footballer / United States of America |
| 1970 | Judd Winick / Author / United States of America |
| 1941 | Naomi Uemura / Mountaineer / Japan |
| 1984 | Brad Keselowski / Racing Car Driver / United States of America |
| 1916 | Joseph Alioto / Politician / United States of America |
| 1928 | Vincent Montana / Drummer / United States of America |
| 1950 | Michael Ironside / Actor / Canada |
| 1954 | Tzimis Panousis / Singer / Greece |
| 1540 | Won Gyun / General / Korean |
| 1837 | Thomas Moran / Painter / United States of America |
| 1933 | Costa-Gavras / Producer / France |
| 1884 | Marie Vassilieff / Painter / Russia |
| 1885 | Julius Streicher / Publisher / Germany |
| 1979 | Antonio Chatman / Footballer / United States of America |
| 1788 | Carl Reichenbach / Philosopher / Germany |
| 1918 | Julian Schwinger / Academic / United States of America |
| 1881 | Anna Pavlova / Actress / United Kingdom |
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