12640 | January 31 | Death | 2014 – Christopher Jones, American actor (b. 1941) |
12641 | January 31 | Death | 2015 – Tomás Bulat, Argentinian economist, journalist, and academic (b. 1964) |
12642 | January 31 | Death | 2015 – Vic Howe, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1929) |
12643 | January 31 | Death | 2015 – William Klinger, Croatian historian and author (b. 1972) |
12644 | January 31 | Death | 2015 – Lizabeth Scott, American actress (b. 1922) |
12645 | January 31 | Death | 2015 – Richard von Weizsäcker, German politician 6th President of Germany (b. 1920) |
12646 | January 31 | Holiday and observance | Christian feast day:Blessed LudovicaGeminianusJohn BoscoMarcellaSamuel Shoemaker (Episcopal Church (USA))January 31 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics) |
12647 | January 31 | Holiday and observance | Independence Day (Nauru), celebrates independence from Australia in 1968. |
12648 | February 1 | Event | 481 – Vandal king Huneric organises a conference between Catholic and Arian bishops at Carthage. |
12649 | February 1 | Event | 1327 – Teenaged Edward III is crowned King of England, but the country is ruled by his mother Queen Isabella and her lover Roger Mortimer. |
12650 | February 1 | Event | 1329 – King John of Bohemia captures Medvėgalis, an important fortress of the pagan Grand Duchy of Lithuania, and baptizes 6,000 of its defenders |
12651 | February 1 | Event | 1411 – The First Peace of Thorn is signed in Thorn, Monastic State of the Teutonic Knights (Prussia). |
12652 | February 1 | Event | 1662 – The Chinese general Koxinga seizes the island of Taiwan after a nine-month siege. |
12653 | February 1 | Event | 1713 – The Kalabalik or Tumult in Bendery results from the Ottoman sultan's order that his unwelcome guest, King Charles XII of Sweden, be seized. |
12654 | February 1 | Event | 1793 – French Revolutionary Wars: France declares war on the United Kingdom and the Netherlands. |
12655 | February 1 | Event | 1796 – The capital of Upper Canada is moved from Newark to York. |
12656 | February 1 | Event | 1814 – Mayon Volcano in the Philippines erupts, killing around 1,200 people, the most devastating eruption of the volcano. |
12657 | February 1 | Event | 1835 – Slavery is abolished in Mauritius. |
12658 | February 1 | Event | 1861 – American Civil War: Texas secedes from the United States. |
12659 | February 1 | Event | 1865 – President Abraham Lincoln signs the Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution. |
12660 | February 1 | Event | 1876 – A murder conviction effectively forces the violent Pennsylvanian Irish anti-owner coal miners, the "Molly Maguires", to disband. |
12631 | January 31 | Death | 2013 – Caleb Moore, American snowmobile racer (b. 1987) |
12632 | January 31 | Death | 2013 – Tony Pierce, American baseball player (b. 1946) |
12633 | January 31 | Death | 2013 – Ingo Swann, American psychic and author (b. 1933) |
12634 | January 31 | Death | 2013 – Shail Upadhya Nepalese diplomat, United Nations disarmament expert and "one of a kind" fashion designer (b. 1936 0r 1937) |
12635 | January 31 | Death | 2014 – Francis M. Fesmire, American cardiologist and physician (b. 1959) |
12636 | January 31 | Death | 2014 – Anna Gordy Gaye, American songwriter and producer co-founded Anna Records (b. 1922) |
12637 | January 31 | Death | 2014 – Abdirizak Haji Hussein, Somalian politician 4th Prime Minister of Somalia (b. 1924) |
12638 | January 31 | Death | 2014 – Miklós Jancsó, Hungarian director and screenwriter (b. 1921) |
12639 | January 31 | Death | 2014 – Joseph Willcox Jenkins, American composer, conductor, and educator (b. 1928) |