This Day in History
Today: February 5, 2026
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Caesar Augustus is granted the title pater patriae by the Roman Senate.[1]
62
Earthquake in Pompeii, Italy.[2]
756
Chinese New Year; An Lushan proclaims himself Emperor of China and founds the short-lived state of Yan.[3]
1576
Henry of Navarre abjures Catholicism at Tours and rejoins the Protestant forces in the French Wars of Religion.[4]
1597
A group of early Japanese Christians are killed by the new government of Japan for being seen as a threat to Japanese society.[5]
1783
In Calabria, a sequence of strong earthquakes begins.[6]
1810
Peninsular War: Siege of Cádiz begins.[7]
1818
Jean-Baptiste Bernadotte ascends to the thrones of Sweden and Norway.[8]
1852
The New Hermitage Museum in Saint Petersburg, Russia, one of the largest and oldest museums in the world, opens to the public.[9]
1859
Alexandru Ioan Cuza, Prince of Moldavia, is also elected as prince of Wallachia, joining the two principalities as a personal union called the United Principalities, an autonomous region within the Ottoman Empire, which ushered in the birth of the modern Romanian state.<span class="mw-reflink-text" ...
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