Day In History
This Day in History
Today: February 21, 2026
452
Severianus, Bishop of Scythopolis, is martyred in Palestine.[1]
1245
Thomas, the first known Bishop of Finland, is granted resignation after confessing to torture and forgery.
1440
The Prussian Confederation is formed.
1613
Mikhail I is unanimously elected Tsar by a national assembly, beginning the Romanov dynasty of Imperial Russia.
1797
A force of 1,400 French soldiers invaded Britain at Fishguard in support of the Society of United Irishmen. They were defeated by 500 British reservists.
1804
The first self-propelling steam locomotive makes its outing at the Pen-y-Darren Ironworks in Wales.
1808
Without a previous declaration of war, Russian troops cross the border to Sweden at Abborfors in eastern Finland, thus beginning the Finnish War, in which Sweden will lose the eastern half of the country (i.e. Finland) to Russia.
1828
Initial issue of the Cherokee Phoenix is the first periodical to use the Cherokee syllabary invented by Sequoyah.
1842
John Greenough is granted the first U.S. patent for the sewing machine.
1848
Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels publish The Communist Manifesto.
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