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  • 11th February 1929: The Lateran Treaty signed between the Italian state and the Roman Catholic Church

    11th February 1929: The Lateran Treaty signed between the Italian state and the Roman Catholic Church
    Feb 11 2026
    The Lateran Treaty recognised the Vatican City as an independent sovereign state under the authority of the pope and, in return, formally recognised the Kingdom of Italy with Rome as its ...
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  • 10th February 1906: Edward VII launches HMS Dreadnought, a revolutionary new type of battleship that made all other ships obsolete

    10th February 1906: Edward VII launches HMS Dreadnought, a revolutionary new type of battleship that made all other ships obsolete
    Feb 10 2026
    Germany quickly began developing an equivalent ship to the Dreadnought, resulting in a naval arms race that contributed to the outbreak of the First World War in ...
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  • 8th February 1867: The Ausgleich, or the Austro-Hungarian Compromise, establishes the Dual Monarchy of Austria-Hungary

    8th February 1867: The Ausgleich, or the Austro-Hungarian Compromise, establishes the Dual Monarchy of Austria-Hungary
    Feb 8 2026
    The empire was reorganised into two legally distinct states governed from Vienna and Budapest. Each possessed its own parliament and domestic administration, but they shared a single monarch who ruled as Emperor of Austria and King of ...
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  • 5th February 1597: The Twenty-Six Martyrs of Japan executed in Nagasaki

    5th February 1597: The Twenty-Six Martyrs of Japan executed in Nagasaki
    Feb 5 2026
    The group, which included six foreign Franciscan friars, three Japanese Jesuits, and seventeen Japanese lay Christians, was sentenced to death by Toyotomi Hideyoshi after statements from a shipwrecked crew suggested that missionaries prepared the way for military ...
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  • 2nd February 1887: First officially recorded Groundhog Day observance takes place in Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania

    2nd February 1887: First officially recorded Groundhog Day observance takes place in Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania
    Feb 2 2026
    The custom of predicting the weather using an animal drew on older beliefs brought to North America by German-speaking immigrants, whose tradition stated that clear weather on that date suggested a prolonged winter while overcast conditions indicated an early ...
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