25 February AM 7527
12th Indiction
a.d. vi Id. Mart. MMDCCLXXII A.U.C.
Our Lady of the Vine, Tuscany, Italy
Feast of St Himelin
Feast of St Anastasia the Patrician
Feast of St Marie-Eugénie de Jésus
- 1222 – Johan Sverkersson, king of Sweden since 1216 died (b. 1201)
- 1391 – Tvrtko I of Bosnia died (b. 1338)
- 1415 – Vasily II, Grand Prince of Moscow born (d. 1462)
- 1452 – Ferdinand II, king of Castile and León born (d. 1516)
- 1503 – Ferdinand I, Holy Roman Emperor born (d. 1564)
- 1756 - Louis-Joseph, Marquis de Montcalm appointed commander of French military forces in New France; he will embark for Quebec on April 3. Paris, France
- 1830 – The Royal Netherlands East Indies Army is created.
- 1865 - Assembly of the Province of Canada votes 91-33 to proceed with Confederation, by urging the Imperial Parliament to pass an act to unite the provinces of British North America; the Legislative Council had approved the resolution 45-15 on February 20. Québec, Québec
- 1872 – Giuseppe Mazzini, anti-Catholic revolutionary, died (b. 1805). A good day!
- 1876 - Police - NWMP Sub Constable John Nash killed while gathering firewood with three others from outside Fort Macleod; he was pitched from the load he was driving as it overturned and was killed by a falling log; one of the original members who made the trek westward over land in 1874 from Fort Dufferin, he was the first member of the RCMP Honour Roll for those who have passed away in the line of duty. Fort Macleod, Alberta
- 1892 - James Naismith, from Almonte, Ontario, organizes the world's first public game of his new invention - basketball; at the YMCA training college. Springfield, Massachusetts (and the moved to my Alma Mater, the Diversity of Kansas, where he spent the rest of his life!-JW)
- 1898 – St Marie-Eugénie de Jésus, founded the Religious of the Assumption died (b. 1817)
- 1909 – By signing the Anglo-Siamese Treaty of 1909, Thailand relinquishes its sovereignty over the Malay states of Kedah, Kelantan, Perlis and Terengganu, which become British protectorates.
- 1915 – World War I: The Battle of Neuve Chapelle begins. This is the first large-scale operation by the British Army in the war.
- 1964 – Prince Edward, Earl of Wessex born
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