WHAT HAPPENED ON 5. FEBRUARY
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Earthquake in Pompeii, Italy. (5. February 62)

An Lushan, leader of a revolt against the Tang Dynasty, declares himself emperor and establishes the state of Yan. (5. February 756)

Henry of Navarre abjures Catholicism at Tours and rejoins the Protestant forces in the French Wars of Religion. (5. February 1576)

A group of early Japanese Christians are killed by the new government of Japan for being seen as a threat to Japanese society. (5. February 1597)

Roger Williams emigrates to Boston. (5. February 1631)

South Carolina becomes the second state to ratify the Articles of Confederation. (5. February 1778)

Spanish defeat British forces and capture Minorca. (5. February 1782)

In Calabria a sequence of strong earthquakes begins. (5. February 1783)

Peninsular War: Siege of Cádiz begins. (5. February 1810)

Jean-Baptiste Bernadotte ascends to the thrones of Sweden and Norway. (5. February 1818)

University of Wisconsin-Madison's first class meets at Madison Female Academy. (5. February 1849)

The Hermitage Museum in Saint Petersburg, Russia, one of the largest and oldest museums in the world, opens to the public. (5. February 1852)

Wallachia and Moldavia are united under Alexander John Cuza as the United Principalities, an autonomous region within the Ottoman Empire, which ushered the birth of the modern Romanian state. (5. February 1859)

The largest alluvial gold nugget in history, called the "Welcome Stranger", is found in Moliagul, Victoria, Australia. (5. February 1869)

King Leopold II of Belgium establishes the Congo as a personal possession. (5. February 1885)

The United States and the United Kingdom sign a treaty for the Panama Canal. (5. February 1900)

Belgian chemist Leo Baekeland announces the creation of Bakelite, the world's first synthetic plastic. (5. February 1909)

Greek military aviators, Michael Moutoussis and Aristeidis Moraitinis perform the first naval air mission in history, with a Farman MF.7 hydroplane. (5. February 1913)

The current constitution of Mexico is adopted, establishing a federal republic with powers separated into independent executive, legislative, and judicial branches. (5. February 1917)

The Congress of the United States passes the Immigration Act of 1917 over President Woodrow Wilson's veto. Also known as the Asiatic Barred Zone Act, it forbade immigration from nearly all of south and southeast Asia. (5. February 1917)