Historical events on February 6
FEBRUARY 6, 1788
Massachusetts became the sixth state to ratify the constitution of the United States.
Massachusetts, officially the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, is a state in the New England region of the Northeastern United States. It borders the
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FEBRUARY 6, 1819
British official Stamford Raffles signed a treaty with Sultan Hussein Shah of Johor, establishing Singapore as a trading post for the East India Company.
Sir Thomas Stamford Bingley Raffles was a British colonial official who served as the governor of the Dutch East Indies between 1811
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FEBRUARY 6, 590
Vistahm and Vinduyih deposed their brother-in-law Hormizd IV, King of Kings of the Sasanian Empire.
Vistahm or Bistam, was a Parthian dynast of the Ispahbudhan house, and maternal uncle of the Sasanian king of kings of Iran,
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FEBRUARY 6, 1820
The first ship of the American Colonization Society departed from New York for West Africa with 86 African-American emigrants aboard to found the colony of Liberia.
The American Colonization Society (ACS), initially the Society for the Colonization of Free People of Color of America, was an American organization
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FEBRUARY 6, 1951
A train derailed while crossing a temporary wooden trestle in Woodbridge, New Jersey, causing 85 deaths.
On February 6, 1951, a Pennsylvania Railroad train derailed on a temporary wooden trestle in Woodbridge, New Jersey, United States, killing 85
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FEBRUARY 6, 1778
France and the United States signed the Treaty of Amity and Commerce and the Treaty of Alliance, respectively establishing commercial and military ties between the two nations.
The Treaty of Amity and Commerce established formal diplomatic and commercial relations between the United States and France during the American Revolutionary
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FEBRUARY 6, 1865
Finland established its modern system of secular municipalities, separate from church parishes.
The municipalities represent the local level of administration in Finland and act as the fundamental, self-governing administrative units of the country. The
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FEBRUARY 6, 1919
World War I: More than 65,000 workers in Seattle began a five-day general strike to gain higher wages after two years of wage controls in the United States.
World War I or the First World War, also known as the Great War, was a global conflict between two coalitions: the
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FEBRUARY 6, 1987
Mary Gaudron became the first woman to be appointed a justice of the High Court of Australia.
Mary Genevieve Gaudron is an Australian lawyer and judge, who was the first female Justice of the High Court of Australia. She
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FEBRUARY 6, 1579
Domingo de Salazar, a Spanish Dominican friar, was appointed the first bishop of Manila.
Domingo de Salazar was a Catholic Dominican prelate who served as the first Bishop of Manila (1579–1594), which was then newly-annexed to the Spanish Empire.
FEBRUARY 6, 1922
Representatives from France, Italy, Japan, the United States, and the United Kingdom signed the Washington Naval Treaty (pictured), agreeing to limits on naval construction in the hopes of preventing an arms race.
The Washington Naval Treaty, also known as the Five-Power Treaty, was signed during 1922 among the major Allies of World War I,
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FEBRUARY 6, 1806
Napoleonic Wars: A British naval squadron captured or destroyed five French ships of the line at the Battle of San Domingo in the Caribbean Sea.
The Napoleonic Wars (1803–1815) were a global series of conflicts fought between the French First Republic (1803–1804)/First French Empire (1804–1815) under the
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FEBRUARY 6, 1840
British representatives and Māori chiefs first signed the Treaty of Waitangi, widely regarded to be the founding document of New Zealand.
Māori are the indigenous Polynesian people of mainland New Zealand. Māori originated with settlers from East Polynesia, who arrived in New Zealand
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FEBRUARY 6, 1862
Union forces earned one of their first important victories in the American Civil War at the Battle of Fort Henry in western Tennessee.
The Union, colloquially known as the North, refers to the United States when eleven Southern slave states seceded to form the Confederate
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