About February 27
February 27, 2025 is the 58th day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 307 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Thursday.
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Pisces is the sun sign of a person born on this day. Amethyst is the modern birthstone for this month. Bloodstone is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.
According to the lunisolar Chinese calendar, there are 355 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On February 27
- 380 –Edict of Thessalonica: Emperor Theodosius I, with co-emperors Gratian and Valentinian II, declare their wish that all Roman citizens convert to trinitarian Christianity.
- 425 –The University of Constantinople is founded by Emperor Theodosius II at the urging of his wife Aelia Eudocia.
- 1594 –Henry IV is crowned King of France.
- 1812 –Manuel Belgrano raises the Flag of Argentina in the city of Rosario for the first time.
- 1860 –Abraham Lincoln makes a speech at Cooper Union in the city of New York that is largely responsible for his election to the Presidency.
- 1861 –Russian troops fire on a crowd in Warsaw protesting against Russian rule over Poland, killing five protesters.
- 1864 –American Civil War: The first Northern prisoners arrive at the Confederate prison at Andersonville, Georgia.
- 1870 –The current flag of Japan is first adopted as the national flag for Japanese merchant ships.
- 1900 –Second Boer War: In South Africa, British military leaders receive an unconditional notice of surrender from Boer General Piet Cronje at the Battle of Paardeberg.
- 1902 –Second Boer War: Harry ‘Breaker’Harbord Morant is executed in Pretoria.
- 1921 –The International Working Union of Socialist Parties is founded in Vienna.
- 1951 –The Twenty-second Amendment to the United States Constitution, limiting Presidents to two terms, is ratified.
- 1955 –Soviet Union regional elections, 1955.
- 1971 –Doctors in the first Dutch abortion clinic (the Mildredhuis in Arnhem) start to perform aborti provocati.
- 1976 –The formerly Spanish territory of Western Sahara, under the auspices of the Polisario Front declares independence as the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic.
- 1986 –The United States Senate allows its debates to be televised on a trial basis.
- 1989 –Venezuela is rocked by the Caracazo riots.
- 2002 –Ryanair Flight 296 catches fire at London Stansted Airport. Subsequent investigations criticize Ryanair’s handling of the evacuation.
- 2004 –A bombing of a Superferry by Abu Sayyaf in the Philippines’ worst terrorist attack kills 116.
- 2004 –The initial version of the John Jay Report, with details about the Catholic sexual abuse scandal in the United States, is released.
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