Editing February 29 (section)

==Events==
===Pre-1600===
*[[AD 888|888]] &ndash; [[Odo of France|Odo]], [[count of Paris]], is crowned king of [[West Francia]] (France) by Archbishop [[Walter (archbishop of Sens)|Walter of Sens]] at [[Compiègne]].<ref>{{cite book |last1=Bradbury|first1=Jim | author-link=Jim Bradbury| title=The Capetians |date=2007 |publisher=[[Bloomsbury Publishing]] |isbn=9780826435149 |pages=30|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=mAgDwx4pS0QC&pg=PA30}}</ref>
*[[1504]] &ndash; [[Christopher Columbus]] uses his knowledge of [[March 1504 lunar eclipse|a lunar eclipse that night]] to convince Jamaican natives to provide him with supplies.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Bergreen |first1=Laurence |title=Columbus: The Four Voyages |date=2011 |publisher=Viking Penguin |isbn=9781101544327 |pages=836–837}}</ref>

===1601–1900===
*[[1644]] &ndash; [[Abel Tasman]]'s second Pacific voyage begins as he leaves [[Batavia, Dutch East Indies|Batavia]] in command of three ships.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Feeken |first1=Erwin |title=European Discovery and Exploration of Australia |date=2019 |publisher=Xlibris Corporation |isbn=9781543401684 |pages=72–73}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Abel Janszoon Tasman, 1603?–1659 |url=https://lib-dbserver.princeton.edu/visual_materials/maps/websites/pacific/tasman/tasman.html |publisher=Princeton University Library |access-date=17 September 2021 |date=2010 |archive-date=August 9, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220809122538/https://lib-dbserver.princeton.edu/visual_materials/maps/websites/pacific/tasman/tasman.html |url-status=dead }}</ref>
*[[1704]] &ndash; In [[Queen Anne's War]], French forces and [[Native American (U.S.)|Native American]]s stage a [[Raid on Deerfield|raid on Deerfield, Massachusetts Bay Colony]], killing 56 villagers and taking more than 100 captive.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Melvoin |first1=Richard |title=New England Outpost: War and Society in Colonial Deerfield |date=1989 |publisher=W. W. Norton & Company |isbn=9780393308082 |page=20}}</ref>
*[[1712]] &ndash; February 29 is followed by [[February 30]] in Sweden, in a move to abolish the [[Swedish calendar]] for a return to the [[Julian calendar]].<ref>{{cite web |last1=Hocken |first1=Vigdis |title=February 30 Was a Real Date |url=https://www.timeanddate.com/date/february-30.html |website=timeanddate.com |access-date=4 September 2021}}</ref>
*[[1720]] &ndash; [[Ulrika Eleonora, Queen of Sweden]] abdicates in favour of her husband, who becomes King [[Frederick I of Sweden|Frederick I]] on March 24.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Nauman |first1=Sari |title=Ulrika Eleonora d.y., drottning |url=https://skbl.se/en/article/UlrikaEleonoradydrottning |publisher=Svenskt kvinnobiografiskt lexikon |access-date=17 September 2021 |date=8 March 2018}}</ref>
*[[1768]] &ndash; Polish nobles form the [[Bar Confederation]].<ref>{{cite web |last1=Daszyk |first1=Krzysztof Karol |title="To fight or not to fight?" The basic political dilemma of the Poles in the period of partitions (Interview) |url=https://www.polskietradycje.pl/enArticles/view/115 |website=polskietradycje.pl |access-date=17 September 2021 |date=30 October 2017 |archive-date=March 14, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220314030131/https://www.polskietradycje.pl/enArticles/view/115 |url-status=dead }}</ref>
*[[1796]] &ndash; The [[Jay Treaty]] between the United States and Great Britain comes into force, facilitating ten years of peaceful trade between the two nations.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Lillich |first1=Richard B. |title=The Jay Treaty Commissions |journal=St. John's Law Review |date=May 1963 |volume=37 |issue=2 |page=265 |url=https://scholarship.law.stjohns.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=4345&context=lawreview |access-date=17 September 2021}}</ref>
*[[1892]] &ndash; [[St. Petersburg, Florida]] is incorporated.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Dunn |first1=Thomas Churchill |title=History repeats in St. Petersburg Series: MY VIEW: [CITY Edition] |work=St. Petersburg Times |date=12 March 1989 |page=2}}</ref>

===1901–present===
*[[1908]] &ndash; [[James Madison University]] is founded at [[Harrisonburg, Virginia]], United States as The State Normal and Industrial School for Women by the [[Virginia General Assembly]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.jmu.edu/centennialcelebration/timeline.shtml|title=JMU Historical Timeline|year=2008|access-date=2023-08-19|publisher=JMU Centennial Office}}</ref>
*[[1912]] &ndash; The [[Piedra Movediza]] (Moving Stone) of [[Tandil]] falls and breaks.<ref>{{cite book |editor1-last=Rabassa |editor1-first=Jorge |title=Advances in Geomorphology and Quaternary Studies in Argentina: Proceedings of the Seventh Argentine Geomorphology and Quaternary Studies Congress |date=2021 |publisher=Springer Nature |isbn=9783030661618 |page=220}}</ref>
*[[1916]] &ndash; [[Tokelau]] is annexed by the United Kingdom.<ref>{{cite web |title=Tokelau Act 1948 |url=https://www.legislation.govt.nz/act/public/1948/0024/latest/DLM247581.html |website=legislation.govt.nz |access-date=4 September 2021 |date=29 October 1948}}</ref>
*  1916 &ndash; In [[South Carolina]], the minimum [[working age]] for factory, mill and mine workers is [[Child labor|raised from 12 to 14 years old]].<ref>{{cite book |title=Bulletin, Issues 16-26 |date=1919 |publisher=U.S. Government Printing Office |page=153 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=xYA_AQAAMAAJ&pg=RA8-PA153 |access-date=17 September 2021}}</ref>
*[[1920]] &ndash; The [[First Czechoslovak Republic|Czechoslovak]] National Assembly adopts the [[Czechoslovak Constitution of 1920|Constitution]].<ref>{{cite web |title=The 1920 Constitution |url=https://www.vlada.cz/en/media-centrum/aktualne/constitution-1920-68721/ |publisher=Government of the Czech Republic |access-date=4 September 2021 |date=25 February 2010}}</ref>
*[[1936]] &ndash; The [[February 26 Incident]] in Tokyo ends.<ref>{{cite book |title=Modern Japan in archives |publisher=[[National Diet Library]] |url=https://www.ndl.go.jp/modern/e/cha4/description07.html |access-date=17 September 2021 |chapter=4-7 The 2.26 Incident of 1936}}</ref>
*[[1940]] &ndash; For her performance as Mammy in ''[[Gone with the Wind (film)|Gone with the Wind]]'', [[Hattie McDaniel]] becomes the first [[African American]] to [[12th Academy Awards|win]] an [[Academy Awards|Academy Award]].<ref>{{cite book |last1=Jackson |first1=Carlton |title=Hattie: The Life of Hattie McDaniel |date=1989 |publisher=Rowman & Littlefield |isbn=9781568330044 |pages=51–52}}</ref>
*  1940   &ndash; Finland initiates [[Winter War]] peace negotiations.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Jussila |first1=Osmo |last2=Hentilä |first2=Seppo |last3=Nevakivi |first3=Jukka |title=From Grand Duchy to a Modern State: A Political History of Finland since 1809 |date=1999 |publisher=Hurst & Company |isbn=1850654212 |page=186}}</ref>
*  1940   &ndash; In a ceremony held in [[Berkeley, California]], physicist [[Ernest Lawrence]] receives the 1939 [[Nobel Prize in Physics]] from Sweden's [[Consul General|consul general]] in [[San Francisco]].<ref>{{cite book |last1 = Childs |first1 = Herbert | title = An American Genius: The Life of Ernest Orlando Lawrence |publisher = E. P. Dutton |year = 1968 |isbn = 9780525054436 |oclc = 273351 |page=295}}</ref>
*[[1944]] &ndash; The [[Admiralty Islands]] are invaded in [[Operation Brewer]], led by American general [[Douglas MacArthur]], in World War II.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Frierson |first1=William C. |title=The Admiralties: Operations of the 1st Cavalry Division, 29 February - 18 May 1944 |date=1990 |publisher=United States Army Center of Military History |pages=15–23 |oclc=10663708}}</ref>
*[[1960]] &ndash; The 5.7&nbsp;{{M|w}} [[1960 Agadir earthquake|Agadir earthquake]] shakes coastal [[Morocco]] with a maximum perceived intensity of [[Mercalli intensity scale|X (''Extreme'')]], destroying Agadir and leaving 12,000 dead and another 12,000 injured.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Davis |first1=Lee Allyn |title=Natural Disasters |date=2008 |publisher=Infobase Publishing |isbn=9781438118789 |page=77}}</ref>
*[[1964]] &ndash; [[British Eagle International Airlines Flight 802/6]] crashes into the [[Glungezer]] mountain in the [[Tux Alps]] of Austria, killing all 75 people aboard.<ref name="Flight349">{{cite magazine |date=5 March 1964 |title=Tragedy at Innsbruck |url=http://www.flightglobal.com/pdfarchive/view/1964/1964%20-%200600.html |url-status=dead |magazine=Flight International |pages=349 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20181106132351/https://www.flightglobal.com/pdfarchive/view/1964/1964%20-%200600.html |archivedate=6 November 2018}}</ref>
*[[1968]] &ndash; [[Aeroflot Flight 15]] crashes [[Irkutsk Oblast]], [[Soviet Union]], due to a loss of control. Eighty-three of the 84 occupants onboard die. The exact cause of the accident is unknown.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Loss of control Accident Ilyushin Il-18D CCCP-74252, Thursday 29 February 1968 |url=https://asn.flightsafety.org/wikibase/331915 |access-date=2024-11-04 |website=asn.flightsafety.org}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Crash of an Ilyushin II-18D near Parchum: 83 killed {{!}} Bureau of Aircraft Accidents Archives |url=https://www.baaa-acro.com/crash/crash-ilyushin-ii-18d-near-parchum-83-killed |access-date=2024-11-04 |website=www.baaa-acro.com}}</ref>
*[[1972]] &ndash; South Korea withdraws 11,000 of its 48,000 troops from [[South Vietnam]] as part of [[Richard Nixon|Nixon's]] [[Vietnamization]] policy in the [[Vietnam War]].<ref>{{cite book |editor1-last=Bowman |editor1-first=John S. |title=The World Almanac of the Vietnam War |date=1986 |publisher=Pharos Books |isbn=0886872723 |page=301}}</ref>
*[[1980]] &ndash; [[Gordie Howe]] of the [[Hartford Whalers]] makes [[National Hockey League|NHL]] history as he scores his 800th goal.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Kreiser |first1=John |title=Feb. 29: Howe scores 800th NHL goal |url=https://www.nhl.com/news/this-date-in-nhl-history-february-29/c-314226556 |publisher=National Hockey League |access-date=17 September 2021 |date=29 February 2020}}</ref>
*[[1984]] &ndash; [[Pierre Trudeau]] announces his retirement as [[Liberal Party of Canada|Liberal Party]] leader and [[Prime Minister of Canada]].<ref>{{Cite DCB|last=English |first=John |year=2015 |origyear=2007 |title=TRUDEAU, PIERRE ELLIOTT |volume=XXII |url=http://www.biographi.ca/en/bio/trudeau_pierre_elliott_22E.html |access-date=5 September 2021}}</ref>
*[[1988]] &ndash; South African archbishop [[Desmond Tutu]] is arrested along with 100 other clergymen during a five-day anti-[[apartheid]] demonstration in [[Cape Town]].<ref>{{cite book |last1=Gish |first1=Steven |title=Desmond Tutu: A Biography |date=2004 |publisher=Greenwood Publishing Group |isbn=9780313328602 |page=xv}}</ref>
*  1988   &ndash; [[Svend Robinson]] becomes the first member of the [[House of Commons of Canada]] to [[coming out|come out as gay]].<ref>{{cite news |last1=Zeidler |first1=Maryse |title=30 years after Canada's first MP came out, LGBT politicians still face challenges |url=https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/svend-robinson-gay-mp-1.4548089 |access-date=5 September 2021 |work=CBC.ca |date=25 February 2018}}</ref>
*[[1992]] &ndash; A referendum is begun in [[Socialist Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina|Bosnia and Herzegovina]] for the [[Bosnian independence referendum, 1992|determination of Bosnian independence]].<ref>{{cite report |title = The Referendum on Independence in Bosnia-Herzegovina: February 29-March 1, 1992 |journal = Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe |date = 12 March 1992 |location = Washington D.C. |url = http://csce.gov/index.cfm?FuseAction=UserGroups.Home&ContentRecord_id=250&ContentType=G&ContentRecordType=G&UserGroup_id=5&Subaction=ByDate |url-status=dead |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20110522132353/http://csce.gov/index.cfm?FuseAction=UserGroups.Home&ContentRecord_id=250&ContentType=G&ContentRecordType=G&UserGroup_id=5&Subaction=ByDate |archive-date = 22 May 2011}}</ref>
*[[1996]] &ndash; [[Faucett Perú Flight 251]] crashes in [[the Andes]]; all 123 passengers and crew are killed.<ref>{{cite web |title=ASN Aircraft accident Boeing 737-222 OB-1451 Arequipa-Rodriguez Ballon Airport (AQP) |url=https://aviation-safety.net/database/record.php?id=19960229-0 |access-date=5 September 2021 |website=Aviation Safety Network |publisher=Flight Safety Foundation}}</ref>
*  1996   &ndash; The [[Siege of Sarajevo]] officially ends.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Kidd |first1=James |title=The ghosts of Sarajevo: a journalist looks back at the enduring tragedy of the Balkan wars |url=https://www.thenationalnews.com/arts-culture/the-ghosts-of-sarajevo-a-journalist-looks-back-at-the-enduring-tragedy-of-the-balkan-wars-1.76494 |access-date=17 September 2021 |work=[[The National (Abu Dhabi)|The National]] |date=30 March 2017}}</ref>
*[[2000]] &ndash; Chechens attack a guard post near Ulus Kert, eventually killing 84 Russian paratroopers during the [[Second Chechen War]].<ref>{{cite magazine |last1=Wilmoth |first1=Michael D. |last2=Tsouras |first2=Peter G. |date=July–August 2001 |title=ULUS-KERT: An airborne company's last stand |volume=81 |issue=4 |issn=0026-4148 |url= |magazine=Military Review |pages=91–94 |location= |publisher=Department of the Army Headquarters |access-date=}}</ref>
*[[2004]] &ndash; [[Jean-Bertrand Aristide]] is removed as president of [[Haiti]] following [[2004 Haitian coup d'état|a coup]].<ref>{{cite news |last1=Miller |first1=Steve |last2=Curl |first2=Joseph |title=Aristide accuses U.S. of forcing his ouster |url=https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2004/mar/2/20040302-124204-5668r/ |access-date=13 September 2021 |work=The Washington Times |date=2 March 2004}}</ref>
*[[2008]] &ndash; The United Kingdom's [[Ministry of Defence (United Kingdom)|Ministry of Defence]] withdraws [[Prince Harry]] from a [[Operation Herrick|tour of Afghanistan]] after news of his deployment is leaked to foreign media.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Lyall |first1=Sarah |title=Prince Harry Withdrawn From Afghanistan |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/29/world/asia/28cnd-harry.html |access-date=13 September 2021 |work=The New York Times |date=29 February 2008}}</ref>
*  2008   &ndash; [[Misha Defonseca]] admits to fabricating her memoir, ''[[Misha: A Mémoire of the Holocaust Years]]'', in which she claims to have lived with a pack of wolves in the woods during [[the Holocaust]].<ref>{{cite news |title=Belgian author of Holocaust survival story admits it's a fake |url=https://www.nbcnews.com/id/wbna23409904 |access-date=13 September 2021 |work=NBC News |agency=The Associated Press |date=29 February 2008}}</ref>
*[[2012]] &ndash; [[North Korea]] agrees to suspend [[uranium enrichment]] and nuclear and long-range missile tests in return for US food aid.<ref>{{cite news |title=North Korea halts nuclear programme |url=https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2012/3/1/north-korea-halts-nuclear-programme |access-date=21 September 2021 |work=Al Jazeera |date=1 March 2012}}</ref>
*[[2016]] &ndash; In the [[2016 Miqdadiyah bombing|Miqdadiyah bombing]]: at least 40 people are killed and 58 others wounded following a [[suicide bombing]] by [[ISIL]] at a [[Shi'ite]] funeral in the city of [[Miqdadiyah]], [[Diyala Governorate|Diyala]], Iraq.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Rasheed |first1=Ahmed |last2=Hameed |first2=Saif |last3=Kalin |first3=Stephen |title=Suicide bombings kill 40 in eastern Iraq, eight west of Baghdad |url=https://www.reuters.com/article/us-mideast-crisis-iraq-blast-idUSKCN0W21UA |access-date=21 September 2021 |work=Reuters |date=29 February 2016}}</ref>
* [[2020]]   &ndash; During a demonstration, pro-government [[Colectivo (Venezuela)|colectivos]] [[2020 Barquisimeto shooting|shoot]] at disputed President and Speaker of the [[National Assembly (Venezuela)|National Assembly]] [[Juan Guaidó]] and his supporters in [[Barquisimeto]], Venezuela, leaving five injured.<ref>{{Cite news|last=Singer|first=Florantonia|date=2020-03-01|title=El ataque a una concentración de Juan Guaidó deja al menos cinco heridos|language=es|work=El País |url=https://elpais.com/internacional/2020/03/01/america/1583026220_615376.html |access-date=2021-05-19|issn=1134-6582}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|last=|first=|date=29 February 2020|title=Colectivos chavistas atacaron una concentración convocada por Juan Guaidó en Barquisimeto|url=https://www.infobae.com/america/venezuela/2020/02/29/colectivos-chavistas-atacaron-una-concentracion-convocada-por-juan-guaido-en-barquisimeto/|access-date=2021-05-19|website=[[infobae]]|language=es}}</ref>
*  2020   &ndash; The [[United States]] and the [[Taliban]] sign the [[United States–Taliban deal|Doha Agreement]] for bringing peace to [[Afghanistan]].<ref>{{Cite news |last=Qazi |first=Shereena |title=Afghanistan's Taliban, US sign agreement aimed at ending war |date=February 29, 2020|access-date=March 6, 2021|url=https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2020/02/afghanistan-taliban-sign-deal-america-longest-war-200213063412531.html |publisher=[[Al Jazeera Arabic|Al-Jazeera]]}}</ref>
* 2020  &ndash; [[Muhyiddin Yassin]] is appointed as the 8th [[Prime Minister of Malaysia]], amid the [[2020 Malaysian political crisis]].<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2020/2/29/malaysias-king-appoints-muhyiddin-yassin-as-prime-minister | title=Malaysia's king appoints Muhyiddin Yassin as prime minister }}</ref>
* [[2024]] &ndash; The [[Flour Massacre]] (also known as the Al-Rashid massacre) took place on al-Rashid street at the Al-Nabulsi roundabout to the west of [[Gaza City]] in the [[Palestinian territories|Palestinian territory]] of the [[Gaza Strip]] where more than 100 Palestinians were killed and over 750 were wounded after Israeli forces opened fire on Palestinians waiting for humanitarian aid amidst the [[Gaza war]].<ref>{{cite news |date=29 February 2024 |title='Massacre': Dozens killed by Israeli fire in Gaza while collecting food aid|url=https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/2/29/dozens-killed-injured-by-israeli-fire-in-gaza-while-collecting-food-aid|work=Al Jazeera |access-date=29 February 2024}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last1=Salman |first1=Abeer |last2=Diamond|first2=Jeremy |date=29 February 2024|title=More than 100 killed as Israeli forces open fire in chaos at Gaza food lines, Palestinian health ministry says|url=https://www.cnn.com/2024/02/29/middleeast/gaza-city-deaths-food-israel-intl|work=CNN |location= |access-date=29 February 2024}}</ref>