Editing 1934 (section)

=== January–February ===
{{Main|January 1934}}
{{Main|February 1934}}
* [[January 1]] – The [[International Telecommunication Union]], a specialist agency of the [[League of Nations]], is established.<ref>{{cite book|author=League of Nations|title=Handbook of International Organisations: (associations, Bureaux, Committees, Etc.).|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=qSbOAAAAMAAJ|year=1938|publisher=League of Nations|page=392}}</ref>
* [[January 15]] – The 8.0 {{M|w}} [[1934 Nepal–Bihar earthquake|Nepal–Bihar earthquake]] strikes [[Nepal]] and [[Bihar]] with a maximum [[Mercalli intensity scale|Mercalli intensity]] of XI (''Extreme''), killing an estimated 6,000–10,700 people.<ref>{{cite book|author=Gerrit Jasper Schenk|title=Historical Disaster Experiences: Towards a Comparative and Transcultural History of Disasters Across Asia and Europe|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=5YFtDgAAQBAJ&pg=PA244|date=20 March 2017|publisher=Springer|isbn=978-3-319-49163-9|pages=244}}</ref>
* [[February 6]] – [[6 February 1934 crisis|French political crisis]]: The French [[far-right leagues]] rally in front of the [[Palais Bourbon]], in an attempted [[coup d'état]] against the [[French Third Republic|Third Republic]].<ref>{{cite book|author=Gerd-Rainer Horn|title=European Socialists Respond to Fascism: Ideology, Activism and Contingency in the 1930s|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=FWNNPNc42GsC&pg=PA72|date=21 November 1996|publisher=Oxford University Press|isbn=978-0-19-987994-6|pages=72}}</ref>
* [[February 9]]
** [[Gaston Doumergue]] forms a new government in [[France]].
** [[Second Hellenic Republic|Greece]], [[Kingdom of Romania|Romania]], [[Turkey]] and [[Kingdom of Yugoslavia|Yugoslavia]] form the [[Balkan Pact]].
* [[February 12]]–[[February 15|15]] – [[Austrian Civil War]]: The [[Fatherland Front (Austria)|Fatherland Front]] consolidates its power in a series of clashes across the country.
* [[February 16]] – The [[Commission of Government]] is sworn in, as a form of direct rule for the [[Dominion of Newfoundland]].
* [[February 21]] – [[Augusto César Sandino]] is assassinated in [[Managua]], by the [[National Guard (Nicaragua)|National Guard]].
* [[February 23]] – King [[Leopold III of Belgium]] succeeds to the throne, following the death (February 17) of his father King [[Albert I of Belgium|Albert I]].