Editing February 5 (section)

===Pre-1600===
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*[[2 BC]] &ndash; [[Caesar Augustus]] is granted the title ''[[pater patriae]]'' by the [[Roman Senate]].<ref>{{cite book|last=Swan|first=Peter M.|year=2004|title=The Augustan Succession|publisher=Oxford University Press|pages=103–104|isbn=978-0-19-534714-2 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=26s6CG8LffsC&pg=PA103}}</ref>
*[[AD 62|62]] &ndash; [[AD 62 Pompeii earthquake|Earthquake]] in [[Pompeii]], Italy.<ref name="De Carolis">{{cite book |last1=De Carolis |first1=E. |last2=Patricelli |first2=G. |title=Vesuvius, A.D. 79: The Destruction of Pompeii and Herculaneum |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=HYvrOkP1b2IC&pg=PA75 |access-date=29 April 2011 |year=2003 |publisher=L'Erma di Bretschneider |isbn=978-88-8265-199-2 |pages=71–76}}</ref>
*[[756]] &ndash; [[Chinese New Year]]; [[An Lushan]] proclaims himself [[Emperor of China]] and founds the short-lived state of [[Yan (An–Shi)|Yan]].<ref>{{cite book|last=Xiong|first=Victor C.|year=2016|title=Capital Cities and Urban Form in Pre-modern China|publisher=Routledge|page=151|isbn=978-1-317-23556-9 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=YCMlDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA151}}</ref>
*[[1576]] &ndash; [[Henry IV of France|Henry of Navarre]] [[:wikt:abjure|abjures]] Catholicism at [[Tours]] and rejoins the Protestant forces in the [[French Wars of Religion]].<ref>[[Trevor N. Dupuy]], Curt Johnson and David L. Bongard, ''[[Harper Encyclopedia of Military Biography]]'', (Castle Books, 1995), p. 326</ref>
*[[1597]] &ndash; A group of [[Kakure Kirishitan|early Japanese Christians]] are [[26 Martyrs of Japan|killed]] by the new government of Japan for being seen as a threat to Japanese society.<ref>{{cite web|title=Martyrs List|url=http://www1.bbiq.jp/martyrs/ListEngl.html|publisher=Twenty-Six Martyrs Museum|access-date=2010-01-10|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100214135648/http://www1.bbiq.jp/martyrs/ListEngl.html|archive-date=2010-02-14}}</ref>