Editing February 12 (section)

===1601–1900===
*[[1689]] &ndash; The [[Convention Parliament (1689)|Convention Parliament]] declares that the flight to France in [[1688]] by [[James II of England|James II]], the last [[Catholic Church|Roman Catholic]] [[Monarchy of the United Kingdom|British monarch]], constitutes an [[abdication]].
*[[1733]] &ndash; [[Georgia Day]]: Englishman [[James Oglethorpe]] founds [[Georgia (U.S. state)|Georgia]], the 13th colony of the [[Thirteen Colonies]], by settling at [[Savannah, Georgia|Savannah]].<ref name="Bowman1986">{{cite book|author=John Stewart Bowman|title=The World almanac of the American West|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=GpJ5AAAAMAAJ|date=October 1986|publisher=World Almanac|isbn=978-0-88687-273-1|page=44}}</ref>
*[[1771]] &ndash; [[Gustav III of Sweden|Gustav III]] becomes the [[Monarchy of Sweden|King of Sweden]].<ref>{{cite book|title=Penny Cyclopaedia of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=DRsWAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA499|year=1838|publisher=C. Knight|pages=499}}</ref>
*[[1817]] &ndash; An [[Argentina|Argentine]]/[[Chile|Chilean]] patriotic army, after [[Crossing of the Andes|crossing the Andes]], defeats Spanish troops at the [[Battle of Chacabuco]].<ref>{{cite book|author=Juan Luis Ossa Santa Cruz|title=Armies, Politics and Revolution: Chile, 1808-1826|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=WhPxDQAAQBAJ&pg=PA109|date=1 May 2015|publisher=Liverpool University Press|isbn=978-1-78138-744-3|pages=109}}</ref>
*[[1818]] &ndash; [[Bernardo O'Higgins]] formally approves the [[Chilean Declaration of Independence]] near [[Concepción, Chile]].<ref>{{cite book|author=Juan Luis Ossa Santa Cruz|title=Armies, Politics and Revolution: Chile, 1808-1826|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=fBLxDQAAQBAJ&pg=PA142|year=2014|publisher=Oxford University Press|isbn=978-1-78138-132-8|pages=142}}</ref>
*[[1825]] &ndash; The [[Muscogee people|Creek]] cede the last of their lands in Georgia to the United States government by the [[Treaty of Indian Springs (1825)|Treaty of Indian Springs]], and migrate west.
*[[1832]] &ndash; [[Ecuador]] annexes the [[Galápagos Islands]].
*[[1889]] &ndash; [[Antonín Dvořák]]'s [[Jakobín]] is premiered at National Theater in Prague<ref>{{cite web|title = Archivní a programové fondy Českého rozhlasu|url =http://www2.rozhlas.cz/archivy/index.php?HLEDPO=697659|date = 2011-02-11|work = Český rozhlas}}</ref>
*[[1894]] &ndash; [[Café Terminus attack|Café Terminus bombing]] by [[Émile Henry (anarchist)|Émile Henry]] during the ''[[Ère des attentats]]'' (1892-1894).<ref>{{Cite book |url=https://www.worldcat.org/title/ocm43706446 |title=Regards populaires sur la violence |date=2000 |publisher=Publications de l'Université de Saint-Etienne |isbn=978-2-86272-180-4 |editor-last=Piarotas |editor-first=Mireille |series=Travaux / Centre interdisciplinaire d'études et de recherches sur l'expression contemporaine |location=Saint-Etienne |pages=141-142 |oclc=ocm43706446}}</ref> Influential event for the birth of modern terrorism.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Ferragu |first=Gilles |date=2019-01-22 |title=L’écho des bombes : l’invention du terrorisme « à l’aveugle » (1893-1895): |url=https://www.cairn.info/revue-ethnologie-francaise-2019-1-page-21.htm?ref=doi |journal=Ethnologie française |issue=1 |pages=21–31 |doi=10.3917/ethn.191.0021 |issn=0046-2616}}</ref>