25.02.1831 – Battle of Olszynka Grochowska, part of Polish November Uprising against Russian Empire.

25.02.1836 – Samuel Colt is granted a United States patent for the Colt revolver.

25.02.1866 Miners in Calaveras County, California, discover what is now called the Calaveras Skull - human remains that supposedly indicated

25.02.1901 – J. P. Morgan incorporates the United States Steel Corporation. #usa #morgan #steel #history #art

25.02.1916 – World War I: The Germans capture Fort Douaumont during the Battle of Verdun.

22.02.1951 – The first Pan American Games are held in Buenos Aires, Argentina. #sport #argentina #history

25.02.1971 – The first unit of the Pickering Nuclear Generating Station, the first commercial nuclear power station in Canada, goes online.

25.02.1991 – The Warsaw Pact is declared disbanded. #europe #communism #WarsawPact #history #art #europe

25.02.2015 – At least 310 people are killed in avalanches in northeastern Afghanistan.

25.02.1919 – Oregon places a one cent per U.S. gallon tax on gasoline, becoming the first U.S. state to levy a gasoline tax.

25.02.1856 – A Peace conference opens in Paris after the Crimean War. #war #peace #conference #paris #history #art

25.02.1991 – Gulf War: An Iraqi scud missile hits an American military barracks in Dhahran, Saudi Arabia killing 28 U.S. Army Reservists

25.02.1956 – In his speech On the Cult of Personality and Its Consequences, Nikita Khrushchev, leader of the Soviet Union denounces the cult

25.02.1875 – Guangxu Emperor of Qing dynasty China begins his reign, under Empress Dowager Cixi's regency.

26.02.364 – Valentinian I is proclaimed Roman emperor. #roma #italy #RomanEmpire #emperor #history #art

26.02.1564 – Playwright Christopher Marlowe, is baptised in Canterbury, Kent, England. #england #marlowe #baptism

26.02.1794 The first Christiansborg Palace in Copenhagen burns down #denmark #palace #copenhagen #art #history #fire

26.02.1815 – Napoleon Bonaparte escapes from Elba. #france #napoleon #escape #elba #history #art

26.02.1909 – Kinemacolor, the first successful color motion picture process, is first shown to the general public at the Palace Theatre in

26.02.1917 – The Original Dixieland Jass Band records the first jazz record, for the Victor Talking Machine Company in New York.