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==Events== * 705 – Empress Wu Zetian abdicates the throne, restoring the Tang dynasty. *1316 – Battle of Picotin between Ferdinand of Majorca and the forces of Matilda of Hainaut *1371 – Robert II becomes King of Scotland, beginning the Stuart dynasty. *1495 – King Charles VIII of France enters Naples to claim the city's throne. *1632 – Galileo's ''Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems'' is published. *1651 – St. Peter's Flood: A storm surge floods the Frisian coast, drowning 15,000 people. *1744 – War of the Austrian Succession: The Battle of Toulon begins. *1797 – The Last Invasion of Britain begins near Fishguard, Wales. *1819 – By the Adams–Onís Treaty, Spain sells Florida to the United States for five million U.S. dollars. *1821 – Greek War of Independence: Alexander Ypsilantis crosses the Prut river at Sculeni into the Danubian Principalities. *1847 – Mexican–American War: The Battle of Buena Vista – 5,000 American troops defeat 15,000 Mexicans. *1848 – The French Revolution of 1848, which would lead to the establishment of the French Second Republic, begins. *1853 – Washington University in St. Louis is founded as Eliot Seminary in St. Louis, Missouri. *1855 – The Pennsylvania State University is founded in State College, Pennsylvania (as the Farmers' High School of Pennsylvania) *1856 – The United States Republican Party opens its first national meeting in Pittsburgh. *1862 – Jefferson Davis is officially inaugurated for a six-year term as the President of the Confederate States of America in Richmond, Virginia. He was previously inaugurated as a provisional president on February 18, 1861. *1872 – The Prohibition Party holds its first national convention in Columbus, Ohio, nominating James Black as its presidential nominee. *1879 – In Utica, New York, Frank Woolworth opens the first of many of 5 and dime Woolworth stores. *1889 – United States President Grover Cleveland signs a bill admitting North Dakota, South Dakota, Montana and Washington as U.S. states. *1899 – Filipino forces led by General Antonio Luna launch counterattacks for the first time against the American forces during the Philippine–American War. The Filipinos fail to regain Manila from the Americans. *1904 – The United Kingdom sells a meteorological station on the South Orkney Islands to Argentina, the islands are subsequently claimed by the United Kingdom in 1908. *1909 – The sixteen battleships of the Great White Fleet, led by , return to the United States after a voyage around the world. *1915 – World War I: Germany institutes unrestricted submarine warfare. *1921 – After Russian forces under Baron Roman von Ungern-Sternberg drive the Chinese out, the Bogd Khan is reinstalled as the emperor of Mongolia. *1924 – U.S. President Calvin Coolidge becomes the first President to deliver a radio broadcast from the White House. *1942 – World War II: President Franklin D. Roosevelt orders General Douglas MacArthur out of the Philippines as the Japanese victory becomes inevitable. *1943 – World War II: Members of the White Rose resistance, Sophie Scholl, Hans Scholl, and Christoph Probst are executed in Nazi Germany. *1944 – World War II: American aircraft mistakenly bomb the Dutch towns of Nijmegen, Arnhem, Enschede and Deventer, resulting in 800 dead in Nijmegen alone. * 1944 – World War II: The Soviet Red Army recaptures Krivoi Rog. *1948 – Communist revolution in Czechoslovakia. *1957 – Ngô Đình Diệm of South Vietnam survives a communist shooting assassination attempt in Buôn Ma Thuột. *1958 – Egypt and Syria join to form the United Arab Republic. *1959 – Lee Petty wins the first Daytona 500. *1972 – The Official Irish Republican Army detonates a car bomb at Aldershot barracks, killing seven and injuring nineteen others. *1973 – Cold War: Following President Richard Nixon's visit to the People's Republic of China, the two countries agree to establish liaison offices. *1974 – The Organisation of the Islamic Conference summit begins in Lahore, Pakistan. Thirty-seven countries attend and twenty-two heads of state and government participate. It also recognizes Bangladesh. * 1974 – Samuel Byck tries and fails to assassinate U.S. President Richard Nixon. *1979 – Independence of Saint Lucia from the United Kingdom. *1980 – Miracle on Ice: In Lake Placid, New York, the United States hockey team defeats the Soviet Union hockey team 4–3. *1983 – The notorious Broadway flop ''Moose Murders'' opens and closes on the same night at the Eugene O'Neill Theatre. *1986 – Start of the People Power Revolution in the Philippines. *1994 – Aldrich Ames and his wife are charged by the United States Department of Justice with spying for the Soviet Union. *1995 – The Corona reconnaissance satellite program, in existence from 1959 to 1972, is declassified. *1997 – In Roslin, Scotland, scientists announce that an adult sheep named Dolly has been successfully cloned. *2002 – Angolan political and rebel leader Jonas Savimbi is killed in a military ambush. *2006 – At least six men stage Britain's biggest robbery, stealing £53m (about $92.5 million or €78 million) from a Securitas depot in Tonbridge, Kent. *2011 – New Zealand's second deadliest earthquake strikes Christchurch, killing 185 people. * 2011 – Bahraini uprising: Tens of thousands of people march in protest against the deaths of seven victims killed by police and army forces during previous protests. *2012 – A train crash in Buenos Aires, Argentina, kills 51 people and injures 700 others. *2014 – President Viktor Yanukovych of Ukraine is impeached by the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine by a vote of 328-0, fulfilling a major goal of the Euromaidan rebellion. *2015 – A ferry carrying 100 passengers capsizes in the Padma River, killing 70 people. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「February 22」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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