On December 20, 1860, South Carolina took the lead by adopting an ordinance of secession ; by February 1, 1861, Florida, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, and Texas followed.

( Despite common belief, he did not take a day from February ; see the debunked theory on month lengths ) According to a Senatus consultum quoted by Macrobius, he chose this month because it was the time of several of his great triumphs, including the conquest of Egypt.

After some delay Sigismund assented to the offer, with the provision that Prussia should be treated as a Polish fiefdom ; and after this arrangement had been confirmed by a treaty concluded at Kraków, Albert pledged a personal oath to Sigismund I and was invested with the duchy for himself and his heirs on 10 February 1525.

Alfonso XIII ( Alfonso León Fernando María Jaime Isidro Pascual Antonio de Borbón y Austria-Lorena ; 17 May 1886 – 28 February 1941 ) was King of Spain from 1886 until 1931.

Baldwin III died on 10 February 1163 and the kingdom passed to Amalric, although there was some opposition among the nobility to Agnes ; they were willing to accept the marriage in 1157 when Baldwin III was still capable of siring an heir, but now the Haute Cour refused to endorse Amalric as king unless his marriage to Agnes was annulled.

In February 2004 there were 140 public and non-governmental schools in Canberra ; 96 were operated by the Government and 44 are non-Government.

Colangelo's group was so certain that they would be awarded a franchise that they held a name-the-team contest for it ; they took out a full-page ad in the sports section of the February 13, 1995 edition of the state's leading newspaper, the Arizona Republic.

A court case allowing the União do Vegetal to import and use the tea for religious purposes in the United States, Gonzales v. O Centro Espirita Beneficente Uniao do Vegetal, was heard by the U. S. Supreme Court on November 1, 2005 ; the decision, released February 21, 2006, allows the UDV to use the tea in its ceremonies pursuant to the Religious Freedom Restoration Act.

His brothers were equally willing to save the dowager queen, but Otto got an army into the field: they subsequently met at the old Lombard capital of Pavia and were married in 951 ; he was crowned emperor in Rome, 2 February 962 by Pope John XII, and, most unusually, she was crowned empress at the same ceremony.

* Fawthrop, Tom ; Agent of suffering, Guardian, February 10, 2008

Abdülaziz ( Ottoman Turkish: عبد العزيز / ` Abdü ’ l -` Azīz ; February 9 / 18, 1830 – June 4, 1876 ) was the 32nd Sultan of the Ottoman Empire and reigned between 25 June 1861 and 30 May 1876.

The ice reaches its maximum extent in February or March ; typical ice thickness in the northernmost areas in the Bothnian Bay, the northern basin of the Gulf of Bothnia, is about for landfast sea ice.

The Gallup Organization published a poll in February 2007, a correspondents to name the greatest president in U. S. history ; Clinton came in fourth place, capturing 13 % of the vote.

* The C ++ Programming Language by Bjarne Stroustrup – Addison-Wesley Pub Co ; 3rd edition ( February 15, 2000 ); ISBN 0-201-70073-5

Derby's health had been declining for some time and he finally resigned as Prime Minister in late February 1868 ; he would live for twenty months.

Zahir-ud-din Muhammad Babur ( 14 February 148326 December 1530 ; sometimes also spelt Baber or Babar ) was a conqueror from Central Asia who, following a series of setbacks, finally succeeded in laying the basis for the Mughal dynasty in the Indian Subcontinent and became the first Mughal emperor.

*" Tanker Lost In Atlantic ; 39 Aboard ", The Washington Post, February 9, 1963.

On March 14, 2002, an agreement was signed to transform the FRY into a loose state union called Serbia and Montenegro ; it took effect on February 4, 2003.

: On February 28, 2008, the CIA added an entry for Kosovo ; before this, Kosovo was excluded in the Factbook.

The Eastern leaders retaliated against these steps by integrating the economies of their nations in Comecon, their version of the Marshall Plan ; exploding the first Soviet atomic device in 1949 ; signing an alliance with People's Republic of China in February 1950 ; and forming the Warsaw Pact, Eastern Europe's counterpart to NATO, in 1955.

* French forces: troops sent within the framework of Operation Unicorn and under UN mandate ( United Nations Operation in Côte d ' Ivoire ), 3000 men in February 2003 and 4600 in November 2004 ;

On 28 February 2011 ONUCI consisted of 7, 568 troops, 177 military observers, and numerous international civilians and Police ; the mission had received helicopter and infantry reinforcement from UNMIL during the stand-off since the late 2010 elections which had been won by Alassane Ouattara.

In 2002, Love began composing an album with Linda Perry ; the record, America's Sweetheart, was released on Virgin Records in February 2004, was embraced by critics with mixed reviews.

With Georgia Hale his new leading lady, Chaplin began filming the picture in February 1924.

With a couple of hundred men, he subdued the local inhabitants and founded the city of Santiago de Nueva Extremadura, now Santiago de Chile, on February 12, 1541.

With the help of five Central American Presidents, including Ortega, it was agreed that a voluntary demobilization of the contras should start in early December 1989, in order to facilitate free and fair elections in Nicaragua in February 1990 ( even though the Reagan administration had pushed for a delay of contra disbandment ).

With the abrogation of the Constitution in February 2011, parliament was dissolved.

With only 6. 3 millimetres of rain fell in the month and temperatures hitting as high as 35 degrees Celsius on 26 February.

With his bull Cum praeexcelsa of 28 February 1477, in which he referred to the feast as that of the Conception of Mary, without using the word " Immaculate ", he granted indulgences to those who would participate in the specially composed Mass or Office on the feast itself or during its octave, and he used the word " immaculate " of Mary, but applied instead the adjective " miraculous " to her conception.

With his adoption on 25 February 50 AD, Nero became heir to the throne.

With the return of Michel Aoun, the climate was right to try to heal wounds to help unite the country after former Prime Minister Rafik Hariri was assassinated on February 14, 2005.

With U. S. support, Anastasio Somoza García outmaneuvered his political opponents, including Sandino ( who was executed by National Guard officers in February 1934 ), and took over the presidency in 1936.

With the country now under submission, all the leading Scots, except for William Wallace, surrendered to Edward in February 1304.

With the help of a small team of African Union troops, the coalition government also began a counteroffensive in February 2009 to assume full control of the southern half of the country.

With the help of a small team of African Union troops, the coalition government also began a counteroffensive in February 2009 to assume full control of the southern half of the country.

With the Discovery launch moving to November, Endeavour mission " cannot fly as planned, so the next available launch window is in February 2011 ," NASA said, adding that the launch dates are subject to change.

With war still looming on 24 February 2003, Saddam Hussein took part in an interview with CBS News reporter Dan Rather.

With Gotobed back in the line-up ( now using his birth name, Robert Grey ), the group initially reworked much of their back catalogue for a performance at Royal Festival Hall on 26 February 2000.

With the ongoing Korean War, Grissom's squadron was dispatched to the war zone in February 1952.

With husband Michael Sloan, she has two children, daughter Piper ( born February 1991 ) and son Griffin ( born June 1996 ).

With this precedent, in February of the following year, the Government legitimized residency in the city of Hebron proper.

With the weakening of the Soviet Union, in February 1988, the first non-sanctioned demonstrations were held in Chişinău.

With a wave of new enlargements on the way, the Maastricht Treaty was signed on 7 February 1992 which established the European Union when it came into force the following year.

With this object in view he visited the colliery of Anzin in northern France, in February 1884 when a strike was on ; he visited La Beauce ( for La Terre ), Sedan, Ardennes ( for La Débâcle ) and travelled on the railway line between Paris and Le Havre ( when researching La Bête humaine ).

*" With Microscope and Tweezers: An Analysis of the Internet Virus of November 1988 " by Mark W. Eichin and Jon A. Rochlis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology dated February 9, 1989 We present the chronology of events as seen by our team at MIT ...

With the fall of the Russian Empire, the Russian Provisional Government removed all civil restrictions based on religion and nationality, contributing to local enthusiasm for the February Revolution.

In February 1990, the first computers from IBM to incorporate the POWER Architecture (" Performance Optimized With Enhanced RISC ") were called the " RISC System / 6000 " or RS / 6000.