1 February 1662<\/h3>\n
The Dutch surrendered Taiwan to Chinese Ming loyalist warlord Koxinga after a nine-month siege. Koxinga planned to use the island as a base for operations against China\u2019s ruling Manchurian Qing dynasty.<\/p>\n
1 February 1733<\/h3>\n
Britain\u2019s James Oglethorpe landed near the present site of Savannah, Georgia with 116 colonists. A royal charter for the colony had been granted in 1732. (Because of the adoption of the Gregorian Calendar<\/a> in 1752, Georgia celebrates its foundation on 12 February)<\/p>\n In a fight in Epsom, for 200 guineas and a championship belt, Gloucestershire-born bare knuckle boxer Tom Cribb beats the one-eyed former champion Jem Belcher after 31 punishing rounds.<\/p>\n Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley<\/a>, author of Frankenstein<\/em> and widow of the poet Percy Bysshe Shelley, died of a brain tumour at the age of 53.<\/p>\n King Carlos I of Portugal and his eldest son Luis Filipe are assassinated by Republican gunmen as they ride in their carriage through Lisbon. Carlos\u2019s younger son Manuel is also wounded but survives to become Portugal\u2019s last reigning monarch.<\/p>\n In Canada the North-West Mounted Police merged with the Dominion Police, a federal force with jurisdiction in eastern Canada, to form the Royal Canadian Mounted Police \u2013 the Mounties.<\/p>\n Browse more On this day in history<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p><\/div> What events happened on 1 February in history? We round up the events, births and deaths\u2026 <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":21642,"template":"","categories":[1],"acf":{"readingTimeMinutes":"2"},"uagb_featured_image_src":{"full":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2023\/02\/1-february-on-this-day-in-history.jpg",620,413,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2023\/02\/1-february-on-this-day-in-history-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2023\/02\/1-february-on-this-day-in-history-300x200.jpg",300,200,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2023\/02\/1-february-on-this-day-in-history.jpg",620,413,false],"large":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2023\/02\/1-february-on-this-day-in-history.jpg",620,413,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2023\/02\/1-february-on-this-day-in-history.jpg",620,413,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2023\/02\/1-february-on-this-day-in-history.jpg",620,413,false]},"uagb_author_info":{"display_name":"importmanagerhub@sprylab.com","author_link":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbchistory\/author\/importmanagerhubsprylab-com\/"},"uagb_comment_info":0,"uagb_excerpt":"What events happened on 1 February in history? We round up the events, births and deaths\u2026","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbchistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rss_feed\/21641"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbchistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rss_feed"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbchistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/rss_feed"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbchistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbchistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21642"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbchistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21641"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbchistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21641"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}1 February 1809<\/h3>\n
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1 February 1908<\/h3>\n
1 February 1920<\/h3>\n
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