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February 12 is the 43rd day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. There are 322 days remaining, 323 in leap years.

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1541 - Santiago, Chile is founded by Pedro de Valdivia.
1554 - Nine days after claiming the throne of England, Lady Jane Grey is beheaded for treason.
1719 - The Onderlinge van 1719 u.a., the oldest still existing life insurance company in the Netherlands is founded
1733 - Englishman James Oglethorpe founds the 13^th and final American colony of Georgia, and its first city at SavannahSavannah is a city located in Chatham County, Georgia. The population was 131,510 for the city (and 257,889 for the metropolitan area) in the 2000 census. It is located at latitude 32°5'0" North, longitude 81°6'0" West. The city is the county seat of Chat.
1737Events 12 February The San Carlo, the oldest working opera house in Europe, is inaugurated. Benjamin Franklin created the Philadelphia police force the first city-paid force. In Britain the Theatrical Licensing Act requires plays to be submitted to the Lo - The San CarloThe San Carlo is a famous opera house in Naples, Italy. It is the oldest working theater in Europe. The San Carlo was built by the Bourbon monarch Charles III of Spain who wanted to endow Naples with a theatre. The theater was inaugurated on the 4 Novembe, the oldest working opera houseAn opera house is a building where opera and other forms of performing arts are performed. Famous opera houses include: Argentina Colon Theater, Buenos Aires Australia Sydney Opera House, Sydney Austria Vienna State Opera Belgium La Monnaie (De Munt), Bru in Europe, is inaugurated.
1817Events March 4 James Monroe succeeds James Madison as the President of the United States of America April Earthquake in Palermo, Italy April 3 Princess Caraboo appears in Almondsbury in Gloucestershire, England July 4 At Rome, New York, construction on th - ChileThe word chile may also refer to Chilli pepper. The Republic of Chile is a republic located on the southwestern coast of South America. It is a long and narrow piece of land between the Andes mountains and the Pacific Ocean. It shares borders with Argentian patriotic army, after cross the Andes, defeat Spanish troops on the battle of Chacabuco
18181818 is a common year starting on Thursday. Events February 12 Chile gains its independence from Spain March 11 Mary Shelley's Frankenstein is published March 22 Easter Sunday falls on its earliest possible date. The next time Easter will fall this early: - Bernardo O'HigginsBernardo O'Higgins ( 20 August, 1778 October, 1842), South American revolutionary leader and first Chilean head of state supreme director 1817 23), who commanded the military forces that won independence from Spain. O'Higgins was born in Chillan, Chile. signs the Indepence of ChileThe word chile may also refer to Chilli pepper. The Republic of Chile is a republic located on the southwestern coast of South America. It is a long and narrow piece of land between the Andes mountains and the Pacific Ocean. It shares borders with Argenti near Concepcion, Chile
1825 - The Creek cede the last of their lands in Georgia to the United States government, and migrate west.
1832 - Ecuador annexes the Galapagos Islands.
1870 - Women gain the right to vote in Utah Territory.
1879 - At New York City's Madison Square Garden the first artificial ice rink in North America opens.
1892 - Former President Abraham Lincoln's birthday is declared a national holiday in the United States.
1909 - The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) is founded.
1912 - China adopts the Gregorian calendar.
1915 - In Washington, DC the first stone of the Lincoln Memorial is put into place.
1924 - Calvin Coolidge becomes the first President of the United States to deliver a political speech on radio.
1934 - The Export-Import Bank is incorporated.
1938 - Anschluss: German troops enter Austria.
1951 - Soraya Esfandiary Bakhtiari marries the Shah of Iran Reza Pahlavi at Golestan Palace in Teheran at age of 17.
1973 - Ohio becomes the first U.S. state to post distance in SI units on signs.
1973 - Vietnam War: The first American prisoners of war are released by the Viet Cong.
1994 - 1994 Winter Olympics open in Lillehammer, Norway.
1998 - The presidential line-item veto is declared unconstitutional by United States federal judge.
1999 - President Bill Clinton is acquitted by the United States Senate in his impeachment trial.
2001 - NEAR Shoemaker spacecraft touchdown in the "saddle" region of 433 Eros becoming the first spacecraft to land on an asteroid.
2002 - The trial of former President of Federal Republic of Yugoslavia Slobodan Milosevic begins at the United Nations war crimes tribunal in The Hague.
2002 - Nuclear waste: US Secretary of Energy makes the decision that Yucca Mountain is suitable to be the United States' nuclear repository.
2002 - An Iran Air Tours (subsidiary of Iran Air) Tupolev Tu-154 crashes prior to landing in Khorramabad, Iran, killing 119

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