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On February 7, 457: Leo I becomes the Eastern Roman emperor.

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Leo I becomes the Eastern Roman emperor.

Leo I, also known as the Thracian, was Eastern Roman emperor from 457 to 474. He was a native of Dacia Aureliana near historic Thrace. He is sometimes surnamed with the epithet the Great, probably to distinguish him from his young grandson and co-augustus Leo II.

People

Born on February 7

Diego Aguado 2007– Spanish footballer (born 2007)
Alessandro Fontanarosa 2003– Italian footballer (born 2003)
Shedeur Sanders 2002– American football player (born 2002)
R. J. Hampton 2001– American basketball player (born 2001)
Jayden Campbell 2000– Australian rugby league footballer (born 2000)
Omar Marmoush 1999– Egyptian footballer (born 1999)
Nicolò Barella 1997– Italian football player (born 1997)
Anhelina Kalinina 1997– Ukrainian tennis player (born 1997)
Aaron Ekblad 1996– Canadian ice hockey player (born 1996)
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Pierre Gasly 1996– French racing driver (born 1996)
Tom Glynn-Carney 1995– English actor (born 1995)
Roberto Osuna 1995– Mexican baseball player (born 1995)
Riley Barber 1994– American ice hockey player (born 1994)
Nathan Walker 1994– Welsh-Australian ice hockey player (born 1994)
Javon Hargrave 1993– American football player (born 1993)
Chris Mears 1993– British diver (born 1993)
Sergi Roberto 1992– Spanish footballer (born 1992)
Ksenia Stolbova 1992– Russian pair skater (born 1992)

People

Died on February 7

Dafydd Elis-Thomas Welsh politician (1946–2025)
Tony Roberts American actor (1939–2025)
Li Wenliang Chinese ophthalmologist (1985–2020)
John Dingell American politician (1926–2019)
Albert Finney English actor (1936–2019)
Jan Olszewski 42nd Prime Minister of Poland from 1991 to 1992
Frank Robinson American baseball player and manager (1935–2019)
Richard Hatch American actor (1945–2017)
Hans Rosling Swedish statistician and public speaker (1948–2017)
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Tzvetan Todorov Bulgarian-French literary scholar et al (1939–2017)
Billy Casper American professional golfer (1931–2015)
Marshall Rosenberg American psychologist and mediator (1934–2015)
Dean Smith American basketball coach (1931–2015)
John C. Whitehead American civil servant (1922–2015)
Doug Mohns Canadian ice hockey player
Krsto Papić Croatian director and screenwriter (born 1933)
Harry Keough American soccer player (1927–2012)
Franco Ballerini Italian cyclist (1964–2010)

Timeline

Every February 7 on record

  1. 457 Leo I becomes the Eastern Roman emperor.

    Eastern Roman emperor from 457 to 474

    Leo I, also known as the Thracian, was Eastern Roman emperor from 457 to 474. He was a native of Dacia Aureliana near historic Thrace. He is sometimes surnamed with the epithet the Great, probably to distinguish him from his young grandson and co-augustus Leo II.

  2. 987 Bardas Phokas the Younger and Bardas Skleros, Byzantine generals of the military elite, begin a wide-scale rebellion against Emperor Basil II.

    10th-century Byzantine general

    Bardas Phokas was a Byzantine general who took a conspicuous part in three revolts for and against the ruling Macedonian dynasty.

  3. 1285 A synod at Blachernae convened by anti-Unionist Greek clergy condemns the former pro-Unionist patriarch John XI of Constantinople.

    Eastern Orthodox council rejecting church unionisation

    The Council of Constantinople or Council of Blachernae was an Eastern Orthodox council, convened in 1285 in the Blachernae Palace in Constantinople. Under the presidency of the Patriarch of Constantinople, Gregory II, the Greek Orthodox Patriarch of Alexandria Athanasius III, and Emperor Andronicus II Palaeologus, the council repudiated the Union of the Churches under the Council of Lyons (1274), and condemned the pro-Unionist patriarch John XI Beccus.

  4. 1301 Edward of Caernarvon (later King Edward II of England) becomes the first English Prince of Wales.

    Town in Gwynedd, Wales

    Caernarfon is a royal town, community and port in Gwynedd, Wales. It has a population of 9,852. It lies along the A4871 road, on the eastern shore of the Menai Strait, opposite the island of Anglesey.

  5. 1313 King Thihathu founds the Pinya Kingdom as the de jure successor state of the Pagan Kingdom.

    King of Myinsaing–Pinya (1265–1325)

    Thihathu was a co-founder of the Myinsaing Kingdom, and the founder of the Pinya Kingdom in today's central Burma (Myanmar). Thihathu was the youngest and most ambitious of the three brothers that successfully defended central Burma from Mongol invasions in 1287 and in 1300–01. He and his brothers toppled the regime at Pagan in 1297, and co-ruled central Burma.

  6. 1365 Albert III of Mecklenburg (King Albert of Sweden) grants city rights to Ulvila (Swedish: Ulvsby).
  7. 1497 In Florence, Italy, supporters of Girolamo Savonarola burn cosmetics, art, and books, in a "Bonfire of the vanities".
  8. 1756 Guaraní War: The leader of the Guaraní rebels, Sepé Tiaraju, is killed in a skirmish with Spanish and Portuguese troops.
  9. 1783 American Revolutionary War: French and Spanish forces lift the Great Siege of Gibraltar.
  10. 1795 The 11th Amendment to the United States Constitution is ratified.
  11. 1807 Napoleonic Wars: Napoleon finds Bennigsen's Russian forces taking a stand at Eylau. After bitter fighting, the French take the town, but the Russians resume the battle the next day.
  12. 1812 The strongest in a series of earthquakes strikes New Madrid, Missouri.
  13. 1813 In the action of 7 February 1813 near the Îles de Los, the frigates Aréthuse and Amelia batter each other, but neither can gain the upper hand.
  14. 1819 Sir Thomas Stamford Raffles leaves Singapore after just taking it over, leaving it in the hands of William Farquhar.
  15. 1842 Battle of Debre Tabor: Ras Ali Alula, Regent of the Emperor of Ethiopia defeats warlord Wube Haile Maryam of Semien.
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  1. 1854 A law is approved to found the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology. Lectures started October 16, 1855.
  2. 1863 HMS Orpheus sinks off the coast of Auckland, New Zealand, killing 189.
  3. 1894 The Cripple Creek miner's strike, led by the Western Federation of Miners, begins in Cripple Creek, Colorado, United States.
  4. 1898 Dreyfus affair: Émile Zola is brought to trial for libel for publishing J'Accuse...!
  5. 1900 Second Boer War: British troops fail in their third attempt to lift the Siege of Ladysmith.
  6. 1900 A Chinese immigrant in San Francisco falls ill to bubonic plague in the first plague epidemic in the continental United States.
  7. 1904 The Great Baltimore Fire begins in Baltimore, Maryland; it destroys over 1,500 buildings in 30 hours.
  8. 1940 The second full-length animated Walt Disney film, Pinocchio, premieres.
  9. 1943 World War II: Imperial Japanese Navy forces complete the evacuation of Imperial Japanese Army troops from Guadalcanal during Operation Ke, ending Japanese attempts to retake the island from Allied forces in the Guadalcanal campaign.
  10. 1944 World War II: In Anzio, Italy, German forces launch a counteroffensive during the Allied Operation Shingle.
  11. 1951 Korean War: More than 700 suspected communist sympathizers are massacred by South Korean forces.
  12. 1962 The United States bans all Cuban imports and exports.
  13. 1964 The Beatles land in the United States for the first time, at the newly renamed John F. Kennedy International Airport.
  14. 1966 The Great Fire of Iloilo breaks out in a lumber yard in Iznart Street and burns for almost half a day destroying nearly three-quarters of the City Proper area and Php 50 million pesos in total properties' damage.
  15. 1974 Grenada gains independence from the United Kingdom.

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