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1 February 1793	France, UK, United Netherlands [French Revolutionary Wars (1792–1801)]	France declares war on Britain and the Dutch Republic.
1 February 1851	England [births and deaths]	Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, English writer, author of Frankenstein, dies in London, England (53).
1 February 1864	Austrian Empire, Prussia, Germany, Denmark [political events]	Austro-Prussian troops enter Schleswig in opposition to Denmark's incorporation of the disputed territory.
1 February 1895	USA [births and deaths]	John Ford (adopted name of Sean O'Feeney), US film director best known for his Westerns, born in Cape Elizabeth, Maine (–1973).
1 February 1908	Portugal [law and government]	King Carlos I of Portugal and the crown prince are murdered in Lisbon, Portugal, by republicans, and Prince Manuel becomes King Manuel II (–1910).
1 February 1917	Germany [World War I (1914–18)]	Germany announces its return to a policy of unrestricted submarine warfare in order to cut off the supplies sent to the Allies from the British Empire and the USA.
1 February 1931	[births and deaths]	Boris Yeltsin, Russian politician who was a prime force in the establishment of a new Commonwealth of Independent States to replace the USSR, born in Sverdlovsk (now Yekaterinburg), Russia.
1–16 February 1934	Austria [legislation]	Political parties are forcibly dissolved in Austria except for Chancellor Engelbert Dollfuss's Fatherland Front.
1 February 1946	Norway [international organizations]	The Norwegian Labour politician Trygve Lie is elected the first secretary general of the United Nations (UN), serving until 1952.
1 February 1949	UK [clothing and fashion]	Clothes rationing ends in the UK.
1 February 1961	UK [postal services]	The General Post Office introduces a recorded delivery service in Britain.
1 February 1990	Bulgaria [law and government]	The Bulgarian government resigns. On 8 February, a new all-communist government is formed, dominated by the reformed Bulgarian Socialist Party.
1 February 2003	[space exploration]	The US space shuttle Columbia explodes and breaks up on re-entry into the Earth's atmosphere. The crew of six US and one Israeli are all killed in the disaster.

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