Wednesday, 29 February 2012

Wednesday, February 29

Leap day (Gregorian calendar)

  • 1704 – Joint French and Native American forces destroyed the English settlement at Deerfield, Massachusetts, during Queen Anne's War, killing over fifty colonists.
  • 1720 – Unable to establish a joint sovereignty similar to England's William and Mary, Queen Ulrika Eleonora of Sweden abdicated in favour of her husband, who became Frederick I.

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