February 1

February 1 is the 32nd day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 333 days remaining until the end of the year (334 in leap years).

Events

  • 481 Vandal king Huneric organises a conference between Catholic and Arian bishops at Carthage.
  • 1327 Teenaged Edward III is crowned King of England, but the country is ruled by his mother Queen Isabella and her lover Roger Mortimer.
  • 1329 King John of Bohemia captures Medvėgalis, an important fortress of the pagan Grand Duchy of Lithuania, and baptizes 6,000 of its defenders
  • 1411 The First Peace of Thorn is signed in Thorn, Monastic State of the Teutonic Knights (Prussia).
  • 1662 The Chinese general Koxinga seizes the island of Taiwan after a nine-month siege.
  • 1713 The Kalabalik or Tumult in Bendery results from the Ottoman sultan's order that his unwelcome guest, King Charles XII of Sweden, be seized.
  • 1793 French Revolutionary Wars: France declares war on the United Kingdom and the Netherlands.
  • 1796 The capital of Upper Canada is moved from Newark to York.
  • February 1 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

    Jan. 31 - Eastern Orthodox Church calendar - Feb. 2

    All fixed commemorations below are observed on February 14 by Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar.

    For February 1, Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar commemorate the Saints listed on January 19.

    Feasts

  • Forefeast of the Meeting of our Lord in the Temple.
  • Saints

  • Martyr Tryphon of Campsada near Apamea in Syria (250)
  • Martyr Theonas, with Two Children.
  • Martyr Karion.
  • Venerable Peter of Galatia, hermit near Antioch in Syria (c. 403)
  • Venerable Vendemanius (Bendemanius), hermit of Bithynia (512)
  • Saint Anthony the Hermit, in Georgia (6th century)
  • Great-martyr Elijah of Heliopolis, (Elias the New, of Damascus) (799)
  • Saints David (784), Symeon (843), and George (844), Confessors of Mytilene.
  • Saint Basil I the Confessor, Archbishop of Thessalonica (862)
  • Saint Basil II the Synaxaristis, Archbishop of Thessalonica (c. 904)
  • Saint Timothy the Confessor.
  • Pre-Schism Western Saints

  • Martyrs Perpetua of Carthage, and the catechumens Saturus, Revocatus, Saturninus, Secundulus, and Felicitas at Carthage (202-203)(see also: March 7 in the West)
  • Podcasts:

    PLAYLIST TIME:

    February

    by: Dar Williams

    I threw your keys in the water, I looked back,
    Theyd frozen halfway down in the ice.
    They froze up so quickly, the keys and their owners,
    Even after the anger, it all turned silent, and
    The everyday turned solitary,
    So we came to February.
    First we forgot where wed planted those bulbs last year,
    Then we forgot that wed planted at all,
    Then we forgot what plants are altogether,
    and I blamed you for my freezing and forgetting and
    The nights were long and cold and scary,
    Can we live through February?
    You know I think Christmas was a long red glare,
    Shot up like a warning, we gave presents without cards,
    And then the snow,
    And then the snow came, we were always out shoveling,
    And wed drop to sleep exhausted,
    Then wed wake up, and its snowing.
    And February was so long that it lasted into March
    And found us walking a path alone together.
    You stopped and pointed and you said, "Thats a crocus,"
    And I said, "Whats a crocus?" and you said, "Its a flower,"
    I tried to remember, but I said, "Whats a flower?"
    You said, "I still love you."
    The leaves were turning as we drove to the hardware store,
    My new lover made me keys to the house,
    And when we got home, well we just started chopping wood,
    Because you never know how next year will be,
    And well gather all our arms can carry,




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