Portal:Schools/Selected anniversaries/February

February

• 1572 – Harrow School is founded under the Royal Charter granted by Queen Elizabeth I to John Lyon, a local farmer.

9th

• 2001 - American submarine USS Greeneville accidentally strikes and sinks the Ehime-Maru, a Japanese training vessel operated by the Uwajima Fisheries High School.

15th

• 1905 – Victoria, Australia's first state secondary school, the Melbourne Continuation School, opens with 135 girls and 68 boys. It now exists as Melbourne High School and Mac.Robertson Girls' High School

20th

• 1944 – The buildings of Thomasschule zu Leipzig in Leipzig, Germany are destroyed during Big Week or Operation Argument as part of the European strategic bombing campaign against the Third Reich during World War II.