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This is a list of selected February 1 anniversaries that appear in the "On this day" section of the Main Page. To suggest a new item, in most cases, you can be bold and edit this page. Please read the selected anniversaries guidelines before making your edit. However, if your addition might be controversial or on a day that is or will soon be on the Main Page, please post your suggestion on the talk page instead.

Please note that the events listed on the Main Page are chosen based more on relative article quality and to maintain a mix of topics, not based solely on how important or significant their subjects are. Only four to five events are posted at a time and thus not everything that is "most important and significant" can be listed. In addition, an event is generally not posted this year if it is also the subject of the scheduled featured article or picture of the day.

To report an error when this appears on the Main Page, see Main Page errors. Please remember that this list defers to the supporting articles, so it is best to achieve consensus and make any necessary changes there first.

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Ineligible

Blurb Reason
Feast of St. Brigit of Kildare (Western Christianity) {{more footnotes}}
National Freedom Day in the United States refimprove
1662 – Forces under Chinese general Koxinga seized the Island of Taiwan from the Dutch East India Company and established the Kingdom of Tungning. {{refimprove}}
1796 – The capital of Upper Canada was moved from Newark to York, which was judged to be less vulnerable to attack by the United States. refimprove
1884 – The first fascicle of the Oxford English Dictionary, a 352-page volume that covered words from A to Ant, was published. {{Refimprove}}
1946 – As a result of a compromise between the major powers within the United Nations, Norwegian politician Trygve Lie was elected as the first UN Secretary-General. refimprove
2001 – The capital of Malaysia was moved from Kuala Lumpur to Putrajaya, although the government's legislative functions remained in the former Federal Territory. Putrajaya tagged {{refimprove}}
2003 – The NASA Space Shuttle Columbia disintegrated over Texas during reentry into the Earth's atmosphere on its 28th and final mission, killing all seven crew members. {{refimprove section}}

Eligible

  • 1814 – The most destructive eruption of the Mayon Volcano occurred, killing over 2,000 people on the island of Luzon in the Philippines.
  • 1972Kuala Lumpur gained city status, the first settlement in Malaysia to do so after the nation's independence from the United Kingdom.

February 1: Imbolc (Northern Hemisphere); Lughnasadh (Southern Hemisphere)

Jóhanna Sigurðardóttir

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