Educators' Calendar: United Kingdom

February 2021

31st January

31

1st February

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2nd February

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3rd February

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4th February

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5th February

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6th February

6

31st January

1st February

Oxford English Dictionary Published (1884)

First Computer Announced (1946)

Columbia Space Shuttle Destroyed (2003)

2nd February

Candlemas Day

World Wetlands Day

Ulysses Published (1922)

3rd February

Dr. Elizabeth Blackwell Born (1821)

Feb. 3-9
National Tinnitus Awareness Week

4th February

World Cancer Day

'Sri Lanka''s National Day'

George Washington First President of U.S.A. (1789)

Yalta Conference Convened (1945)

5th February

Prime Minister Sir Robert Peel Born (1788)

War Sweet Rationing Ended (1953)

6th February

Queen Elizabeth II Crowned (1952)

Feb. 6-12
National Bramley Apple Week

Feb. 6-12
World Orphan Week

7th February

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8th February

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9th February

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10th February

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11th February

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12th February

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13th February

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7th February

International Internet-Free Day

Safer Internet Day

Novelist Charles Dickens Born (1812)

The Maastricht Treaty Signed (1992)

Ellen MacArthur Set Solo World Sailing Record (2005)

8th February

Mary Queen of Scots Beheaded (1587)

Author Jules Verne Born (1828)

9th February

Lithuania Voted for Independence from Soviet Union (1991)

10th February

Treaty of Paris Signed Ending French and Indian War (1763)

11th February

Inventor Thomas Edison Born (1847)

Yalta Agreement Signed (1945)

Margaret Thatcher First Woman to Head a British Political Party (1975)

Nelson Mandela Freed from Prison (1990)

12th February

Chinese New Year

Red Hand Day

Naturalist Charles Darwin Born (1809)

First Jewish Refugee Children from Nazi Germany Arrived in Britain (1938)

13th February

Queen of England Catherine Howard Executed (1542)

'Strauss''s Blue Danube Premiered' (1867)

France Exploded Atomic Bomb (1960)

14th February

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19th February

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20th February

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14th February

'Valentine''s Day'

Gold Heart Day

15th February

Astronomer Galileo Galilei Born (1564)

Britain Started Using Decimal Coinage (1971)

16th February

World Read Aloud Day

Battle of Verdun Began (1916)

Kyoto Protocol to Control Climate Change Became Law (2005)

17th February

Madame Butterfly Opera Premiered (1904)

Last Classic VW Beetle Assembled (1972)

18th February

Pluto Discovered (1930)

19th February

Astronomer Nicolaus Copernicus Born (1473)

Phonograph Patented (1878)

Cyprus Granted Independence (1959)

20th February

Batman & Robin Comic Debuted (1944)

Mir Space Station Launched (1986)

Feb. 20-28
York Jorvik Viking Festival

21st February

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22nd February

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23rd February

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24th February

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25th February

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26th February

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27th February

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21st February

International Mother Language Day

22nd February

World Thinking Day

Brit Awards

Robert II Crowned King of Scots (1371)

23rd February

Naval Administrator Samuel Pepys Born (1632)

24th February

Author Wilhelm Carl Grimm Born (1786)

First Uranus "Flyby" (1986)

25th February

Pope Pius V Excommunicated Queen Elizabeth I (1570)

Feb. 25-33
Jewish Book Week

26th February

Bank of England Issued 1st pound (1797)

Novelist Victor Hugo Born (1802)

Radar First Demonstrated (1935)

Feb. 26-30
Eating Disorders Awareness Week

27th February

'15th Recorded Passage of Halley''s Comet' (837)

Poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Born (1807)

Feb. 27-40
Fairtrade Fortnight

28th February

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1st March

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2nd March

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3rd March

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6th March

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28th February

British Troops Left India (1948)

DNA Discovered (1953)

1st March

2nd March

3rd March

4th March

5th March

6th March

Month-Long Holidays and Events

National Heart Month