1258
Closure of House of Wisdom
Collapse · Middle East
On this day
234 events in the atlas are dated to 12 February, from 1258 to 2026. The best known come first; below them is every one, age by age, the most significant first.
1258
Collapse · Middle East
1899
Treaty
1934
War
1993
Natural disaster · Europe
2009
Accident · North America
2014
Protest · South America · 2014 – 2026
Each event is listed under the date its sources give, as its page shows it. Before 1582, and in some countries later (Britain until 1752, Russia until 1918), that is a date of the Julian calendar, as on Wikipedia’s pages for each day.