What happened on 27 February?

12 events from the Ever-When timeline, ranked by how much they mattered.

1. 380 Christianity becomes Roman state religion Theodosius I declares Nicene Christianity the empire's official religion.
2. 1933 Reichstag fire Berlin parliament building burned by Marinus van der Lubbe; pretext for the Reichstag Fire Decree suspending civil liberties.
3. 1531 Schmalkaldic League founded Protestant German states form defensive league against Charles V.
4. 2014 Russian annexation of Crimea Russia seizes Crimea from Ukraine in a foretaste of its 2022 invasion.
5. 1991 Liberation of Kuwait Coalition forces retake Kuwait City; retreating Iraqis are devastated on the 'Highway of Death'.
6. 2022 Zeitenwende speech Chancellor Scholz announces €100bn rearmament and end of decades of restrained defence policy in response to Russian invasion of Ukraine.
7. 1971 Rothko Chapel completed Mark Rothko's contemplative ensemble of dark canvases in Houston.
8. 1868 Benjamin Disraeli's first premiership Disraeli reaches the top of the greasy pole and loses the first election held on his own Reform Act.
9. 1968 Cronkite calls the war a stalemate Home from Vietnam after Tet, the most trusted man in America tells his evening-news audience the war can only end in negotiation, not victory. 'If I've lost Cronkite, I've lost Mid
10. 1860 Lincoln's Cooper Union speech In New York, Lincoln argues that the Founders meant to restrict slavery's spread; the speech makes the Illinois lawyer a serious presidential contender.
11. 1854 Schumann throws himself into the Rhine Tormented by hallucinated music, Schumann leaps from a bridge in Düsseldorf; rescued, he asks to be committed and dies in an asylum two years later.
12. 1710 Trial of Henry Sacheverell The Whig government impeaches a High Church preacher for a sermon attacking the Glorious Revolution settlement; London mobs riot for him and his token sentence brings the Whigs dow