What happened on 28 February?

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

1. 202 BCE Liu Bang founds the Han dynasty After defeating Xiang Yu at Gaixia, Liu Bang declares the Han dynasty.
2. 1928 Raman effect discovered Raman discovers inelastic light scattering — Nobel Prize 1930.
3. 1933 Reichstag Fire Decree The day after the Reichstag burns, President Hindenburg signs Hitler's emergency decree suspending civil liberties — the legal basis of the Nazi police state.
4. 1482 The fall of Alhama opens the war Answering Granada's seizure of the border town of Zahara, a Castilian force scales the walls of Alhama by night — a fortress a day's ride from Granada itself, which every relief at
5. 2002 2002 Gujarat riots After a train fire kills 59 Hindu pilgrims at Godhra, anti-Muslim violence across Gujarat kills over a thousand; Chief Minister Modi is accused of failing to stop it.
6. 1901 Born: Linus Pauling American chemist; won Nobel Prizes in chemistry and for peace.
7. 1986 Assassination of Olof Palme Sweden's prime minister is shot dead walking home from the cinema without bodyguards; the murder — still unsolved — ends Nordic innocence about political violence.
8. 1405 Tripartite Indenture Glyndwr, Mortimer and Percy agree to divide England and Wales between them — the rebellion's high-water mark.
9. 1525 Cortés hangs Cuauhtémoc Dragged along on the march to Honduras as too dangerous to leave behind, the last Aztec emperor — tortured after the city's fall to reveal treasure the Spaniards never found — is h
10. 1943 Telemark heavy water raid Norwegian commandos ski into a gorge, climb into the Vemork plant and blow up Hitler's heavy-water production without firing a shot — the war's most celebrated sabotage.
11. 2006 What You Know (T.I.) Grammy-winning King single.
12. 1947 February 28 incident A beating over contraband cigarettes in Taipei sparks an island-wide revolt against Nationalist misrule; troops sent by Chiang kill thousands of Taiwanese.
13. 1571 Montaigne retires to his tower On his thirty-eighth birthday Montaigne withdraws from public life to the round library tower of his château, its beams painted with classical maxims, to read and to write about hi