What happened on 28 February?

8 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. 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
4. 1901 Born: Linus Pauling American chemist; won Nobel Prizes in chemistry and for peace.
5. 1986 Assassination of Olof Palme Sweden's prime minister is shot dead walking home from the cinema without bodyguards; the murder — unsolved for 34 years — ends Nordic innocence about political violence.
6. 1405 Tripartite Indenture Glyndwr, Mortimer and Percy agree to divide England and Wales between them — the rebellion's high-water mark.
7. 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 that never existed — is hanged f
8. 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.