Here are 50 major events in world history that occurred on February 5:

1. In 249, Sima Yi launched the Gaopingling Incident, seizing control of Luoyang and the military and political power of the Cao Wei Dynasty.

2. In 1500, Italy recovered Milan from the French.

3. In 1649, the Scots proclaimed Charles II King of Edinburgh.

4. In 1661, Aisin Gioro Fulin, Emperor Shunzhi of the Qing Dynasty, passed away.

5. In 1722, Tsar Peter I of Russia abolished the system of the eldest son inheriting the throne.

6. In 1783, Sweden recognized the independence of the United States.

7. In 1799, British botanist John Lindley was born.

8. In 1840, the Maori chiefs in New Zealand ceded sovereignty to Britain through the Treaty of Waitangi.

9. In 1885, the "Free State of the Congo" was established, which actually became the private property of King Leopold II of Belgium.

10. In 1887, Verdi's opera "Otello" premiered at La Scala.

11. In 1900, J. Pierpont Morgan formed a steel company with assets of $1 billion.

12. In 1901, J. Pierpont Morgan acquired a steel company and became a steel magnate.

13. In 1912, the Daqing Bank in Shanghai was renamed the Bank of China.

14. In 1912, Chinese modern litterateur He Qifang was born.

15. In 1917, the constitution of Mexico was adopted.

16. In 1917, the "yellow international" was established.

17. In 1919, the Weimar Republic was born as the German National Assembly convened in Weimar.

18. In 1922, the American magazine "Reader's Digest" was founded.

19. In 1929, the Kuomintang government renamed Fengtian Province Liaoning Province.

20. In 1931, the Empire State Building in New York was completed.

21. In 1936, Charlie Chaplin's "Modern Times" premiered in the United States.

22. In 1937, President Roosevelt of the United States proposed increasing the number of Supreme Court justices.

23. In 1940, Glenn Miller and his orchestra recorded "Tuxedo Junction" for RCA Victor's "Bluebird" label.

24. In 1940, the 14th Dalai Lama was enthroned.

25. In 1941, Nazi Germany established a puppet regime in France.

26. In 1949, Mao Zedong, as the spokesman of the Communist Party of China, issued a statement on ordering the reactionary Kuomintang government to re-arrest Okamura Ningji and arrest war criminals of the Kuomintang.

27. In 1949, the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China instructed private factories to resume work.

28. In 1952, the People's Republic of China decided to participate in the 15th Olympic Games.

29. In 1952, the Chinese Committee for the Study of Script Reform was established in Beijing.

30. In 1957, the Central Experimental Opera House in China staged the classic opera "La Traviata" for the first time.

31. In 1958, Gamal Abdel Nasser was formally nominated to become the first president of the new United Arab Republic.

32. In 1962, French President Charles de Gaulle called for Algeria's independence.

33. In 1964, China successfully carried out its first autologous bone marrow transplantation.

34. In 1964, the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China called on all industries to learn from Daqing Oilfield.

35. In 1967, the Shanghai People's Commune was established.

36. In 1971, the astronauts of Apollo 14 successfully landed on the moon.

37. In 1974, Soviet chess master Spassky achieved a remarkable feat.

38. In 1983, the Nazi war criminal "Butcher of Lyon" Barbie was extradited to France.

39. In 1984, Su Yu, the "First Grand Marshal" of the People's Liberation Army, passed away.

40. In 1985, the land border of Gibraltar reopened after being closed for 16 years.

41. In 1985, the Conference of Forty Nations' Armies opened in Geneva.

42. In 1985, Cristiano Ronaldo, a Portuguese football star, was born.

43. In 1988, the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union rehabilitated Bukharin.

44. In 1994, the Qinshan Nuclear Power Plant in China was put into commercial operation.

45. In 1994, a shell hit a market in Sarajevo, killing 68 people and injuring about 200.

46. In 1997, Switzerland's three major banks established a humanitarian Jewish compensation fund.

47. In 2003, US Secretary of State Colin Powell presented evidence at the UN Security Council alleging that Iraq was hiding weapons of mass destruction, paving the way for the Iraq War.

48. In 2013, North Korea conducted its third nuclear test.

49. In 2014, Run Run Shaw, a famous Hong Kong entrepreneur and philanthropist, passed away.

50. In 2025, the content related to February 5 is being continuously updated and recorded in the long history.