On This Day: February 5th

Caesar Augustus is granted the title pater patriae by the Roman Senate.

The New Hermitage Museum in Saint Petersburg, Russia, one of the largest and oldest museums in the world, opens to the public.

Jean-Baptiste Bernadotte ascends to the thrones of Sweden and Norway.

Peninsular War: Siege of Cádiz begins.

In Calabria, a sequence of strong earthquakes begins.

A group of early Japanese Christians are killed by the new government of Japan for being seen as a threat to Japanese society.

Henry of Navarre abjures Catholicism at Tours and rejoins the Protestant forces in the French Wars of Religion.

Pope Clement IV is elected as the 183rd Bishop of Rome and head of the Catholic Church.

An Lushan proclaims himself Emperor of China, founding the short-lived state of Yan.

An earthquake with an estimated intensity between IX or X on the Mercalli scale occurs in Pompeii, Italy.