1173
The Leaning Tower of Pisa (Torre Pendente di Pisa)
was constructed across 1173-1372 in three main phases interrupted by Pisan-Genoese wars.
On this day
February 15
Cities around the world keep their histories on dates. Here is what happened on February 15 across the 5 editorial events Pyflo has so far catalogued for this date.
5 events
4 centuries
5 countries
1886
Newport News Shipbuilding
is the wider largest US shipbuilding facility — currently employing approximately wider 25,000 workers across wider 220 hectares of wider waterfront facility at the wider James River mouth.
1898
Spanish-American War of 1898
Havana was founded in 1519 as San Cristóbal de la Habana — the Spanish moved the original site twice before settling on the current natural-harbor location.
1909
Santander
The February 15-16, 1941 Santander Fire was the largest urban fire in 20th-century Spain.
2013
The February 15, 2013 Chelyabinsk meteor event
was the largest meteor event recorded in modern history (since the June 30, 1908 Tunguska event, also in Russia) — a small asteroid approximately 20 m in diameter and weighing approximately 12,000-13,000 tons entered Earth's atmosphere over the Chelyabinsk region at…
Drawn from the Pyflo Atlas — an interactive timeline of 1,601 editorial events reaching back to 2100 BCE, each pin a deep link into a city's full story. Watch history play out on the map →