📅 Today in HistoryFebruary 3

Drogo of Hauteville is elected as count of the Apulian Normans during the Norman conquest of Southern Italy.

Ramon Berenguer III, Count of Barcelona, and Douce I, Countess of Provence, marry, uniting the fortunes of those two states.

Sultan Mehmed II inherits the throne of the Ottoman Empire.

Bartolomeu Dias of Portugal lands in Mossel Bay after rounding the Cape of Good Hope, becoming the first known European to travel so far south.

The Portuguese navy defeats a joint fleet of the Ottoman Empire, the Republic of Venice, the Sultan of Gujarat, the Mamlûk Burji Sultanate of Egypt, the Zamorin of Calicut, and the Republic of Ragusa at the Battle of Diu in Diu, India.

Battle of São Vicente takes place off Portuguese Brazil where three English warships led by navigator Edward Fenton fight off three Spanish galleons sinking one in the process.

Tulip Mania collapses within the Dutch Republic.

The House of Assembly of Barbados meets for the first time.

The colony of Massachusetts issues the first paper money in the Americas.

During the Battle of Fraustadt Swedish forces defeat a superior Saxon-Polish-Russian force by deploying a double envelopment.