Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/February 24

February 24: Independence Day in Estonia (1918); Flag Day in Mexico.

• 303 – Roman Emperor Diocletian's first "Edict against the Christians" was published, beginning the Diocletianic Persecution, the last and most severe episode of the persecution of Christians in the Roman Empire.

• 1582 – Pope Gregory XIII issued the papal bull Inter gravissimas to promulgate the Gregorian calendar, a modification of the Julian calendar in use since 45 BC.

• 1803 – In their ruling in Marbury v. Madison, the U.S. Supreme Court established judicial review in the United States.

• 1848 – Amid a revolt, French King Louis-Philippe (pictured) abdicated and escaped to England, leading to the creation of the French Second Republic.

• 1946 – Colonel Juan Perón, founder of the political movement that became known as Peronism, was elected to his first term as President of Argentina.