Template:On this day - February 29

Christopher Columbus

• 1504 – In Jamaica, Christopher Columbus, using his copy of the Almanach Perpetuum (Perpetual Almanac of the celestial movements) of Abraham Zacuto, manages to predict a lunar eclipse that same night, frightening the natives and persuading them to provide him with supplies.
• 1528 – Birth of Domingo Báñez, Spanish Dominican, philosopher and theologian (d. 1604).
• 1808 – French troops parading through Barcelona, Spain, in a military display along the Paseo de la Esplanada, treacherously seize the Citadel fortress and Montjuïc Castle.
• 1832 – The Constitution of New Granada is sanctioned, the national charter that governed the constitutional life of the Republic of New Granada after the dissolution of Gran Colombia.
• 1868 – Birth of José Ramón Lomba de la Pedraja, Spanish professor, researcher and critic (d. 1951).
• 1912 – The Rocking stone of Tandil (in the province of Buenos Aires, Argentina) falls and breaks into three pieces, probably in an act of vandalism.
• 1920 – Birth of Román Piña Chan, Mexican archaeologist and anthropologist (d. 2001).
• 1932 – Death of Ramón Casas, Spanish painter and graphic designer famous for his portraits of the social elite of Barcelona, Madrid and Paris (b. 1866).
• 1964 – At the door of his parents' house in Buenos Aires (Argentina), Raúl Alterman (32), a Communist Party activist, is shot dead in an antisemitic attack in reprisal for the capture of the Nazi criminal Adolf Eichmann on the outskirts of Buenos Aires in 1960.
• 2000 – Last leap day of the 20th century and of the 2nd millennium.
• 2004 – Death of Armando de Ramón, Chilean historian, winner of his country's National History Award (b. 1927).
• 2020 – Death of Mario Bunge, Argentine epistemologist, philosopher and scientist, naturalized Canadian (b. 1919).