Feb 4 Battle of Sinhagad, Shivaji commander Tanaji Malusare recaptures fort of Sinhagad from the Mugals, scaling the walls with help of pet monitor lizard
Feb 14 Roman Catholic Emperor Leopold I chases Jews out of Vienna
Feb 17 France and Bavaria sign military assistance treaty
Feb 27 Jews expelled from Austria by order of Leopold I
Famous Birthdays
Feb 10 Norbert van Flowers [Cephalus], Flemish painter
Feb 10 William Congreve, England, writer (Old Bachelor, Way of the World)
Feb 14 Georg Gabriel Schutz, German composer, born in Nuremberg, Germany (d. 1716)
Feb 28 Benjamin Wadsworth, American President of Harvard University (d. 1737)
Famous Deaths
Feb 9 Frederick III, King of Denmark and Norway (1648-70), dies at 60
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