Historical Events
- Feb 20 10 sleeping Indians scalped by whites in New Hampshire for £100 a scalp bounty
Famous Birthdays
- Feb 4 Dru Drury, English entomologist (d. 1804)
- Feb 5 James Otis, American lawyer and patriot, born in Barnstable, Massachusetts (d. 1783)
- Feb 25 Karl Wilhelm Ramler, German poet (Geistliche Kantaten)
- Feb 26 Nicolas-Joseph Cugnot, French inventor who designed and built 1st automobile, born in Void, France (d. 1804) [or born September 25]
Famous Deaths
- Feb 6 Johann Philipp Krieger, composer, dies at 75
Peter the Great
Feb 8 Peter the Great [Pyotr Alexeyevich Romanov], Tsar of Russia (1682-1725) dies of uremia at 52
Peter the Great
