Historical Events
- Feb 20 10 sleeping Indians scalped by whites in New Hampshire for £100 a scalp bounty
Famous Birthdays
Louis Mandrin
Feb 11 Louis Mandrin, French smuggler considered the French Robin Hood, born in Dauphiné, France (d. 1755)
Famous Deaths
- Feb 6 Johann Philipp Krieger, German Baroque organist and 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