Historical Events
Music Premiere
Feb 28 George Frideric Handel's opera "Siroe, re di Persia" premieres in London
George Frideric Handel
Famous Birthdays
- Feb 12 Étienne-Louis Boullée, French architect (d. 1799)
- Feb 13 John Hunter, Scottish surgeon and founder of pathological anatomy in England, born in Long Calderwood, Scotland (d. 1793)
- Feb 21 Peter III, Kiel Germany, Russian Tsar (1762) and husband of Catherine the Great
- Feb 29 Robert Bage, English writer (Criticism by Peter Faulkner)
Famous Deaths
- Feb 12 Agostino Steffani, Italian-German diplomat and composer, dies at 73
Cotton Mather
Feb 13 Cotton Mather, American Puritan minister (Salem witchcraft trials), dies at 65
Cotton Mather