Historical Events
Music Premiere
Feb 28 George Frideric Handel's opera "Siroe, re di Persia" premieres in London
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, German-born Russian Tsar (1762) and husband of Catherine the Great, born in Kiel, Duchy of Holstein-Gottorp (d. 1762)
- 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
Year of the Rat
Year of the Ox
Year of the Tiger
Year of the Rabbit
Year of the Dragon
Year of the Snake