Historical Events Feb 12 Yves de Kerguelen of France discovers Kerguelen Archipelago, India Feb 17 1st Partition of Poland signed in Vienna by Austria, Prussia and Russia Famous Birthdays Feb 18 Giovanni Battista Brocchi, Bassano del Grappa, Italian Geologist Feb 22 Joseph Lipavsky, composer Feb 22 Karl Jacob Wagner, composer Feb 26 Caspar Fürstenau, German flautist and composer, born in Münster (d. 1819) Famous Deaths Feb 8 Augusta of Saxe-Gotha, Princess of Wales by marriage to Frederick, Prince of Wales, dies at 52 Feb 10 Joseph Wenzel I, Prince of Liechtenstein and general, dies at 75 Feb 18 Johann Hartwig Ernst, Count von Bernstorff, Danish statesman (b. 1712) 1771 History by Year 1773