Historical Events
Event of Interest
Feb 17 Charles Messier catalogs M83 (spiral galaxy in Hydra)
Charles Messier
- Feb 25 1st Bank of US chartered
Famous Birthdays
- Feb 1 Charles-Joseph Sax, Belgian music instrument builder of wind and brass instruments whose son invented the saxophone, born in Dinant, Wallonia, Belgium (d. 1865)
- Feb 12 Jan D Zocher Jr, Dutch garden architect (Vondelpark, Amsterdam)
- Feb 12 Peter Cooper, American industrialist, inventor and philanthropist (Cooper Union, steam locomotive), born in NYC, New York (d. 1883)
- Feb 20 Carl Czerny, pianist/composer (Schule der Virtuosen), born in Vienna, Austria
Famous Deaths
- Feb 16 Richard earl d'Alton, Austria general of S Neth, commits suicide at 58
