On This Day

What Happened in February 1792

Historical Events

  • Feb 7 Austria & Prussia sign anti-French covenant
  • Feb 7 Domenico Cimarosa's opera "Il Matrimonio Segreto" premieres in Vienna
  • Feb 20 US postal service created, postage 6-12 cents depending on distance
  • Feb 21 US Congress passes Presidential Succession Act
  • Feb 23 Joseph Haydn's 94th Symphony in G premieres
  • Feb 23 Humane Society of Massachusetts incorporated (erected life-saving stations for distressed mariners)

Famous Birthdays

  • Feb 8 Caroline Augusta of Bavaria, queen of Hungary and Bohemia (d. 1873)
  • Feb 12 Ferdinand de Braekeleer, Belgian painter
  • Feb 19 Roderick Murchison, Muir of Ord Ross-shire, Scottish Geologist (Silurian system)
  • Feb 20 Eliza Courtney, English illegitimate daughter of Charles Grey and Georgiana Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire, born in Aix-en-Provence (d. 1859)
  • Feb 23 Istvan Ferenczi, Hungarian sculptor
  • Feb 27 Don Joaquin B F Espartero, Spanish adventurer/fieldmarshal
  • Feb 28 Karl Earnest Ritter von Baer, Estonian German embryologist

Person of interestGioachino Rossini

Feb 29 Gioachino Rossini, Italian composer (Barber of Seville), born in Pesaro, Italy (d. 1839)

Composer Gioachino Rossini
Composer
Gioachino Rossini
  • Feb 29 Karl Ernst von Baler, Russian naturalist (discovered human ovum)

Famous Deaths

  • Feb 23 Joshua Reynolds, English portrait painter (Simplicity), dies at 68


What Happened in 1792