Historical Events
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
Gioachino Rossini
Feb 29 Gioachino Rossini, Italian composer (Barber of Seville), born in Pesaro, Italy (d. 1839)
- Feb 29 Karl Ernst von Baler, Russian naturalist (discovered human ovum)
Famous Deaths
- Feb 23 Joshua Reynolds, English portrait painter (Simplicity), dies at 68
