Historical Events
- Feb 28 1st US fire insurance joint-stock company organized, Philadelphia
Famous Birthdays
- Feb 1 Charles Lenox Remond, African-American orator and abolitionist, born in Salem, Massachusetts (d. 1873)
- Feb 5 Ole Bull, Norwegian violinist (d. 1880)
- Feb 8 Norbert Burgmüller, German composer, born in Düsseldorf, Germany (d. 1836)
- Feb 11 Loisa Puget, French composer, born in Paris (d. 1889)
- Feb 22 Holger Simon Paulli, composer
- Feb 28 Reinier C Bakhuizen van de Brink, Dutch historian
Famous Weddings
Napoléon Bonaparte
Feb 11 French leader Napoleon I marries 2nd wife Marie-Louise of Austria
Famous Deaths
- Feb 20 Andreas Hofer, Tyrolean innkeeper, drover and leader of the Tyrolean Rebellion against the revolutionary Napoleonic invasion during the War of the Fifth Coalition, executed at 42
- Feb 20 Johann Friedrich Kranz, German composer, dies at 57
- Feb 24 Henry Cavendish, British physicist and chemist (discovery of hydrogen), dies at 78
- Feb 26 Johann Ernst Rembt, German organist and composer, dies at 60
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Year of the Tiger
Year of the Rabbit
Year of the Dragon
Year of the Snake