On This Day

What Happened in February 1847

Historical Events

  • Feb 4 1st US telegraph company established in Maryland
  • Feb 22 Battle of Buena Vista: US troops beat Mexican army

Victory in battleVictory in Battle

Feb 23 Battle of Buena Vista Mexico; Zachary Taylor defeats Mexicans

12th US President Zachary Taylor
12th US President
Zachary Taylor
  • Feb 25 State University of Iowa is approved
  • Feb 28 US defeats Mexico in battle of Sacramento

Famous Birthdays

  • Feb 2 Jules Francois Blasini, Curacaos pianist/composer
  • Feb 7 Ernst Franck, German composer/conductor
  • Feb 8 Hugh Price Hughes, Welsh social reformer, born in Carmarthen, Wales (d. 1902)
  • Feb 10 A N Hornby, cricketer (pioneering England Test batsman)

Person of interestThomas Edison

Feb 11 Thomas Edison, American inventor (lightbulb, phonograph, motion picture camera), born in Milan, Ohio (d. 1931)

Inventor Thomas Edison
Inventor
Thomas Edison
  • Feb 14 Anna Howard Shaw, American suffragette, born in Newcastle-upon-Tyne, England (d. 1919)
  • Feb 14 Maria Pia of Savoy, Queen of Portugal, born in Roal Palace, Turin, Sardinia (d. 1911)
  • Feb 15 Robert Fuchs, composer
  • Feb 16 Ludwig Philipp Scharwenka, German composer (Album polonaise)
  • Feb 25 John Watson, Canadian philosopher (Objective Idealism)
  • Feb 27 Ellen Alice Terry, British Shakespearean actress and director (Imperial Theatre), born in Coventry, Warwickshire, England (d. 1928)

Famous Deaths

  • Feb 15 Germinal Pierre Dandelin, Belgian mathematician (geometry), dies at 52
  • Feb 17 William Collins, landscape painter, dies

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