Events in History
- Feb 13 Abraham Baldwin selected president of University of Georgia
Appointment of Interest
Feb 24 Charles Cornwallis appointed governor-general of India
Birthdays in History
Wilhelm Grimm
Feb 24 Wilhelm Grimm, German story teller (Grimm's Fairy Tales), born in Hanau, Hesse-Cassel, Holy Roman Empire (d. 1859)
Deaths in History
- Feb 28 John Gwynn, English architect and engineer (b. 1713)