Feb 1 US Supreme Court convenes for 1st time (NYC)
Feb 11 Society of Friends petitions Congress for abolition of slavery
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Feb 18 Marshall Hall, English physician, physiologist and early neurologist (physiology of reflex function), born in Basford, Nottinghamshire, England (d. 1857)
Deaths in History
Feb 5 William Cullen, Scottish physician and chemist, dies at 79
Feb 20 Joseph II, Emperor of Holy Roman Empire (1760-1790), dies at 48
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