Events in History
- Feb 2 Russian settlers establish Ft Ross trading post, north of San Francisco
Appointment of Interest
Feb 5 Prince George, Prince of Wales, later George IV, is appointed as Prince-Regent after his father King George III is recognized as insane due to mental illness
George III
Birthdays in History
- Feb 3 Horace Greeley, American founder and editor of the New-York Tribune ("Go west, young man"), born in Amherst, New Hampshire (d. 1872)
- Feb 6 Henry George Liddell, English lexicographer & father of the Alice in Alice in Wonderland, born in Bishop Auckland, United Kingdom (d. 1898)
- Feb 8 Edwin Denison Morgan, Secretary of War (Confederacy), (d. 1883)
- Feb 15 Domingo F Sarmiento, President of Argentina (1868-74), born in San Juan, Viceroyalty of the Río de la Plata (d. 1888)
- Feb 24 Daniel A Payne, Bishop/reformer/educator of AME Church
- Feb 24 Edward Dickinson Baker, American politician and Major General (Union Army), born in London, England (d. 1861)
Deaths in History
- Feb 9 Nevil Maskelyne, 5th Astronomer Royal of England (1765-1811), dies