Events in History
Birthdays in History
- Feb 8 Maxime Du Camp, French writer/traveler (Les Buveurs de Cendres)
- Feb 9 Charles T Stork, Dutch industrialist
- Feb 13 Lev A Mej, Russian nobleman/poet
- Feb 16 Francis Galton, British anthropologist and geneticist (eugenics), born in Birmingham, England (d. 1911)
- Feb 16 James Patton Anderson, Major General (Confederate Army), (d. 1872)
- Feb 22 Adolf Kuszmaul, German physician (stomach pump, Kuszmaul disease)
- Feb 28 Matthew Duncan Ector, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), (d. 1879)
Deaths in History
- Feb 5 Ali Paşa Tepelenë, known as 'The Lion of Janina", Ottoman Albanian ruler, Pasha of Yanina (1788-1822), dies aged somewhere between 78-82
- Feb 10 Albert Casimir, Duke of Teschen and Governor of the Austrian Netherlands, dies at 83
- Feb 24 Thomas Coutts, Anglo-Scottish banker (Coutts & Co.), dies at 86
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