Events in History
- Feb 4 J W Goodrich introduces rubber galoshes to public
Historic Event
Feb 10 Simón Bolívar named dictator by the Congress of Peru
- Feb 16 Athenaeum club founded in London
Birthdays in History
- Feb 3 George Thomas "Tige" Anderson, Brigadier General (Confederate Army)
- Feb 3 Nathan George "Shanks" Evans, American Brigadier-General (Confederate States Army), born in Marion County, South Carolina (d. 1868)
- Feb 3 Ranald MacDonald, Canadian-born Scottish educator and interpreter (d. 1894)
- Feb 7 William Higgins, discoverer (nature of spiral nebulae)
- Feb 8 Barnard Elliot Bee, American Brigadier General (Confederate Army), (d. 1861)
- Feb 10 Samuel Plimsoll, inventor (Plimsoll line for ships), born in Bristol, England
- Feb 12 Dayananda Sarasvati, Indian hindu leader, founder of Arya Samaj reform movement, born in Tantara, India (d. 1883)
- Feb 14 Winfield Scott Hancock, American politician and Major General (Union Army), born in Montgomeryville, Pennsylvania (d. 1886)
- Feb 16 Peter Kozler, Slovenian cartographer and geographer (d. 1879)
- Feb 17 William Farrar "Baldy" Smith, American Major General (Union Army), born in St. Albans, Vermont (d. 1903)
- Feb 22 Pierre Janssen, French astronomer, discovered helium, born in Paris, France (d. 1907)
- Feb 23 Herman N van der Tuuk, Dutch philologist (Tobasch' Grammar)
- Feb 23 Lewis Cass Hunt, American Brigadier General (Union Army), born in Brown County Wisconsin (d. 1886)
- Feb 24 John Crawford Vaughn, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), (d. 1875)
- Feb 26 Carlos Calvo, Argentine diplomat and human rights scholar (Calvo Clause)
- Feb 28 Charles Blondin, French acrobat and tight rope walker, born in St. Omer (d. 1897)
- Feb 28 John Creed Moore, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), (d. 1910)
Deaths in History
- Feb 8 Rhijnvis Feith, Dutch mayor/writer (Zwolle, Julia), dies at 71
- Feb 9 Anna Katharina Emmerick, Roman Catholic Augustinian Canoness Regular of Windesheim, Marian visionary, ecstatic and stigmatist, dies at 49
- Feb 20 Bogislav Friedrich Emanuel von Tauentzien, Prussian general of the Napoleonic Wars, dies at 63
- Feb 21 Eugène de Beauharnais, French military officer and stepson of Napoleon Bonaparte (son of Alexandre de Beauharnais and Joséphine Tascher de la Pagerie), dies at 42
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