Events in History
- Feb 3 Dutch North Sea coast floods
- Feb 5 Hannah Lord Montague of NY creates 1st detachable shirt collar
Election of Interest
Feb 9 House of Representatives elects John Quincy Adams 6th US president

John Quincy Adams
Birthdays in History
- Feb 15 Carter Harrison, Sr., American politician (d. 1893)
- Feb 22 Jean Baptiste Salpointe, second Archbishop of Santa Fe, born in Saint-Maurice de Pionsat, France (d. 1898)
- Feb 28 Quincy Adams Gillmore, American civil engineer, author, and Major General (Union Army), born in Lorain County, Ohio (d. 1888)