Events in History
Event of Interest
Feb 7 Henry Clay declares in Senate "I had rather be right than president"

Henry Clay
- Feb 12 Aroostoock (or "Pork & Beans) War: Boundary dispute between Maine & New Brunswick
Birthdays in History
- Feb 1 James A Herne [J Aherne], US playwright (Hearts of Oak)
- Feb 7 Nicolaas G Pierson, Dutch banker/Suriname premier (1897-1901)
- Feb 9 Silas Adams, American lawyer and politician (d. 1896)
- Feb 11 Josiah Willard Gibbs, theoretical physicist/chemist
- Feb 20 Benjamin Waugh, English social reformer who founded the National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children, born in Settle, North Yorkshire, England (d. 1908)
- Feb 22 Francis Pharcellus Church, American editor and publisher (d. 1906)