Events in Music
Music Premiere
Feb 20 George Frideric Handel's opera "Giulio Cesare in Egitto" premieres at the King's Theatre in Haymarket, London

George Frideric Handel
Birthdays in Music
- Feb 29 Eva Marie Veigel [La Violette], Austrian ballet dancer and wife of actor David Garrick, born in Vienna, Austro-Hungarian Empire (d. 1822)
Deaths in Music
- Feb 13 Francisco Jose Coutinho, composer, dies at 43