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What Happened in February 1728

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Siroe, re di Persia

Feb 28 George Frideric Handel's opera "Siroe, re di Persia" premieres in London

Composer George Frideric Handel

Famous Birthdays

Feb 12 Étienne-Louis Boullée, French visionary Neoclassical architect (design for Cenotaph for Sir Isaac Newton), born in Paris, France (d. 1799)
Feb 13 John Hunter, Scottish surgeon and founder of pathological anatomy in England, born in Long Calderwood, Scotland (d. 1793)

Peter III (1728-1762)

Feb 21 German-born Russian Tsar (1762) and husband of Catherine the Great, born in Kiel, Duchy of Holstein-Gottorp

Peter III

Feb 29 Robert Bage, English writer (Criticism by Peter Faulkner), born in Darley Abbey, England (d. 1801)

Famous Deaths

Feb 12 Agostino Steffani, Italian-German diplomat and composer, dies at 73

Cotton Mather (1663-1728)

Feb 13 American Puritan minister (Salem witchcraft trials), dies at 65

Cotton Mather

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