Historical Events Feb 20 French minister of Finance, Chauvelin, resigns Famous Deaths Feb 3 Tommaso Ceva, Italian Mathematician (b. 1648) Feb 14 Charles Talbot, 1st Baron Talbot of Hensol, Lord Chancellor of Great Britain (b. 1685) Feb 20 Elizabeth Rowe, poet, dies Feb 28 Hercule Brehy, Flemish composer and organist, dies at 63 Jan 1737 History by Year Mar 1737 What Happened in 1737 The Rise and Fall of Mrs Mapp, the Bone-SetterDecember 22, 1737