Historical Events
The Solar Apex
Feb 1 English-German astronomer William Herschel announces the star Lambda Herculis is close to the solar apex
Great Siege of Gibraltar
Feb 7 Great Siege of Gibraltar, launched by France and Spain against the British colony during the American War of Independence is lifted after 3 years and 7 months
Famous Birthdays
- Feb 9 Vasily Zhukovsky, Russian poet (d. 1852)
- Feb 11 Jarena Lee, African American travelling minister (1st woman preacher in African Methodist Episcopal Church), born in Cape May, New Jersey (d. 1864)
- Feb 15 Johann Nepomuk Poissl, Bavarian composer, born in Rattiszell, Electorate of Bavaria, Holy Roman Empire (d. 1865)
- Feb 21 Fyodor Petrovich Tolstoy, Russian painter (VP: Imperial Academy of Arts 1828-68), born in St. Petersburg, Russian Empire (d. 1873)
- Feb 21 Princess Catharina of Württemberg, Queen consort of Westphalia (d. 1835)
