February1786

What Happened in February 1786

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Historical Events

Feb 13 Abraham Baldwin selected president of University of Georgia

Appointment of Interest

Feb 24 Charles Cornwallis appointed governor-general of India

General and Colonial Administrator Charles Cornwallis

Famous Birthdays

Feb 2 Jacques Philippe Marie Binet, French mathematician (d. 1856)
Feb 16 Grand Duchess Maria Pavlovna of Russia (d. 1859)
Feb 24 Martin W. Bates. U.S. Senator from Delaware (d. 1869)

Wilhelm Grimm (1786-1859)

Feb 24 German story teller (Grimm's Fairy Tales), born in Hanau, Hesse-Cassel, Holy Roman Empire

Wilhelm Grimm

Feb 28 François Arago, French astronomer, physicist and politician, born in Estagel, France (d. 1853)

Famous Deaths

Feb 20 Johann Wolfgang Kleinknecht, German composer, dies at 70
Feb 28 John Gwynn, English architect and engineer (b. 1713)

Famous People by their Chinese Zodiac Animal

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