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What Happened in February 1798

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Historical Events

  • Feb 2 Federal St Theater, Boston, becomes 1st in US destroyed by fire
  • Feb 10 French army led by Louis Alexandre Berthier captures Rome
  • Feb 15 Louis Alexandre Berthier proclaim a Roman Republic after conquering Rome

French Occupation of Rome

Feb 20 French General Louis Alexandre Berthier forcibly removes Pope Pius VI from Rome during French occupation of Rome (Pope later dies a prisoner in Valence)

Pope Pius VI

Events in 1798

Famous Birthdays

  • Feb 22 Charles Mynn Thruston, American Brigadier General (Union Army), born in Lexington, Kentucky (d. 1873)
Born in 1798

Famous Deaths

  • Feb 6 Niels Schiørring, Danish musician and composer, dies at 54
  • Feb 12 Stanislaw II August Poniatowski, last King of Poland (1764-95), dies of a stroke at 66
  • Feb 13 Wilhelm Heinrich Wackenroder, German writer (Fantasies of Art), dies at 24
  • Feb 25 Louis-Jules Mancini-Mazarini, Duc de Nivernais, French diplomat and writer (b. 1716)

Famous People by their Chinese Zodiac Animal

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