Historical Events
- Feb 15 Harmony Society is officially formed.
Famous Birthdays
- Feb 1 Auguste Blanqui, French revolutionary socialist (Blanquist movement and workers' leader), born in Puget-Théniers, France (d. 1881)
- Feb 3 Otto Theodor von Manteuffel, Prussian conservative statesman and Minister-President of the Kingdom of Prussia (1850-88), born in Lübben (Spreewald), Electorate of Saxony (d. 1882)
- Feb 4 Andreas Henkel, German organist, composer, and pedagogue, born in Fulda, Nassau-Orange-Fulda, Holy Roman Empire (d. 1871)
- Feb 4 William Harrison Ainsworth, English writer (Old St Paul's, Rookwood), born in Manchester, England (d. 1882)
- Feb 13 David Dudley Field II, American lawyer, law codifier, born in Haddam, Connecticut (d. 1894)
- Feb 13 Peter Gustav Lejeune Dirichlet, German mathematician (number theory), born in Düren, French Empire (d. 1859)
- Feb 18 Louis Malesherbes Goldsborough, American Rear Admiral (Union Navy during US Civil War), born in Washington D.C. (d. 1877)
Angelina Grimké (1805-1879)
Feb 20 American abolitionist, women's rights activist and suffragette (An Appeal to the Christian Women of the South), born in Charleston, South Carolina
- Feb 21 David Tod, US diplomat and politician (Gov-R-Ohio, 1861-63), born in Youngstown, Ohio (d. 1868)
