What Happened in February 1807

Historical Events

Feb 3 A British military force, under Brigadier-General Sir Samuel Auchmuty captures the city of Montevideo in the Battle of Montevideo, then part of the Spanish Empire now capital of Uruguay (Napoleonic Wars)

Feb 8 Battle of Eylau ends inconclusively between Napoleon's forces and the Russian Empire, first battle Napoleon isn't victorious

Feb 9 Napoleon convenes "The Grand Sanhedrin", a Jewish high court, in Paris, gives legal sanction to the principles expressed by the Assembly of Notables
Feb 10 US Coast Survey authorized by Congress
Feb 19 British squadron under Admiral Duckworth attempts to force passage of Dardanelles

Feb 19 US Vice President Aaron Burr arrested in Alabama for treason; later acquitted

Feb 24 17 die & 15 wounded in a crush to witness execution of Holloway, Heggerty & Elizabeth Godfrey in England

Feb 1 William Bowen Campbell, American politician and Civil War Brigadier General (Union Army), born in Sumner County, Tennessee (d. 1867)

Feb 3 American military officer (senior officer in Confederate Army and United States Army), born in Farmville, Virginia

Feb 6 Hans Matthison-Hansen, Danish composer, born in Flensburg, Germany (d. 1890)
Feb 8 Benjamin Waterhouse Hawkins, English sculptor and naturalist, born in Bloomsbury, London (d. 1894)
Feb 10 Abner Clark Harding, American politician and Civil War Brigadier General (Union Army), born in East Hampton, Connecticut (d. 1874)
Feb 13 Bartolomea Capitanio, Italian teacher, co-foundress of the Sisters of Charity of Lovere, and saint, born in Lovere, Bergamo, Napoleonic Kingdom of Italy (d. 1833)
Feb 15 Ignacy Feliks Dobrzynski, Polish composer, born in Romanów, Russian Empire (d. 1867)
Feb 16 Lysander Cutler, American Brevet Major General (Union Army), born in Royalston, Massachusetts (d. 1866)
Feb 25 George Trenholm, South Carolina plantation owner, Secretary of the Treasury for the Confederate States, (d. 1876)
Feb 27 Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, American poet (Song of Hiawatha), born in Portland, Maine (d. 1882)

Feb 21 US President Martin Van Buren (24) weds high school sweetheart Hannah Hoes (23) in Catskill, New York

Feb 5 Pasquale Paoli, Corsican freedom fighter, dies at 80
Feb 6 John Reid [Robertson], British Army General, composer, and founder of the chair of music at the University of Edinburgh, dies at 85
Feb 18 August Gottlieb Meißner, German Enlightenment author who helped develop the detective story genre in German literature, dies at 53
Feb 18 Sophie von Laroche, German writer (History of Lady Sophia Sternheim), dies at 75
Feb 23 François Guichard, French guitarist and composer, dies at 61