What Happened in February 1809

Historical Events

Feb 11 American inventor Robert Fulton patents the steamboat

Feb 3 German composer and pianist (Italian Symphony; Songs Without Words), born in the Free Imperial City of Hamburg

Feb 7 Frederik Paludan-Muller, Danish Romantic poet (Danserinden), born in Kerteminde, Denmark (d. 1876)

Feb 12 16th US President (Republican: 1861-65), born in Hardin County, Kentucky

Feb 12 English naturalist (Origin of the Species) who conceived the theory of evolution by natural selection, born in Shrewsbury, Shropshire

Feb 15 American inventor and businessman (mechanical reaper), born in Shenandoah Valley, Virginia

Feb 20 Albertus Jacobus Duymaer van Twist, Dutch Governor-General of Dutch East Indies (1851-56), born in Deventer, Netherlands (d. 1887)
Feb 20 Henry Walton Wessells, American Brigadier General (Union Army), born in Lietchfield, Connecticut (d. 1889)
Feb 24 Edwin Freiherr von Manteuffel, Prussian Generalfeldmarschall noted for his victories in the Franco-Prussian War, born in Dresden, Kingdom of Saxony (d. 1885)
Feb 25 George Washington Cullom, American Brevet Major General (Union Army), born in New York City (d. 1892)