Historical Events
- Feb 1 1st insurance company managed by African Americans, The African Insurance Company opens in Philadelphia
- Feb 1 Seville, Spain surrenders to the French without a fight
- Feb 1 US Population: 7,239,881, African American population: 1,377,808 (19%)
- Feb 4 Royal Navy seizes Guadeloupe.
- Feb 28 1st US fire insurance joint-stock company organized, Philadelphia
Famous Birthdays
- Feb 1 Charles Lenox Remond, African-American orator and abolitionist, born in Salem, Massachusetts (d. 1873)
- Feb 5 Ole Bull, Norwegian violin virtuoso and compsoer, born in Bergen, Norway (d. 1880)
- Feb 8 Norbert Burgmüller, German composer, born in Düsseldorf, Grand Duchy of Berg (d. 1836)
- Feb 11 Loïsa Puget, French opera and salon song composer ("À la grâce de Dieu"), born in Paris, France (d. 1889)
- Feb 22 Holger Simon Paulli, Danish conductor and composer, born in Copenhagen, Denmark (d. 1891)
- Feb 28 Reinier C. Bakhuizen van de Brink, Dutch historian (d. 1865)
Famous Weddings
Napoléon Bonaparte
Feb 11 French leader Napoleon I marries 2nd wife Marie-Louise of Austria
Famous Deaths
- Feb 20 Andreas Hofer, Tyrolean innkeeper, drover and leader of the Tyrolean Rebellion against the revolutionary Napoleonic invasion during the War of the Fifth Coalition, executed at 42
- Feb 20 Johann Friedrich Kranz, German composer, dies at 57
- Feb 24 Henry Cavendish, British physicist and chemist (discovery of hydrogen), dies at 78
- Feb 26 Johann Ernst Rembt, German organist and composer, dies at 60
Year of the Rabbit
Year of the Dragon
Year of the Snake
Year of the Horse
Year of the Goat/Sheep
Year of the Monkey