Historical Events
Plan of Iguala
Feb 24 Agustín de Iturbide and Vicente Guerrero agree to the Plan of Iguala. States Mexico will become a constitutional monarchy, Roman Catholicism the official religion and that Peninsulares and Creoles will enjoy equal political and social rights.
Famous Birthdays
Elizabeth Blackwell (1821-1910)
Feb 3 English-American physician who was the first woman to receive a medical degree in the United States, born in Bristol, England
- Feb 10 William Read Scurry, (Confederate Army Brigadier General, (d. 1864))
- Feb 11 Auguste-Édouard Mariette, French Egyptologist (d. 1881)
- Feb 11 Hermann Allmers, German poet (Feldeinsamkeit), born in Rechtenfleth (d. 1902)
- Feb 15 Abraham de Amorie van der de Have, Dutch theologist and poet, born in Rotterdam, Netherlands (d. 1848)
- Feb 16 Heinrich Barth, German geographer and explorer (Central Africa), born in Hamburg, Germany (d. 1865)
- Feb 17 Lola Montez, Irish dancer and courtesan, born in Grange, Ireland (d. 1861)
- Feb 19 Francis Preston Blair Jr., (Rep-Missouri), born in Lexington, Kentucky (d. 1875)
- Feb 21 Charles Scribner, American magazine and book publisher, born in New York City (d. 1871)
Famous Deaths
John Keats (1795-1821)
Feb 23 English Romantic poet (Ode to a Grecian Urn), dies of tuberculosis at 25
