What Happened in February 1824

Historical Events

Feb 4 J W Goodrich introduces rubber galoshes to public

Dictator Simón Bolívar

Feb 10 Simón Bolívar named dictator by the Congress of Peru

Military and Political Leader Simón Bolívar

Feb 16 Athenaeum club founded in London
Feb 20 First description of a dinosaur published - ‘Megalosaurus or great Fossil Lizard of Stonesfield’ to the Geological Society of London by William Buckland - the beginning of dinosaur mania [1]

Events in 1824

Famous Birthdays

Feb 3 George Thomas "Tige" Anderson, American Brigadier General (Confederate Army), born in Covington, Georgia (d. 1901)
Feb 3 Nathan George "Shanks" Evans, American Brigadier-General (Confederate States Army), born in Marion County, South Carolina (d. 1868)
Feb 3 Ranald MacDonald, Canadian-born Scottish educator and interpreter (d. 1894)
Feb 8 Barnard Elliott Bee, American military officer (US Army, 1845-61; Confederate Army, 1861), born in Charleston, South Carolina (d. 1861)
Feb 10 Samuel Plimsoll, English politician and social reformer (invented Plimsoll line for ships), born in Bristol, England (d. 1898)
Feb 12 Dayananda Sarasvati, Indian hindu leader, founder of Arya Samaj reform movement, born in Tantara, India (d. 1883)
Feb 14 Winfield Scott Hancock, American politician and Major General (Union Army), born in Montgomeryville, Pennsylvania (d. 1886)
Feb 16 Peter Kozler, Slovenian cartographer and geographer (d. 1879)
Feb 17 William Farrar "Baldy" Smith, American Major General (Union Army), born in St. Albans, Vermont (d. 1903)
Feb 22 Pierre Janssen, French astronomer, discovered helium, born in Paris, France (d. 1907)
Feb 23 Herman Neubronner van der Tuuk, Dutch philologist (Tobasch' Grammar), born in Malacca, Dutch Malaya (d. 1894)
Feb 23 Lewis Cass Hunt, American Brigadier General (Union Army), born in Brown County Wisconsin (d. 1886)
Feb 24 John Crawford Vaughn, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), (d. 1875)
Feb 26 Carlos Calvo, Argentine historian, diplomat and human rights scholar (Calvo Clause), born in Buenos Aires, Argentina (d. 1906)
Feb 28 Charles Blondin, French acrobat and tight rope walker, born in St. Omer (d. 1897)
Feb 28 John Creed Moore, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), (d. 1910)

Born in 1824

Famous Deaths

Feb 1 Maria Theresia von Paradis, Austrian blind pianist, singer, organist, and composer, dies at 64
Feb 8 Rhijnvis Feith, Dutch poet and writer (Zwolle, Julia), dies at 71
Feb 9 Anna Katharina Emmerick, Roman Catholic Augustinian Canoness Regular of Windesheim, Marian visionary, ecstatic and stigmatist, dies at 49
Feb 20 Bogislav Friedrich Emanuel von Tauentzien, Prussian general of the Napoleonic Wars, dies at 63